10 Wings Back To The Egg

PARLOPHONE 1979, £6.13

You say: “Wings’ Abbey Road. An unintended finale… where song fragments rub up against gems like Arrow Through Me.” Jason Carty, Twitter

The final band-sized line-up of Wings (featuring normally jobbing sessioneers, drummer Steve Holley and guitarist Laurence Juber) saw off the ’70s with this 14-track splurge. Part-recorded in the supposedly haunted medieval Lympne Castle in Kent, Back To

The Egg may have been dismissed at the time as messy stabs at new wave and synthy soul, but time has revealed its charms. Getting Closer and Arrow Through Me respectively play Squeeze and Hall & Oates at their own games, and the spoken word bits featuring plummy-toned castle owners Mr Harold Margary and Mrs Deirdre Margary lend artful strangeness.