| "Loup (1st Indian on the Moon)" | |
|---|---|
| Instrumental by Paul McCartney and Wings | |
| from the album Red Rose Speedway | |
| Released | 5 May 1973 |
| Recorded | 15-17 March 1972 [1] |
| Studio | Olympic Sound Studios [1] |
| Genre | Experimental [2] |
| Length | 4:23 |
| Label | Apple |
| Songwriter(s) | Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney |
| Producer(s) | Paul McCartney |
"Loup (1st Indian on the Moon)" is a song by the British-American rock band Wings from their second studio album Red Rose Speedway . [2]
Paul McCartney stated on the writing on the song: "Because it's an album track we had a bit more room to manoeuvre. And I think it's the rebellious aspect of Wild Life coming back in. So you’ve got 'My Love', and that's a proper song. You've got some other proper songs on the album. But then we've got something like 'Loup', where it was sort of a bit of fun for us. It's pretty experimental. But we didn't ever play it live, it was just something fun that only existed in the studio." [3] According to Wings in an interview for the British music magazine Melody Maker: "It’s just a thing really, hard to explain about the first Red Indian on the moon called Loup. It’s just a story but you can see through his eyes." [4]
Ian Peel said that the song was "clearly inspired by the progressive and concept rock scenes that were springing up at the time" [5] Tom Doyle said that it was a "Pink Floyd-inspired instrumental" [6] Ted Montgomery said that "Throughout McCartney's career he's had trouble resisting making self-indulgent and head-scratching decisions about including certain songs on his albums" [7] Rolling Stone called it "electronic patter more gracefully left to such as Pink Floyd and Hawkwind." [8]
According to Vincent P Benitez Jr [9] except where noted.