Let Me Roll It

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"Let Me Roll It"
Single by Paul McCartney and Wings
from the album Band on the Run
A-side"Jet"
Released15 February 1974
RecordedSeptember–October 1973
StudioEMI Studios, Lagos, Nigeria
GenreBlues rock
Length4:47
LabelApple
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Paul McCartney
Wings singles chronology
"
Mrs Vandebilt
"
(1973) 		"Let Me Roll It"
(1974) 		"Band on the Run"
(1974)
Band on the Run track listing
9 tracks
Side one
  1. "Band on the Run"
  2. "Jet"
  3. "Bluebird"
  4. "Mrs. Vandebilt"
  5. "Let Me Roll It"
Side two
  2. "Mamunia"
  3. "No Words"
  4. "Picasso's Last Words (Drink to Me)"
  5. "Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five"

"Let Me Roll It" is a song by the British–American rock band Paul McCartney and Wings, released on their 1973 album Band on the Run. The song was also released as the B-side to "Jet" in early 1974, and has remained a staple of McCartney's live concerts since it was first released.

Origin

The song's title was inspired by a quote from

Beef Jerky".[2] DeRiso rated it as Wings' 7th greatest song.[2]

Alternatively, Rolling Stone's critic Jon Landau,[3] saw the song as a pastiche of John Lennon's sound, particularly the riff and the use of tape echo on the vocals. McCartney, however, didn't intend the song to be a pastiche of Lennon. He did say the vocal "does sound like John. ... I hadn't realised I'd sung it like John."[4][1]

The song has sometimes been described as an answer or response to Lennon's song "How Do You Sleep?", a stinging attack on McCartney on the 1971 Imagine album.[5] However, Philip Norman's authorized biography Paul McCartney: The Life, recounts that in 1972 – after the release of Imagine and before the release of Band on the Run — McCartney and Lennon met and "agreed that slagging one another off, on albums or through the music press, was stupid and childish." Norman quotes Lennon as saying that Band on the Run was "a great album".[6]

Live performances

"Let Me Roll It" was performed regularly by Wings during their

Back in the World), and Good Evening New York City.[8]

Personnel

According to author Bruce Spizer:[9]

References

Citations

  1. ^ a b c "Let Me Roll It". The Beatles Bible. 23 October 2010. Retrieved 18 July 2017.
  2. ^ a b DeRiso, Nick (27 April 2014). "Top 10 Wings Songs". Ultimate Classic Rock. Retrieved 10 January 2019.
  3. ^ Landau, Jon (21 January 1997). "Band on the Run". Rolling Stone.
  4. ^ McCartney, Paul, Band on the Run: 25th Anniversary Edition, disc two, track 14
  5. ISBN 9780313391729
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  6. ISBN 9780316327992
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  7. ^ "uncut.co.uk".
  8. ^ "BBC - Music - Review of Paul McCartney's Good Evening New York City". BBC.
  9. ^ Spizer 2005, pp. 174–175.

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External links
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