Editing Back to the Egg (section)

==="Over Easy"===
Opening side two, "[[Rockestra Theme]]" was a composition that McCartney had first recorded in 1974, on the same piano demo tape as "Getting Closer".<ref>Madinger and Easter, pp. 193–94, 599</ref> "Rockestra Theme" is an instrumental – except for the shouted line "''Why haven't I had any dinner?''", which author Robert Rodriguez describes as a "deliberate evocation" of [[Glenn Miller]]'s 1940 single "[[Pennsylvania 6-5000 (song)|Pennsylvania 6-5000]]".<ref name="Rodriguez p 376"/> Another rock track,<ref name="Madinger & Easter p 244">Madinger and Easter, p. 244</ref> "To You" includes a lyric aimed at a lover who has wronged the singer.<ref name=W&M92>Benitez, p. 92</ref> The guitar solo on the recording provides an unusual aspect for a Wings song,<ref name="Madinger & Easter p 244" /> in that Juber played the part through an [[Eventide, Inc.|Eventide]] [[harmonizer]] while McCartney simultaneously altered the harmonizer's settings from the studio's control room.<ref name=W&M92-93>Benitez, pp. 92–93</ref>

McCartney deemed the two [[Gospel music|gospel]]-influenced pieces making up "After the Ball/Million Miles" as being of insufficient quality to merit inclusion as separate tracks;<ref name=W&M93>Benitez, p. 93</ref> "After the Ball" ends with a guitar solo,<ref name=W&M93/> edited from parts played by McCartney, Laine and Juber, after which "Million Miles" consists of a performance by McCartney alone, on [[concertina]].<ref name="Madinger & Easter p 245">Madinger and Easter, p. 245</ref> This is followed by another [[medley (music)|medley]], "Winter Rose/Love Awake", both portions of which McCartney had demoed at Rude Studio, his home studio at Campbeltown, in 1977.<ref name=W&M94>Benitez, p. 94</ref>{{refn|"Million Miles" was another older song of McCartney's, dating from the 1974 demo session, which Madinger and Easter suggest was recorded in Los Angeles.<ref>Madinger and Easter, pp. 193–94</ref>|group="nb"}}

"The Broadcast" is another instrumental,<ref name=W&M95>Benitez, p. 95</ref> designed to give the impression of several radio signals interlaced, and bringing full-circle the concept established in the album's opening track, "Reception".<ref name="Madinger & Easter p 245" /> Over a musical backing of piano, [[mellotron]] and [[gizmotron]],<ref name="Madinger & Easter p 245" /> it features readings taken from the plays ''[[The Sport of Kings (play)|The Sport of Kings]]'' by [[Ian Hay]] and ''The Little Man'' by [[John Galsworthy]].<ref name="Woffinden p 121">Woffinden, p. 121</ref> As a return to the proposed working-band concept, "So Glad to See You Here", Rodriguez writes, "[evokes] the anticipation of a live act guaranteed to 'knock 'em dead'" and so recalls Wings' 1975–76 show-opening medley "[[Venus and Mars/Rock Show]]".<ref>Rodriguez, pp. 62–63, 269, 376</ref> During the outro, the band reprise a line from "We're Open Tonight".<ref name=W&M92/> The album ends with a [[jazz]]-inflected<ref name="Sounes p 345" /> ballad, "Baby's Request", which McCartney wrote for American vocal group [[the Mills Brothers]], after seeing them perform in the [[South of France]] during the summer of 1978.<ref name="Madinger & Easter p 245" />