Editing Back to the Egg (section)

====June–July 1978: Spirit of Ranachan Studios====
The recording sessions for ''Back to the Egg'' began on 29 June 1978 at Spirit of Ranachan Studios<ref name="Badman p 223">Badman, p. 223</ref> – another, larger recording facility on the McCartneys' Campbeltown farm – using equipment loaned from Mickie Most's [[RAK Studios|RAK Studio]] in London.<ref>Madinger and Easter, pp. 223, 240</ref> The basic tracks were recorded with a spontaneity that had been absent in Wings' past work,<ref name="Madinger & Easter pp 240, 242" /> employing an approach that Juber has described as a "back-to-basics, garage band kind of feel".<ref name=W&M88>Benitez, p. 88</ref>

Sessions at Spirit of Ranachan lasted until 27 July, during which the band taped and added [[Overdubbing|overdubs]] to "Arrow Through Me", "Again and Again and Again", "To You", "Winter Rose", "Old Siam, Sir" and "Spin It On".<ref name="Madinger & Easter p 240" /> Basic tracks were also completed for "Cage", a song that remained in the proposed running order for the album until early in 1979, "Crawl of the Wild", "Weep for Love", "Ballroom Dancing" and "Maisie".<ref name="Badman p 223" /> These last three compositions would all appear on solo albums by members of Wings between 1980 and 1982.<ref name=Band226 />{{refn|Laine's "Weep for Love" appeared on his album ''[[Japanese Tears]]'' (1980),<ref name=Band226>McGee, p. 226</ref> McCartney re-recorded "Ballroom Dancing" for ''[[Tug of War (Paul McCartney album)|Tug of War]]'' (1982), and the Juber-composed<ref name="Madinger & Easter p 246">Madinger and Easter, p. 246</ref> "Maisie" was included on the guitarist's solo debut, ''[[Standard Time (album)|Standard Time]]'' (1982).<ref>Badman, pp. 223, 264–65</ref>|group="nb"}}

In addition, the band filmed a promotional video for the ''London Town'' single "[[I've Had Enough (Wings song)|I've Had Enough]]" while in Scotland<ref name="Rodriguez p 219" /><ref>Madinger and Easter, pp. 232–33</ref> and, in early July, recorded demos of twelve pieces intended for the Rupert the Bear film soundtrack.<ref name=Band122>McGee, p. 122</ref> In the case of the latter activity, none of these compositions were revisited for what became ''[[Rupert and the Frog Song]]'' (1984).<ref>Madinger and Easter, pp. 239, 262</ref>{{refn|Of the twelve tracks that Wings recorded, some dated from fragments of songs played by McCartney during, variously, the Beatles' [[Let It Be (album)#Twickenham rehearsals|''Get Back'' rehearsals]] in January 1969, the initial recording for his and Linda's album ''[[Ram (album)|Ram]]'' in 1970, and demo sessions such as that for the 1974 piano tape.<ref>Madinger and Easter, pp. 239–40</ref>|group="nb"}}

[[File:LympneCastle.jpg|thumbnail|200px|left|[[Lympne Castle]] in Kent, where Wings recorded part of ''Back to the Egg'' and filmed the video for their single "[[Old Siam, Sir]]"]]