Genre: Pop
Places I remember: Marbecks Records
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: What Do We Really Know?
Gear costume: Givin' Grease A Ride
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: What Do We Really Know?
Gear costume: Givin' Grease A Ride
They loom large in his legend (The Album Collection playlists): Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5
Active compensatory factors: Mike McCartney (real name Peter Michael McCartney) wanted to make it on his own terms away from his older brother, so he adopted the professional stage name McGear when he started in The Scaffold in the early sixties.
By 1974 he'd made one album with Roger McGough (Woman) and after ending his association with Scaffold/GRIMMS he put out this album with help from Paul and Linda McGear and members of Wings.
I have a soft spot for brotherly efforts (The Kinks, The Finn Brothers, Oasis et al). There's something special about the sparks that brothers generate when they collude/collide.
Paul contributes to most of the songs, produces, and plays on the album, but Mike does all the lead vocals and it certainly feels like a Mike McGear album, rather than a Wings album.
Leave It was an excellent single from the album.
Where do they all belong? I used to own a copy of Woman but sold it... may grab it again. I do love Mike's photographs and I have a copy of his book - Thank U Very Much (which has plenty of fab gear pictures of The Fabs and extended family).
Where do they all belong? I used to own a copy of Woman but sold it... may grab it again. I do love Mike's photographs and I have a copy of his book - Thank U Very Much (which has plenty of fab gear pictures of The Fabs and extended family).
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