December 05, 1973. The third studio album of the British group Wings is released, called ”Band on the Run”. Published by the record company Apple Records . The album, Paul McCartney’s fifth after the separation of The Beatles, became one of the musician’s most successful solo works, reaching the top of the charts in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Spain and Norway, and contributed to revitalize McCartney’s solo career under the formation of Wings, created two years earlier for the recording of Wild Life.
It was also a critical success and defined by Jon Landau, editor of the music magazine Rolling Stone as “possibly the best album released by any of the four musicians who once called themselves The Beatles, with the possible exception of John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band”. In 2000, Q magazine ranked Band on the Run 75th on its list of the 100 greatest British albums of all time. In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine ranked the album 418th on its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
