Michael, great to get your take on Denny’s importance to Wings. His consistent presence throughout their career (and all of his key contributions) gave them further credibility. He was stable, loyal, and one of the great utility players of 70s arena rock. I always enjoyed when he took center stage during the Rockshow concert film and his songs always lent further depth and variety to the Wings albums, which somehow keep aging better and better for me with time. He will be missed. Btw, thanks for the mention. So glad you changed your mind, esp as a huge fellow Wings fan! ❤

@MichaelNoland-TheBottomLine

7 ай бұрын

You know, this was one of the easiest videos I ever filmed Bruce! And that’s because I am such a huge McCartney & Wings fan, I have read almost every single book published about them more than once! All I had to do was belt out the facts through general memory brother! Denny was always as important to Wings as McCartney himself in my estimation, and as proof, when he was out, so was Wings! Always Glad to mention you Bruce! BTW every body I have a link to Bruces video on Denny Laine in my description box!❤❤❤

@BruceColon-BSides

7 ай бұрын

@@MichaelNoland-TheBottomLine Thanks again, Michael! Like you, I also found it easy to speak from the heart and memory about Denny. As you said, it wasn’t about views, but about paying respects to someone who really deserved it. 🙏🏼

@MichaelNoland-TheBottomLine

7 ай бұрын

Well said my freind, and that’s exactly why I always have enjoyed your videos brother! You and I still need to cover Wings. Let me see what I can do about the know how brother! I’ll email you soon! Let’s do something that will show up on both of our channels! 😉👌🏆

@BruceColon-BSides

7 ай бұрын

@@MichaelNoland-TheBottomLine Sounds good. Look forward to it. 👐

Well said Michael !!!! Denny Laine was a VERY talented musician. Multi instrumentalist. Vocals, harmony vocals, guitar, lead guitar, organ, piano, bass guitar, synthesiser, percussion. His contribution to Wings cannot be understated!! He also contributed far more to the songwriting & arranging than people realise. And his signature song "Go Now" - his vocals are just something else. R.I.P. Denny, a fabulous musician!!

@MichaelNoland-TheBottomLine

7 ай бұрын

So amen to all you say here Tiger! It’’s time for a Denny Laine documentary I think! He is historically significant brother! ❤❤❤

@rickmontgomery3037

7 ай бұрын

Well said and totally agree...

Denny Laine deserves more credit, respect, and compensation for his contributions to modern musicology; especially his work with The Moody Blues and Wings. Sleep In Heavenly Peace

@stevenmaginnis1965

7 ай бұрын

I'm not sure . . . is Denny Laine a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee as a member of the Moody Blues?

@MichaelNoland-TheBottomLine

7 ай бұрын

Amen Marc! ❤❤❤

@gerrylambert5225

7 ай бұрын

He just got it in this video

I agree, Michael, 'Venus and Mars is a vastly underrated album. I will be listening to the fabulous 'Wings Over America' in honour of Denny.

Denny will certainly be missed. Sadly, with Denny’s passing, only Paul and Joe English are the last two Wings members from the classic 75/76 tour/era.

@MichaelNoland-TheBottomLine

7 ай бұрын

Yes indeed, and my favorite line-up as well 48! ❤❤❤

Wings started out as a quartet, with Paul, Linda, Denny Laine and Denny Seiwell. Three-fourths of the original lineup made it all the way to the end of the 1970s.

Denny was a great foil for Paul. Spirits of Ancient Egypt, Deliver Your Children and Time to Hide were some of my favourite Wings songs. RIP Denny. It’s been a busy time for the grim reaper. Shane MacGowan Myles Goodwyn Denny Laine You’ll all be missed. 🤘😔🤘

@MichaelNoland-TheBottomLine

7 ай бұрын

Nice memorial thought here Ilabelle! Thank you. ❤❤❤🏆

I adore The Beatles, and I’ve always found Wings’ music to be like comfort food. Just makes you feel great from the inside out. Thank you, Denny.

