Paul McCartney – Temporary Secretary (1980) In recent years, McCartney has returned to Letting Go onstage, with good reason: a relative flop on release, it is unfairly overlooked, the mid-tempo swampiness of Wings’ performance – they seem to be playing in a vast cloud of weed smoke – counterpointed by the jubilant brightness of the brass arrangement.
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But it found full flow on the highlight from last year’s McCartney III: the melody is characteristically polished, but it winds through tempo changes, lengthy instrumental passages, falsetto vocals and an acoustic coda. There is a sense that McCartney’s search for a latterday hit has occasionally made him dial down his penchant for experimentation. Paul McCartney – Deep Deep Feeling (2021) Photograph: Robert R McElroy/Getty Images 26. Give My Regards to Broad Street-era Macca, pictured in 1984. It has recently been rescued from undeserved obscurity, first by Erykah Badu, who sampled it on Gone Baby, Don’t Be Long, and by Harry Styles, who has frequently sung its praises.
But Back To the Egg contained Arrow Through Me, a rich, intriguingly serpentine take on McCartney in late-70s soft-rock mode. Wings went out the way they arrived: with a patchy, largely unloved album. Not even Macca was immune to the lure of disco – Goodnight Tonight even came out in an extended 12-inch version – although he characteristically adapted the genre to his own ends, rather than vice versa, mixing flamenco guitars, a charming, drowsy half-speed melody and abstract use of a vocoder.
You can see why the cheery thumbs-aloft philosophising and perky soprano sax of Listen to What the Man Said may have grated in the Britain of the three-day week, but – as so often with 70s McCartney – you can only gawp in wonder at the apparent effortlessness of its breezy, chugging melody. Wings – Listen to What the Man Said (1975)
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