After the release of the album London Town (1978), Wings band leader Paul McCartney hired two session musicians, drummer Steve Holley and lead guitarist Laurence Juber, … See more

The band first rehearsed material for Back to the Egg in London, at the offices of McCartney's company MPL Communications See more

"Goodnight Tonight" had been issued on Columbia Records in America, marking McCartney's break from EMI-affiliated Capitol Records, although he and Wings remained with EMI's See more

With the album falling well short of Columbia's and McCartney's expectations commercially, McCartney spent the remainder of … See more

Although London Town had featured a significant level of contribution from Laine as a songwriter, all but one of the songs on Back to the Egg are credited to McCartney alone. The album was originally planned around a loose conceptual theme, … See more

The design for the album's artwork was by Hipgnosis, the company responsible for previous Wings album covers such as Venus and Mars (1975) and the recent Wings Greatest compilation … See more

Back to the Egg received predominantly negative reviews on release; author Alan Clayson writes of the album receiving "a critical mauling as vicious as that for London Town". In an especially unfavourable critique for Rolling Stone magazine, See more