@MichaelNoland-TheBottomLine

7 ай бұрын

Amen Chris! ❤❤❤

A wonderful and heartfelt tribute to Denny. RIP 🇬🇧

Very well said Michael. Truly sad to hear of his passing. There is something to be said about a truly talented person who understands his position and HUMBLY gives it one hundred and ten percent every time. Paul was extremely lucky to have him. Rest in Peace Denny

@MichaelNoland-TheBottomLine

7 ай бұрын

You know Steven, he is still right there on those amazing Wings albums! The proof is always in the pudding! ❤❤❤

Hi Michael. I loved Denny. He was great with The Moody Blues. "Go Now", "Lose Your Money (Lose Your Mind)". A talented musician. I met him and befriended him over the years. We talked with each other about "Children Children" from "London Town". One of my favorites. "Venus and Mars" is so underrated. Love the whole record. "Junior's Farm" is a masterpiece. He had an album called "Ahhh...Laine". "Spirits of Ancient Egypt" is great. Keep up the good work, buddy.

@MichaelNoland-TheBottomLine

7 ай бұрын

Well said Nick! And I’m jealous! Denny was IMHO as much Wings as Sir Paul, and it is truly a sad day for Wings fans everywhere brother! ❤❤❤

denny laine will be missed. denny stayed with wings till the end.

Great tribute. He was such a talented musician, songwriter and singer. Rest in peace, Denny!

This year has taken so many rockers from us. RIP Denny.

I loved Denny Laine. At age 14 I was a huge fan of Wings but I had no idea who he was at the time. All I knew was I loved his voice and some of his songs gave Paul's a run for the money. My first concert was Wings in 1976. That was the first time I heard "Go Now" and thought it was a new song from an upcoming album, lol. "Children, Children", "Deliver Your Children", "Again and Again and Again", "Spirits of Ancient Egypt", all great tunes!

@MichaelNoland-TheBottomLine

7 ай бұрын

Amazing tale here Dr Music! Thanx for sharing especially here on this video! So many amazing stories already in the chat! ❤❤❤

Denny Laine also played on Tug of War and Pipes of Peace after the end of Wings. So, they were still working together as late as 1983. Denny Laine was in our ears and in our eyes. RIP.

It is thanks to Mull of Kintyre that I started my musical journey and I know that Denny Laine was decisive in bringing that song about. Indeed I didn't realise that Paul McCartney was part of this supergroup called the Beatles. I think Denny Laine helped Paul settle down as an Ex-Beatle. By-the-Way, that Paul does more Beatles nowadays I think is due to him ageing. RIP Denny Laine, thank you!

Michael - thank you for honoring Denny Laine - as a teenager - I wanted to be Denny Laine - amazing musician a true loss to the music world.

Short and sweet, a song on the Band on the Run album called No Words. Also, appeared on both Wings at the Speed of Sound and Wings Over America, a song called Time to Hide. The Note You Never Wrote, another from Wings at the Speed of Sound. These were new albums when I was a kid and I was as familiar with these songs as I was with While My Guitar Gently Weeps or I am the Walrus. I loved all of it. Thank you Michael for a great tribute and thank you Denny for great memories.

@MichaelNoland-TheBottomLine

7 ай бұрын

Oh Wings were a major player for me as well! Wings albums were the very first things on my list BigEasy! So yeah, spot on brother! ❤❤❤

Mike I managed Denny Laine for a short while and I have got to say that it was a honour. He will be sadly missed.

R.I.P. Denny. Loved him in The Moody Blues too. "Go Now" was the tune. Cheers!🥨

An excellent Laine tribute. I learned a lot. I didnt hear go now until about the 5th moody blues album

@MichaelNoland-TheBottomLine

7 ай бұрын

Thanx Clyde! Good to hear from you brother! ❤❤❤

Met DennyLaine while he was touring with some other musicians back in the 1990's in Gering NE. Needless to say, I was so happy that i cried so he hugged me and signed a dollar bill because that's all I had to sign. 💖💔💔🖤

Denny was great. Paul should have kept him in his lineup.

