# Talk to me about (Paul McCartney's) Wings

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 24, 2019, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-to-me-about-paul-mccartneys-wings/832979 "2019-04-24T05:43:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2019, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-to-me-about-paul-mccartneys-wings/832979/61 "2019-05-11T00:03:29Z")

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> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#):
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> Born in late 1960. I remember Wings not being taken particularly seriously. “His _wife_ is on keys? What do you bet the roadies never plug her in?”
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> As a solid teenage John Man, I thought albums like **Walls and Bridges** and **Mind Games** were miles above anything Paul was cranking out in the mid ‘70s. George was doing better stuff, too: see “This Song” and “Crackerbox Palace.”

Not taken seriously by whom? The critics? You and your friends? I’ll tell you who did take them seriously: the fans. Wings were fucking HUGE! 😉 🙂

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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2019, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-to-me-about-paul-mccartneys-wings/832979/62 "2019-05-11T00:10:53Z")

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He loved that woman-That’s why she was on stage, and I never had a problem with that.

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