Paul McCartney and Wings’ ‘Venus and Mars’ Videos Released
The videos are part of the 1975 album’s 50th anniversary reissue.
Two new Paul McCartney and Wings’ videos are now available on YouTube for the first time. The live videos of “Letting Go” and “Rock Show” have been recently remastered as part of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of Wings’ fourth studio album, Venus and Mars. The album’s special-edition reissue is now available today.
The videos for the Venus and Mars tracks were lifted from the band’s performances during the 1975 “Wings Over The World” tour, featuring Paul and Linda McCartney, Denny Laine, Jimmy McCulloch, and Joe English. The videos showcase energetic renditions of the songs, along with brief clips of the McCartney couple heading on the tour bus and the audience bursting with applause.
Venus and Mars, originally released in 1975, includes the Billboard No. 1 single “Listen To What The Man Said” and “Letting Go,” the latter of which remains a fan favorite in Paul McCartney’s live sets. Venus and Mars, following the chart-topping 1973 album Band on the Run, hit No. 1 on the album charts in both the U.S. and the U.K. and sold over four million copies worldwide.
The album’s new reissue is a half-speed master edition cut from the original 1975 master tapes by renowned Abbey Road engineer Miles Showell. It’s also available in Dolby ATMOS for the first time, newly mixed by Giles Martin and Steve Orchard. The collection also features two posters featuring photography from Aubrey Powell and Sylvia de Swaan, as well as the original Hipgnosis-designed album artwork in a gatefold sleeve.
Venus and Mars’ 50th-anniversary celebration continues with Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run, authored by the former Beatle. Hitting shelves on November 4, the book is a first-person account and oral history of the band’s successes in its 11-year history. It was put together from dozens of hours of interviews with McCartney and those closely connected with the band. McCartney worked with editor and historian Ted Widmer, who also wrote the book’s introduction.
