| Wings | |
| Cover: | Wings single.jpg |
| Caption: | A-side label |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Ringo Starr |
| Album: | Ringo the 4th |
| B-Side: | Just a Dream |
| Released: | 25 August 1977 |
| Genre: | Rock |
| Length: | 3:26 (album version) 3:03 (single version) |
| Label: | Atlantic |
| Producer: | Arif Mardin |
| Prev Title: | Las Brisas |
| Prev Year: | 1976 |
| Next Title: | Drowning in the Sea of Love |
| Next Year: | 1977 |
| Wings | |
| Cover: | Ringo Starr - Wings (2012).jpg |
| Caption: | Download cover |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Ringo Starr |
| Album: | Ringo 2012 |
| Released: | 10 January 2012 |
| Genre: | Reggae rock |
| Length: | 3:31 |
| Label: | Hip-O Records |
| Producer: | Ringo Starr Bruce Sugar |
| Prev Title: | Walk with You |
| Prev Year: | 2009 |
| Next Title: | Postcards from Paradise |
| Next Year: | 2015 |
"Wings" is a song by Ringo Starr, originally recorded for and released as a single from the album Ringo the 4th. It was co-written with Vini Poncia in 1977. Starr later re-recorded it, produced by Starr and Bruce Sugar, and released it as a single from his 2012 studio album, Ringo 2012.
Starr on the 2012 re-recording of "Wings" was for Ringo 2012:[1]
The original version was released as a single in the US on 26 August 1977, backed with non-album track "Just a Dream".[2]
A live version by Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band, recorded live in Atlanta, was released on the Hurricane Sandy charity compilation Songs After Sandy: Friends of Red Hook for Sandy Relief.[3]
Starr gave filmmakers the chance to do an official promo video for 2012 version of "Wings"; the winning video was chosen by Starr himself.[4] Starr called it "a great little video".[5]
Cash Box said that "the haunting melody is carried by a closely-knit ensemble of vocalists, and supported by a richly-textured horn section and stabbing guitars."[6] In a review for Ultimate Classic Rock, Billy Dukes calls the remake "less passionate, borderline lifeless vocal performance" when compared to the original.[7]
Ringo the 4th version[8]
Ringo 2012 version[1]