@MichaelNoland-TheBottomLine

7 ай бұрын

I so agree LionHeart! ❤❤❤

Thank you for giving time to recognizing Denny's talents. He played and sang on some of the biggest records in the 1970's, it's too bad he didn't get more recognition. My sister was 11 years older than me, and I was born in October 1963 right before Beatlemania hit America. I literally cut my teeth on Beatles records! But when I was a teenager and able to collect my own records, I was into all of the ex-Beatles, but Wings especially. In those days, I didn't buy singles, I was into LPs and would listen to them all the way through usually. I really liked Denny's songwriting and vocals, he made the Wings records a 'group effort' by his contributions instead of just being a yes man to Paul. As you mentioned, "Spirits of Ancient Egypt" is great, but I also loved "Time To Hide" and "Deliver Your Children". By the way, if you have time, check out the KZread channel "Beatles Forever". The woman who does that had a series of videos on Wings not too long ago that was quite good.

Paul did let Denny come back for his "Tug Of War" album. And Denny is on some "Pipes Of Peace" songs, probably the "Tug Of War" leftovers which made the album.

@TheWALLofMusic

7 ай бұрын

Paul and Denny co-wrote Rainclouds the B Side of Ebony and Ivory. Excellent song!

@jameswilson7084

7 ай бұрын

@@TheWALLofMusic "Ebony And Ivory" was the first 45 single I ever bought. I know the song well. It reminds me of Denny's songs from "London Town". I wonder if it was written or started then? I know some "Tug Of War" songs were indeed first demoed then.

@MichaelNoland-TheBottomLine

7 ай бұрын

Yeah Denny’s parts were already played as Tug of War was originally intend as the next Wings album. But George Martin convinced Paul to do it as a solo project James! ❤❤❤

Paul, i always thought only dealt with the best, period. ☮️

@MichaelNoland-TheBottomLine

7 ай бұрын

There you go Adam! ❤❤❤

Very well spoken Michael. ❤❤

Somebody should name a street after the man.

@stevenmaginnis1965

7 ай бұрын

I see what you did there!

@MichaelNoland-TheBottomLine

7 ай бұрын

LOL I shoulda seen that one coming George! ❤❤❤

@MichaelNoland-TheBottomLine

7 ай бұрын

@@stevenmaginnis1965Ain’t the witty one, eh Steve?❤❤❤

@MIB_63

7 ай бұрын

Denny Lane sounds great.

I still can't understand how "Mull of Kintyre" was the top song of the 1970s in Britain but "You Light Up My Life" was the top song of the 1970s in America! Oh, yeah, that's because Capitol thought no one in America would bother with a Celtic folk song so they ignored the record!

@MichaelNoland-TheBottomLine

7 ай бұрын

Spot-freakin’-on Steven! It’s a freakin’ Masterpiece IMHO! ❤❤❤

Denny, I’ll drink to you tonight as you sang in Picasso’s Last Words. I know you can’t drink anymore. Rest in Peace Denny, you are missed.

London Town didn't just have "Deliver Your Children" but also the wonderful "Don't Let It Bring You Down", one of the best Wings songs in my opinion, which was a collaboration between the two.

Another great tribute to the fallen Michael.

And it has to be said out loud...Denny stayed with McCartney while being painfully underpaid. Henry and Denny S. left over money woes, Jimmy McCullough wasn't happy about his paycheck and felt he'd reached his limited pinnacle in Wings and even though the excuse was given that Joe English missed home, he was also unhappy about his paycheck. Hell, this goes back to Mal Evan's days where he never got more than 40 pounds a week for all his work. Denny Laine, for all of his musical talents, should be remembered for his loyalty. He stated many times that he didn't make a living from records, he depended on his paycheck from touring. That's what hit hard for him and the other Wings musicians when McCartney got busted in Japan. All of them were depending heavily on the touring money. There was no sovereigns pay when that fell apart. Denny was basically poor when he passed. But he was the ONE GUY who stayed loyal to McCartney.

