Paul McCartney is
issuing a limited-edition 12-inch vinyl single on Record Store Day, April 20.
The record serves as a teaser for a full-fledged reissue of Macca's 1976 triple-LP live set,
Wings Over America, expected later this year.
It wasn’t issued as a single until 1976 when the live cut reached number
10 in the Billboard Hot 100. This Record Store Day twelve-inch
replicates a promo-only version issued to radio at the time and includes
short and long versions of the track in both mono and stereo mixes.
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Sad news from Fantagraphics editor Kim Thompson:
I'm sure that by now a number of people in the comics field who deal
with me on a regular or semi-regular basis have noticed that I've been
responding more spottily. This is because of ongoing health issues for
the past month, which earlier this week resolved themselves in a
diagnosis of lung cancer.
This is still very early in the diagnosis, so I have no way of knowing
the severity of my condition. I'm relatively young and (otherwise) in
good health, and my hospital is top-flight, so I'm hopeful and confident
that we will soon have the specifics narrowed down, set me up with a
course of treatment, proceed, and lick this thing.
It is quite possible that as treatment gets underway I'll be able to
come back in and pick up some aspects of my job, maybe even quite soon.
However, in the interests of keeping things rolling as smoothly as I
can, I've transferred all my ongoing projects onto other members of the
Fantagraphics team. So if you're expecting something from me, contact
Gary Groth, Eric Reyolds, or Jason Miles and they can hook you up with
whoever you need. If there are things that only I know and can deal
with, lay it out for them and they'll contact me.
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Kirby Dynamics spotlights some of the King's intense work on Captain America back in the 1970s. That's the era when I first discovered Kirby's art.
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I remember 1976. Probably because I wasn't hanging out with Paul and Linda McCartney and David Gilmour at the time.(via
Dangrous Minds).
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, which does sound like a good one. I listened to NPR's online preview last week.
