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On this day in 1973, the Paul McCartney and Wings LP “Band on the Run” debuted on the US Billboard 200 Albums Chart at #33 (December 22)
The album was mostly recorded at EMI's studio in Lagos, Nigeria, and just before heading off, drummer Denny Seiwell and guitarist Henry McCullough left the group.
With no time to recruit replacements, McCartney went into the studio with just his wife Linda and Denny Laine.
McCartney therefore played bass, drums, percussion and most of the lead guitar parts.
Containing songs like the title track and “Jet”, the album was a stunning success, going to #1 in the US, the UK, Australia, Canada, Norway and Spain, and was critically acclaimed as some of McCartney’s finest post-Beatles work.
Paul said,
“It's a collection of songs and the basic idea about the band on the run is a kind of prison escape. At the beginning of the album, the guy is stuck inside four walls and breaks out. There is a thread, but not a concept.”
In a troubling incident during recording in Lagos, Nigeria, Paul and Linda McCartney were robbed at knifepoint. The assailants made away with all of their valuables and even stole a bag containing a notebook full of handwritten lyrics and songs, and cassettes containing demos for songs to be recorded.
The album cover photograph shows a prison break with McCartney, Linda and Laine plus six other well-known people, including talk show host Michael Parkinson, and actors James Coburn and Christopher Lee.
In 2012, it was listed at #418 on Rolling Stone's revised list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time", and in 2013, “Band on the Run” was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
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On this day in 1973, the Paul McCartney and Wings LP “Band on the Run” debuted on the US Billboard 200 Albums Chart at #33 (December 22)
The album was mostly recorded at EMI's studio in Lagos, Nigeria, and just before heading off, drummer Denny Seiwell and guitarist Henry McCullough left the group.
With no time to recruit replacements, McCartney went into the studio with just his wife Linda and Denny Laine.
McCartney therefore played bass, drums, percussion and most of the lead guitar parts.
Containing songs like the title track and “Jet”, the album was a stunning success, going to #1 in the US, the UK, Australia, Canada, Norway and Spain, and was critically acclaimed as some of McCartney’s finest post-Beatles work.
Paul said,
“It's a collection of songs and the basic idea about the band on the run is a kind of prison escape. At the beginning of the album, the guy is stuck inside four walls and breaks out. There is a thread, but not a concept.”
In a troubling incident during recording in Lagos, Nigeria, Paul and Linda McCartney were robbed at knifepoint. The assailants made away with all of their valuables and even stole a bag containing a notebook full of handwritten lyrics and songs, and cassettes containing demos for songs to be recorded.
The album cover photograph shows a prison break with McCartney, Linda and Laine plus six other well-known people, including talk show host Michael Parkinson, and actors James Coburn and Christopher Lee.
In 2012, it was listed at #418 on Rolling Stone's revised list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time", and in 2013, “Band on the Run” was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
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George Bernard Shaw.
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
"George Bernard Shaw, known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond."
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Death = Time
A Short Philosophical Reflection on Awareness & Living Fully
Rethinking Death
Death isn’t a single event waiting at the end of life. It is already happening—quietly, as time itself. To understand death is not to think about the future, but to notice the present.
Death as a Process
Every passing moment is a small ending:
a thought fades, a feeling dissolves, a version of you disappears.
Life feels continuous only because the mind stitches moments together. In truth, change is constant. Death is gradual, not sudden.
The Illusion of Permanence
Unaware living makes life feel stable and death feel like an interruption.
Aware living reveals the opposite: everything is in flux—body, identity, emotions, relationships. Death isn’t against life; it’s life’s rhythm.
Why We Fear Death
Fear doesn’t come from death itself, but from inattention.
When time passes unnoticed, the final moment feels shocking. The terror is not sudden death—it’s long unconscious living.
Time as Silent Erosion
Time quietly erodes: youth, memory, former selves.
Because this erosion is silent, it’s ignored. Death feels dramatic only because its slow work went unseen.
Awareness vs. Belief
Beliefs explain death away.
Awareness watches it closely.
When time is observed moment by moment, death loses its panic. Awareness doesn’t remove death—it removes fear.
How Awareness Changes Time
Time doesn’t slow, but it deepens.
Moments feel fuller. Change is noticed as it happens. Life becomes less rushed and more alive.
Freedom Through Acceptance
Nothing was ever owned—not youth, not people, not even the body.
When ownership drops, fear loosens. Accepting death as time doesn’t darken life; it makes it intimate and precious.
Living Differently
If death is happening now, how would you live today?
With more honesty?
More presence?
Less illusion?
Conclusion: Death as Teacher
When death and time are seen as one, death stops being an enemy of the future and becomes a teacher of the present.
It asks only one thing:
Stay awake while you are here.
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On this day in 1981, the Men At Work single “Down Under” went to #1 on the Australian charts (December 21)
“Down Under” was also #1 in the US, the UK, New Zealand, Canada, Switzerland, Poland and Ireland, and went Top 10 in Germany, South Africa, Norway, Finland, Belgium, Sweden and the Netherlands.
The song written by Men at Work co-founders, Colin Hay and Ron Strykert from their international #1 album “Business as Usual”, has gone down in Australian rock history as a classic, and is really an unofficial Aussie anthem.
The Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) ranked “Down Under” #4 on their list of the Best Australian Songs from 1926 to 2001, as decided by a hundred-strong industry panel.
It was added to the National Film and Sound Archive's Sounds of Australia registry in 2007.
The holders of the copyright to a 1932 Australian children’s song successfully sued Hay and Strykert, claiming that they misappropriated the flute riff.
Several appeals by EMI and Men at Work were unsuccessful.
The Men at Work member that played the flute riff Greg Ham said he was deeply affected by the judgment and felt it tarnished his reputation, saying: "I'm terribly disappointed that that's the way I'm going to be remembered—for copying something."
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