@MichaelNoland-TheBottomLine

7 ай бұрын

Wow Will! So very well said! A tripe A comment to say the least! Thanx brother! ❤❤❤🏆🏆🏆

Researchers conjecture that William Shepherd/Campbell (aka "Billy Shears"), in addition to having been the primary musician who assumed the lifetime role of "Paul McCartney" after the 1966 demise of original biological Paul McCartney, also performed as the original Phil Ackrill in the band The Diplomats. That is why when Billy/"Paul" was putting together Wings, he called upon Denny Laine to join the band - - the two musicians already had a friendship and working relationship going back to their time together in The Diplomats during the early 1960's. (Viewers can briefly see Billy/Phil/"Paul" in his natural appearance - - no wig, no facial hair, no latex - - sitting in the back of the bus in the 1967 Beatles film Magical Mystery Tour.) Except for an occasion or two when an interviewer had plied him with alcohol, Denny did a pretty good job throughout the years of safeguarding Billy's biggest secret - - even after the two of them had experienced a falling out - - and the few truth bombs he allowed to slip through were always spoken masterfully subject to the listener's preferred interpretation. Perhaps with Denny's passing and the inevitable renewed public interest in his career, EMI Records (an adjunct to the British military-intelligence complex) will finally see fit to release the completed Diplomats album that has been kept unheard and sequestered in their vaults for over 50 years.

@trilobiter

7 ай бұрын

^very high value comment here by @Daniel-415-Ponce^ 💯+ Dan, you are obviously an extremely astute researcher/detective. You explain the puzzle pieces very well like a good teacher so any "student" can understand -- **IF** they wish to find out.

Thanks a ton, Michael, for a terrific video and a great tribute to Denny Laine. He really was Paul's secret weapon. I'm having trouble hearing a Wings song without Denny's keyboarding, backup singing, bassing, or any other instrument you can throw in. Paul McCartney knew he had a talented multi-instrumentalist in his band - loved the analogy with John Paul Jones-and Laine made it click. Keep pumping out these great videos, Michael. Til next time.

Rest in peace Denny...

Thank You Denny

So glad you did this video Michael. Your perspective is always honest and refreshing. I love Go Now, I was lucky enough to see Denny do it live with Wings in 1976. My favorite Moodies song with Denny is Bye Bye Bird, he really shreds on the harmonica. I would love it if Paul did a tribute show and did nothing but Wings material. RIP Mr. Laine, thanks for all the wonderful music and memories.

@MichaelNoland-TheBottomLine

7 ай бұрын

I’m so glad you enjoyed it Larry! I to saw Wings in 1976 at the Cow Palace and was no further than 7 to 10 feet from the band the whole night! Where did you see them? ❤❤❤

@LarryGonzalez00

7 ай бұрын

@@MichaelNoland-TheBottomLine I saw them at the Forum in Inglewood. I was 11. We had decent seats, not as good as yours though.

Yes, I think Denny came right out and said to the press after Paul was busted in Japan that it was a "really stupid thing to do" to carry marijuana. He was also pissed because Wings was prepared to do a huge tour that he was really looking forward to when he busted. Of course, that never happened.

@MichaelNoland-TheBottomLine

7 ай бұрын

Yes he was Tim! Nice point! That was some serious change that Denny needed badly at the time for that tour brother! Great point!❤❤🏆🏆

Great comments, subscribed! Not only is it a shame that Denny has passed, but I think it's an even bigger shame that Paul has done, as you mentioned, less and less Wings material in concert and more Beatles. Not to take anything away, of course, from the Beatles, but honestly I don't think Paul gets the recognition he deserves for Wings...there were so many great songs in that band and certainly great members too, of which Denny and yes, even Linda certainly, were integral members. All one has to do is watch their Rockshow concert from 1976 to know what I'm talking about...and as a tribute to now the late great, Denny Laine, that's even more of a reason to check it out. RIP

You are the man with tribute videos. Good day to you Michael.

Very nice overview and tribute to Denny. I am glad Bruce pushed you to do this some great info here.

Hello Michael, I'm subscribed to your channel but I missed this when it came out 5 months ago, today as I was driving I was listening to a Moody Blues CD and just started thinking about why Denny left that group and when I came home and put You Tube on this was one of the thumb nails.

Nice video. I wasn't to familiar with Denny. Interesting stuff.

