It means something to me when I do it, and it means something to the record buyer, but if I’m asked to analyze it I can’t really explain what it is. Paul McCartney, Paul McCartney: In His Own Words The people change the names if they don’t like them. Then there was one called Brown Megs, named after a Capitol executive. We’ve had some great names, there was one puppy called Golden Molasses. What we do is if either of the dogs we have has a litter, we try to keep them for the puppy stage, so we get the best bit of them, and then when they get a bit unmanageable we ask people if they want to have a puppy. So we worked out it must have been a black Labrador. She proceeded to walk into the garage and have this litter… Seven little black puppies, perfect little black Labradors, and she’s not black, she’s tan. She must have met up with some big black Labrador or something. She’d go out on the town for the evening, like Lady And The Tramp. We have a big wall around our house in London, and she wouldn’t stay in, she always used to jump the wall.
She was a bit of a wild dog, a wild girl who wouldn’t stay in. We bought her along a roadside in a little pet shop, out in the country one day. We’ve got a Labrador puppy who is a runt, the runt of a litter. I remember Richard and Karen Carpenter ringing me up to tell me about ‘Jet’ – they were like the last people on Earth I thought who’d like ‘Jet’! But they were like, ‘Oh, great record, man!’ So, you know, it was actually resonating with people. - Paul McCartney, Clash Paul McCartney has since said that the soft rock band The Carpenters were fans of “ Jet“.
Writer Graham Reid has described it as a power pop “ gem“. He referred to it as a “ grand pop confection” that represented the only time McCartney approached the “ drive and density” of his tenure with the Beatles. Prominent music critic Dave Marsh named the song number 793 in his list of the 1001 greatest singles ever made. “ Jet” has been released on multiple compilation albums, including Wings Greatest (1978) and All the Best! (1987). When first released, in America the single’s B-side was “ Mamunia“, another track from Band on the Run, but it was soon replaced with the British B-side. The single was backed with “ Let Me Roll It” in Britain. The single was a Top 10 hit for Paul McCartney and Wings, peaking at number 7 in both America and Britain. “ Jet” was released as the debut single from Band on the Run in January 1974 (although in some countries, the Non-UK/US single “ Mrs. A closer listening reveals the Moog is used for the bass line during the verse and is simply Linda holding the root note. Instrumentation used in the song includes electric guitars, bass, Moog, drums, piano, horns and strings. Whereas most of the Band on the Run album was recorded in Lagos, Nigeria, “ Jet” was recorded entirely at EMI Studios in London after the group’s return (according to engineer Geoff Emerick in his book Here, There and Everywhere). The song’s use of the word “ suffragette” was described by McCartney as “ crazy” and “ silly“, not having any deep inspiration. However, in a 2010 interview on the UK television channel ITV1 for the program Wings: Band on the Run (to promote the November 2010 CD/DVD re-release of the album) McCartney explained that Jet was the name of a pony he had owned, although many of the lyrics bore little relation to the subject indeed, the true meaning of the lyrics has defied all attempts at decryption. McCartney has also substantiated this claim. Reviewers have reported that the subject of the song is McCartney’s Labrador Retriever dog named “ Jet“. It has been released on numerous compilation albums, and has since become one of the band’s most well-known tracks.Īlong with “ Helen Wheels” and “ Junior’s Farm“, “ Jet” is another McCartney song where his primary inspiration for composing the song arose in daily life. The song peaked at number 7 in both the British and American charts on 30 March 1974, also charting in multiple countries in Europe.
Supposedly written about a jet black Labrador that McCartney owned, the song was the first British and American single to be released from the album. “ Jet” is a song by Paul McCartney and Wings from their album Band on the Run.
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