Wings Over America Turns Forty

To honor the 40th anniversary of the Wings Over America tour -- which began in Fort Worth -- the former Wings guitarist is bring his own band into the Dosey Doe Big Barn in The Woodlands on May 7th. That night, they'll perform the Band on the Run album in its entirety. Denny Laine on how Paul McCartney and the rest of Wings began to realize Band on the Run was going to be a very special album "We came back to London and started doing the overdubs. And people would come in and say, 'Oh, I like that.' And George [Martin] would stick some strings on something and, 'Oh yeah! Now that's coming alive.' But, it's really the way it built. It was like building a house and as soon as it got to the top, it was starting to look like a house. That's when we realized, 'Ah, this is going to be something else, you know'." Denny Laine says the crowds at the Wings Over America tour were enthusiastic. "The crowd reaction was always the same. Sighs. Kind of like wherever you were, you felt you was in the same place. I never really got to see the show 'cause I was on the stage. But, you know, when you see some of the footage, you think, 'Oh, that's how they saw it.' But you know, you always miss what the audience is going through when you are the person on the stage." Denny Laine on the benefit of touring for Wings. "It got the band very tight, which is the first thing that I like. 'Cause any band takes a while. That's why Wings took a long time. You can't be great overnight... It takes a lot of live work."