Ram (album)

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Ram
RamMcCartneyalbumcover.jpg
Studio album by
Released17 May 1971 (1971-05-17)
Recorded16 October 1970 – 1 March 1971
Studio
  • Columbia and A&R (New York)
  • Sound Recording (Los Angeles)
Genre
Length43:15
Label Apple
Producer
  • Paul McCartney
  • Linda McCartney
Paul McCartney chronology
McCartney
(1970)
Ram
(1971)
McCartney II
(1980)
Linda McCartney chronology
Ram
(1971)
Wide Prairie
(1998)

Personnel

Charts

Weekly charts

References

Footnotes

  1. Seiwell would later become the drummer of the McCartneys' new band, Wings. [5]
  2. This composition is made up of two songs: "Long Haired Lady" and "Love Is Long", making it the longest track on the album. [13]
  3. Near the end of the reprise version of "Ram On" McCartney sings lyrics from Wings' "Big Barn Bed". [14]
  4. An early version of "The Back Seat of My Car" was premiered during the Beatles' Get Back/Let It Be sessions in January 1969. [15]
  5. Spinozza played lead guitar on "Get on the Right Thing", while McCracken played it on "Little Lamb Dragonfly". [26]
  6. In the original version of the line "You took your lucky break and broke it in two", "You" was "Yoko". [30]
  7. In a December 1997 interview granted to Q magazine regarding whether the significance of this image was simply "fuck the Beatles", McCartney agreed, explaining the image had been taken by Linda, "then the significance hit us. We saw that pun, yeah, thought why not?" [32]
  8. UK Apple R 5914
  9. US Apple 1837
  10. US Capitol CDP 7 46612 2
  11. Europe Parlophone CDPMCOL 2/0777 7 89139 2 4
  12. US DCC Compact Classics GZS-1037
  13. Europe Hear Music HRM-33452-01
  14. Europe Hear Music HRM-33448-02/0888072334489
  15. Europe Hear Music HRM-33449-02/0888072334496
  16. US Hear Music HRM-33449-02
  17. Europe Hear Music HRM-33450-00
  18. US Hear Music HRM-33450-00
  19. Europe Hear Music HRM-33451-01
  20. Europe Hear Music HRM-33452-01

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