10 Songs That Prove Wings Are A Better Band Than You Think
9. Get On The Right Thing
Forget My Love. This is the real highlight of the much maligned Red Rose Speedway album.
RRS was gutted of some of its best tracks when the record company refused to put out a double album but this is the best of what’s left.
Get on The Right Thing isn’t a love song. Instead it’s a song about love. It has a suitably uplifting backing track. Built on a simple piano riff that seems to be constantly escalating until bursting into a chorus that breaks like sunshine through clouds.
“Believe me it’s so,” Mcartney crows, extolling the joys of being in love, “and I happen to know.” It’s the sound of a man in love with his life and his wife. It was far from a new topic from McCartney but where My Love is syrupy and anodyne, Get on The Right Thing has a confident swagger.