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65: Wings Greatest - David Quantick

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Arts, Performing Arts, Music, Music Commentary

4.8467 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Emmy Award winning screenwriter and author, David Quantick discusses Paul McCartney's 1978 retrospective - Wings Greatest - with Chris Shaw

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0:00.0

One, two, three, four.

0:04.0

One, two, three, four.

0:06.0

Ah! Hello and welcome to I am the Eggpot with me Chris Shaw.

0:35.7

The Egg Pots take a jaunty stroll through Pepperland,

0:38.2

discussing the Beatles and solo Beatle albums with a potpoury of delicious guests.

0:42.3

In this episode, it's welcome return to a friend of the podcast, David Quantick.

0:46.6

Hi, Chris, how's it going?

0:47.9

Awesome. How about you?

0:49.3

Excellent. Yeah, never better. Never better. It's another beetle-related day.

0:54.9

The last thing I saw Paul McCartney had posted a picture of a wall-in-set pillar box,

1:00.1

and the world is crazy with excitement.

1:02.9

It's more like we've got some stamps on the way, apparently.

1:06.0

Oh, nice. Good, because we had Queen, and that was terrible.

1:09.5

What's the point of a stamp we Queen on? So it's about time we had Queen and that was terrible. What's the point of a stamp we're Queen on?

1:11.6

So it's about time we had Paul and all the Beatles.

1:15.5

Absolutely. First class. So the album that you picked today is the 1978 compilation, Wings Greatest.

1:22.4

So why have you picked this one?

1:24.3

I picked it because, well, A, I really love it. B, I had a little superstition about it for years.

1:29.9

Every time I moved flat, which was often in the olden days, whenever I set up my record player,

1:35.8

as we called them then, I would always use this record as the first play. I don't know why. It wasn't

1:41.2

that good for testing stereo, but I liked it, and it just became a habit.

1:46.2

Then, with the age of downloads, I parted company with it. You know, there's so many compilations.

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