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31 March 2008
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‘Wild Life’ is the fourth song and title track on Wings’s debut album. See more…
The song was inspired by a safari trip to Nairobi, Kenya, which Paul McCartney and Mal Evans took in November 1966. While there they visited the Amboseli National Park in Kajiado County.
We didn’t stand up for millions of causes and stuff, like conservation, but the first song we did saying something was ‘Wild Life ‘ and that just said that nature was all right. The wild state is a good state so why are we getting rid of it? Let’s not. The animals are in zoos, instead of just running, like they are supposed to. Once I was in a game park in Africa, just doing the tour through and there was a big sign at the entrance and it said, ‘All you people in motor cars, remember the animals have the right of way.’ I liked that. I like that somewhere the animals have right of way over you.
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12.15am
7 November 2022
Offline This is an interesting one for my “Musedar” detecting inspiration (or lack thereof), in that I’d conclude the song overall is not really inspired, but Paul’s singing — as it goes along escalating in screaming and the interesting melodic divergences he comes up with — is indeed inspired.
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15 February 2015
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Yeah, it definitely feels quite clunky and forced to me, but as usual his performance is interesting (he pulls out yet another voice from that bottomless bag of vocal tricks! Does he ever run out?)
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