"It was one of those moments where I could have said, 'I'd rather you didn't stick to the script,' but I thought he sounded like he's got an idea, and I said, 'Sure.' He came out with the really good guitar solo on the record it's one of the best things he played. "We had an interesting moment on the session where we were going to cut it live at Abbey Road Studios, and the guitar player came over to me right before the take – we knew what we were going to do as a band, and the orchestra was arranged – and he said, 'Do you mind if I try something different on the solo?'" McCartney later told Billboard's Timothy White. A pay structure that reportedly amounted to nothing more than a small weekly stipend didn't help matters, either. McCullough eventually fought for, and won, the chance to play the ballad's searing guitar solo his way – but, in the end, something else was lost: the sense that Wings were really a band, and not just a backing group for McCartney.
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I simply said: 'I'm going to change things.'" I want to have my own input, too.' He says, 'What are you going to do?' I didn't know. I have to be left as the guitar player in the band. That was the point of no return," McCullough said in 2011. "Paul had this particular thing that he wanted me to play. The late McCullough, however, had other ideas. Though the single was released under the band's name, McCartney had worked out everything for "My Love" – even the guitar solo. Ironically, "My Love" – their gold-selling early breakthrough moment – held the seeds of their future split. Red Rose Speedway arrived on April 30, 1973, and by then fissures were already opening up.
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Everything fell apart, however, once they returned to the studio. We got on the motorway and when we saw a place we liked, we stopped." Anyone else would have booked hotels and booked gigs but oh, no! We didn’t bother with that. But of course, being us, we just did it the craziest way. It starts with everyone getting to know each other – do small gigs and start from square one. "We decided to start from the ground up, and try and build a band like everyone else did.
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"It was our version of the Magical Mystery Tour," McCartney told Classic Rock in 2016.