McCartney Times

At the Speed of Sound, released on March 25, 1976, is the lesser sibling in a suddenly stable two-album run for Wings that began with the previous year’s Venus and Mars.To this point, the only constants in Paul McCartney‘s post-Beatles amalgam were wife Linda McCartney and Denny Laine, formerly of the Moody Blues. The addition, however, of guitarist Jimmy McCulloch and drummer Joe English set Wings on a much smoother course through the decade’s midpoint. That comfy domesticity didn’t lead to music that challenged Band on the Run as Wings’ best album, but it emboldened McCartney professionally – and, to a degree, doomed this project.

Source: 40 Years Ago: Paul McCartney Relies Too Much on Wings for ‘At the Speed of Sound’