Wings Over America
by Wings

Wings Over America by Wings
(Live album)
Year: 1976
Release date: 1976-12-10
Overall rank: 5,040th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
78/100 (from 112 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1976 (77th)
Award Top albums of of the 1970s (808th)
Award Best albums of all time (5,040th)

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Wings bestography

Wings Over America is ranked 16th best out of 50 albums by Paul McCartney on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Paul McCartney is Band On The Run which is ranked number 260 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 6,160.

Wings album bestography « Higher ranked (4,681st)
London Town
This album (5,040th)
Wings Over America
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Memory Almost Full

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Wings Over America track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Wings Over America rankings

Wings Over America rankings summary
Overall rank: 5,040th | 1970s rank: 808th | 1976 rank: 77th  Overall chart history
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Average Rating: 
78/100 (from 112 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.5/100, a mean average of 76.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.8.


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85/100
From 04/20/2026 07:49 | #314012
One of the best live albums ever recorded and the first three disc album that I ever bought which I thought was incredible at the timee. A great, great live album
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95/100
From 12/27/2021 10:02 | #278039
Tras haber publicado sus mejores trabajos, este álbum refleja el mejor momento de McCartney y Wings. Magnífico.
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90/100
Most live albums on this site have low ratings because it does not contain new material. Often a live album is nothing more than a greatest hits collection. However, this is not the case for this album. In my opinion most of the Wings songs are live much better than the recorded version in the studio. This is really a must have for all music collections!
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85/100
An enjoyable live album from Paul McCartney's successful U.S. tour. It features a few Beatles classics, amongst wings and solo songs. The acoustic sit down is my favourite part of the show, featuring, bluebird, the fab four's, I've just seen a face, and Paul Simon's, Richard Cory. It's not essential, like most live albums, but it is a lot of fun.
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80/100
This was originally a triple album now on 2 CD's. A really good live album a band at the height of their Powers/popularity, they sound like a well oiled band not just a backing band for Paul McCartney. As sometimes happens with live albums, some of these songs sound better live than they did on the original albums.
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95/100
With Frampton Comes Alive, one of the best live album you can find. Paul took some songs, like Venus and Mars/Rock Show, Maybe I'm Amazed, and gave them new life here. Long and Winding Road is so good on here. Actually all the songs he does from the Venus and Mars album, sound so much better on this album....Letting Go, Venus and Mars/ Rock Show, Magneto and Titanium Man, Medicine Jar, Spirits of Ancient Egypt, and even You Gave Me the Answer. The only 1 I prefer the studio version of is Listen to what the Man Said. Soily, Hi Hi Hi, Letting Go, Live and Let Die, all sound so good. Just wish he would have done Juniors Farm and left out Richard Cory or Call Me Back Again.
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Rating:  
85/100
Never really got into Wings but this is a pretty good live album. So nice covers of Beatles songs as well as solo McCartney.
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