Jet (song)
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| Single by Paul McCartney and Wings | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| from the album Band on the Run | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| B-side | "Let Me Roll It" "Mamunia" (first US pressing) |
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| Released | 28 January 1974 (US) 15 February 1974 (UK) |
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| Format | 7-inch single | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Recorded | September 1973 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Genre | Rock,power pop | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Length | 4:07 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Label | Apple Records | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Producer(s) | Paul McCartney | |||||||||||||||||||||
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"Jet" is a song by Paul McCartney and Wings from their album Band on the Run. Supposedly written about a jet black Labrador that McCartney owned, the song was the first British and American single to be released from the album. The song peaked at number 7 in both the British and American charts on 30 March 1974, also charting in multiple countries in Europe. It has been released on numerous compilation albums, and has since become one of the band's most well-known tracks.
Reviewers have reported that the subject of the song is McCartney's Labrador Retriever dog named "Jet". McCartney has also substantiated this claim.
We've got a Labrador puppy who is a runt, the runt of a litter. We bought her along a roadside in a little pet shop, out in the country one day. She was a bit of a wild dog, a wild girl who wouldn't stay in. We have a big wall around our house in London, and she wouldn't stay in, she always used to jump the wall. She'd go out on the town for the evening, like Lady And The Tramp. She must have met up with some big black Labrador or something. She came back one day pregnant. She proceeded to walk into the garage and have this litter... Seven little black puppies, perfect little black Labradors, and she's not black, she's tan. So we worked out it must have been a black Labrador. What we do is if either of the dogs we have has a litter, we try to keep them for the puppy stage, so we get the best bit of them, and then when they get a bit unmanageable we ask people if they want to have a puppy. So Jet was one of the puppies. We give them all names. We've had some great names, there was one puppy called Golden Molasses. I rather like that. Then there was one called Brown Megs, named after a Capitol executive. They've all gone now. The people change the names if they don't like them.
However, in a 2010 interview on the UK television channel ITV1 for the programme Wings: Band on the Run (to promote the November 2010 CD/DVD re-release of the album) McCartney explained that Jet was the name of a pony he had owned, although many of the lyrics bore little relation to the subject; indeed, the true meaning of the lyrics has defied all attempts at decryption.
The song's use of the word "suffragette" was described by McCartney as "crazy" and "silly", not having any deep inspiration.
I make up so much stuff. It means something to me when I do it, and it means something to the record buyer, but if I'm asked to analyze it I can't really explain what it is. 'Suffragette' was crazy enough to work. It sounded silly, so I liked it.
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