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Wide Prairie is a posthumous compilation album by Linda McCartney, compiled by her husband Paul McCartney and released in October 1998, roughly six months after her death due to breast cancer. The idea for the album was inspired by a fan who wrote Paul McCartney inquiring about " Seaside Woman ", a song Wings released under the name Suzy and ...
- 1972–1980, 1987–1989, 1998
- 26 October 1998
- Linda’s Shyness
- The Album
- Putting The Album Together
Paul McCartney said the idea for the album was first mooted before his wife’s illness, following an encouraging letter from a young fan who wanted to hear a collection of her songs. In an interview with musician and family friend Chrissie Hynde, he opened up about the album and Linda’s reticence to release her music. “She was shy to release it all,...
The touching “The Light Comes From Within” was the last song Linda sang and recorded, and featured her 19-year-old son James McCartney on electric and acoustic guitar. Her work with Wings is represented through tracks such as the humorous “Cook Of The House.” The song, written by the passionate vegetarian, first appeared on the 1976 album Wings At ...
McCartney said that putting the final album together following his wife’s death was particularly tough, especially as the engineer Geoff Emerick, a friend and collaborator from his Beatles days, had also recently lost his wife to cancer. The pair called the studio time “tears and laughter” sessions and McCartney admitted he was frequently “crying i...
Wide Prairie is silly and exuberant, almost relentlessly so, but also deeply strange: Nearly every song is an exhaustive mini-medley of pop-song styles—music-hall oom-pah horns, country fiddles ...
Mar 16, 2022 · Wide Prairie is a posthumous compilation by Linda McCartney. The album is composed of songs recorded between 1972 and 1998, some of which were previously released while others are unreleased Wings era recordings. The idea for the album was inspired by a fan who wrote in inquiring about “ Seaside Woman “, a reggae song which Wings had ...
Oct 27, 1998 · Wide Prairie by Linda McCartney released in 1998. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
