5 Wings Venus And Mars

CAPITOL 1975, £13.50

You say: “Letting Go and Love In Song are both superb.” James Davies, Twitter

Walking tall after Band On The Run and having established what would be the best Wings line-up – featuring American drummer Joe English and wild card Glaswegian guitarist Jimmy McCulloch – Venus And Mars was an album brimming with rediscovered confidence. The minute-long acoustic psychedelia of the title track (although later reprised) was all the more tantalising given its brevity, before it slammed into the Jimmy Pagereferencing, designed-forstage belter Rock Show. Glam loper Magneto And Titanium Man was appealingly catchy/ daft, Letting Go dug into a deep Steely Dan-like groove and only the bizarre inclusion of a rocked-up version of the theme from teatime ITV soap Crossroads broke the spell.