@MichaelNoland-TheBottomLine

7 ай бұрын

Thanx Jeffrey! BTW, some of the stuff was deep Wings lore, so you’re more informed than most on the man brother! ❤❤❤

0:12 rip for him😔🙏 🪦

@nicktherecordlover1969

7 ай бұрын

@darksolo Yesterday was indeed a sad day. I loved Denny. As I told Michael above, I had the pleasure of meeting him. Many times.

@DarkAuraDeathAngel

7 ай бұрын

1 of the reason y I click on this video is bec of the band name reminds me of the hair metal band name Winger lmao😂

Micheal, I really enjoy your channel and I agree with every word in this video. Keep up the good work buddy.

Totally agree, Denny was extremely important to Wings. Paul takes the lionshare of credit but those who really follow things know without Denny things like Band on the Run might have been titled Banana in My (censor) ha!

Denny took secrets to the grave about Billy

@MichaelNoland-TheBottomLine

7 ай бұрын

Oh you’re gonna love my part 2 to the whole Willian who shall not be named ideo J! 😉❤❤

Denny played a good bassline on My Love. Would be nice if Paul did a tribute to Denny performance of Mull of Kintyre at his concerts, but he probably won’t.

Denny Laine was involved in Paul's greatest post Beatles success. Without Denny Laine it could be argued Wings would have been in more choppy creative waters if you look at Paul's post Denny work. On top of that, it appears Paul McCartney may not have been the easiest person to work with post Beatles as Eric Stewart, of 10cc, briefly had Denny's role with Paul but bolted. Denny Laine put in 10 years side by side with Paul and had a lot to do with his post Beatles success in Wings. I thought Paul calling Denny an acquaintance was an odd choice of a word in his statement on Denny's passing which I think means Paul could be distant even when you work closely with him and I suspect Denny Laine was very adaptable to working with an international superstar which is not easy.

Before Denny passed away there was a Go Fund Me for his medical care, apparently it is common for musicians to overlook getting medical insurance. The target amount has still not been reached. Is it possible Paul did not know about Denny's failing health? Or the Go Fund Me which he could have easily paid for his old bandmate and friend?

McCartney could have helped more in the end . Dennys family had started a Gofund me account to help with the bills. After the Beatles Wings were McCartney best stuff.

@MichaelNoland-TheBottomLine

7 ай бұрын

Good point Steven! But who knows, McCartney may have help in a more quiet fashion! I would hope so! ❤❤❤

@MIB_63

7 ай бұрын

I read that Paul did help but it didn't say in what way.

RIP Denny. I haven't really liked anything Maca has done since the last Wings album in 79. To be fair, I've been tole, he's done some good stuff since his 'dreck days' of the 80s. I wouldn't know as I won't listen to him. He was at his post-Beatles peak when he was with Denny. I guess Denny finally had to 'Go Now'. Funny thing, for years I only knew that song from Wings Over America. I never knew it was originally The Moody Blues until the 90s.

@MichaelNoland-TheBottomLine

7 ай бұрын

Ooh, and wasn’t it such a treat when he sang it live Iib? ❤❤❤

@lib556

7 ай бұрын

@@MichaelNoland-TheBottomLine I actually prefer it over the original version. In the original, he gets too close to the mic and during high points in the song, the sound distorts. I absolutely love Wings Over America. Loved it since I first heard it at age 11 (1976).

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Denny was mad at Paul for blowing a huge payday in Japan and a long tour to follow. The band made money from playing live. Paul's bust meant no shows were going to happen. So Denny spoke out. It's a tough spot to be put in by Paul's foolish decision.

It's too bad Paul didn't do any more writing or playing with Denny. Denny felt close to Paul, but it may not have been reciprocated.

RIP Denny Laine. Oh Wings not in the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame.

Jeez, sad news

Was Penny Lane song title inspired in any way by Denny Laine? I'm aware there is a location called Penny Lane but always wondered if the title had another association.

@MichaelNoland-TheBottomLine

7 ай бұрын

It’s just one of a million little ‘Beatles coincidences’ Rod! Beatle magic always ensues! ❤❤❤

dennis wife said Paul was not a real vegetarian. he was caught with those giant burgers