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Rating: "Band on the run"... probably the first "rock" album I ever listened to. To tell the truth, it was a cassette tape given to me by my parents, bought randomly for listening during the holiday trip. The title was perfect!
Since then, "La banda in fuga" has always accompanied me, with the tape's rustles first replaced by the crackles of the vinyl and then by the flashes of the CD laser, without ever losing that good taste of typically English melancholic joy, which can be appreciated years later with the same freshness in "The Year of the Cat" by Al Stewart.
The songs themselves are simple, perhaps even banal in terms of composition, but they can always be listened to with renewed pleasure every time you find this album on the shelf: no socio-cultural-political-civil commitment, no metal-prog-punk-reggae-fusion commitment... perhaps already in the album's title, Paul McCartney is telling us he wants to escape from any mystical and mythical attire of the last years with the Beatles.
It's back to making music, back to the fun of making and playing music... what more could you want?
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