What's the difference between "Wings" and "Paul McCartney & Wings"?

Apple Music make this difference. Should I make it when I organise my music library?

 

Just fill it under Paul. There’s no real difference

 

It was Wings from jump but Paul was added to sell better then they went back to Wings. However unofficially most just say Paul McCartney and Wings for all.

 

more ego

 

And

 

Wings is a myth , an illusion , smoke and mirrors...
It' s Paul McCartney and a revolving door of musicians with Linda and Denny giving the appearance that it's a ' group '
File all albums under ' M ' for MCCARTNEY.

 

I know this is a stupid question, but how should I organize files marked "Wings", "Paul McCartney & Wings" and Paul McCartney? I have this OCD symptom where "Wings" and "Paul McCartney & Wings" really can't exist at the same time, but yet they do.

 

I've always thought of "Wings" and "Paul McCartney and Wings" as McCartney solo, with Linda being a Yoko substitute and a group of session musicians as backup.

 

I've never heard Paul say this directly, but I believe it started as just Wings, and when Wild Life didn't set the whole on fire in sales (by Paul's standards), it was probably suggested to add his name in front, which was that way for Red Rose Speedway and Band On The Run. After both of those albums were #1 albums, Wings was well known enough to drop Paul's name again. At least that's my theory. So it's one and the same, and debatable if it's really any different than Paul solo albums.

 

Actually, Paul wanted it to just be "Wings" - he resisted "Paul McCartney and Wings".

He only agreed to it because the suits pressured him. Wings didn't sell as well as hoped in 1971/72, and the suits thought that was because people didn't know P Mc = Wings.

He grudgingly agreed to make it "PM&W" - until 1973/74, when he topped the charts all over the place and changed it back to "Wings".

Which is where it remained until the band ended in 1980...

 

When I used a player that used sort tags, I had them sorted as “McCartney, Paul” and “McCartney, Paul and Wings.” They’d some up together, but with the Wings, etc. stuff pulled out from the others.

With the player I’m using now, they all just show up wherever they show up.

 

File under “M”.

 

All Paul. "M"

 

I had an employee that was dead set against filing Wings albums under McCartney and also he wanted the Young Rascals and the Rascals filed separately. Was sure we'd lose sales as some people might not know McCartney was Wings. Not sure if he was completely serious or just being a PITA for kicks. Left for school after a few months.

 

Tag the "Album Artist" as Paul McCartney, then tag "Artist" with whatever it's supposed to be. That way you can search them or sort them depending on your mood, while still grouping everything under one name. Easy. For physical copies you have to make a more difficult choice...

 

73-74 is when the records got better, so it's hard to point to a name change, it probably didn't hurt.

 

I have them in the order of release from McCartney to his recent album.

 

I'm with your employee. Wings and Paul Mc are two different "library catalog" entries. I'd say most people aren't savvy enough to make the connection and will look for whatever alphabet letter falls off the tongue first. Same with your other example.
Now, if he refused to bypass the word "the" in band names...then I'd say he was just being a PITA.

 

....couldn't have said it better. At best, Paul tried to make the illusion SEEM like reality. It didn't quite get there.

 

I was managing a store, not a library. If it meant that the couple people out of a hundred that didn't know that Wing's were McCartney's band, and had to ask for help, I was willing to take that risk. We filed the Young Rascals stuff under the Rascals, I doubt we missed much in sales. At least one manager had a Young Rascals header card that directed customers to the Rascals. Plus this was back when there were actually employee's on the sales floor, so again I doubt we lost much, if anything, in sales.

 

It was categorically "Paul McCartney and Wings" for one album, Red Rose Speedway in 1973 and one single, Live and Let Die.

 

Wings was a band, but after 'Wild Life' didn't sell well enough, EMI decided that putting Paul's name front and centre would help increase sales. After 'My Love' got to #1 in the US and 'Band On The Run' became a runaway hit album worldwide, they backed off.

 

Look at that label - Red Rose Speedway-Wings - followed by 'Paul McCartney and Wings' which looks like it was added as an afterthought. The back cover of the album even reads "Wings Fan Club" not Paul McCartney fan club!

 

Paul McCartney - The Family Way
Paul McCartney - McCartney
Paul & Linda McCartney - Ram
Wings - Wild Life
Wings - Red Rose Speedway
Wings - Band On The Run
Wings - Venus And Mars
Wings - Wings At The Speed Of Sound
Wings - Wings Over America
Wings - Rock Show
Percy "Thrills" Thrillington - Thrillington
Wings - London Town
Wings - Back To The Egg
Paul McCartney - McCartney II

 

I don't own any of them, so I am set.