Paul McCartney and Wings may hardly have been hotter when their second single from the Venus and Mars album, “Letting Go,” entered the Billboard Scorching 100 for the week of October 4, 1976.
Each the LP itself and its first single, the jaunty, feelgood monitor “Listen To What The Man Said,” had topped the US chart. The album had additionally gone to No.1 within the UK and several other different European international locations. By now, the band had been on the mammoth Wings Over The World tour, which stretched throughout the globe over some 14 months and spawned the triple stay album Wings Over America, in addition to a film launch and TV movie.
‘Vaguely ominous’
“Letting Go” was one of many first songs recorded for Venus and Mars, recorded at Abbey Street Studios with Geoff Britton throughout his quick tenure as drummer. Written, as was the entire album, by Paul and his spouse Linda, the brooding monitor was in nice distinction to its upbeat predecessor as a single. Billboard’s assessment picked up on the monitor’s “vaguely ominous minor chord progression.”
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Though it was the best new entry on that American chart at No.74, the Capitol single ran out of steam at No.39, simply three weeks later. Within the UK, it peaked simply the opposite facet of the Prime 40, at No.41. The third single from the album, the medley of “Venus and Mars/Rock Show,” fared significantly higher, hitting No.12 within the US.
“Letting Go” has continued to characteristic in McCartney’s stay set, and in 2014, it was coated by Coronary heart for the varied artists tribute album The Artwork Of McCartney. A beforehand unreleased mixture of the tune was made obtainable as a free obtain through his web site the identical yr, after a radio debut on BBC 6 Music.
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