Hi, Hi, Hi

This was a single released by Wings in December of 1972. As soon as the song appeared it was banned by the BBC. A publicity man for the BBC said at the time: "the ban has nothing to do with drugs. We thought the record unfit because of the lyrics." (Like a rabbit I'm going to grab it and do it till the night is done.............indeed)

Paul has commented that "we wrote Hi, Hi, Hi in Spain, because we had a tour of Europe coming up. It was written purposely as a nice easy rocker. It's basically a rock and roll thing written on three rock and roll chords." It was to give them a good rock and roll number to play with their other material.

In 1972 Paul and Wings released three singles, two were banned. Give Ireland back to the Irish, for being to political and Hi, Hi, Hi was banned for racy lyrics. The single in between the two banned songs was Mary Had a Little Lamb, Paul's version of the nursery ryhme.

Hi, Hi, Hi was backed with the song C Moon. The single reached the number 5 position on the charts in the UK, the number 10 spot in the US, 5 in Canada, 16 in Germany, 20 in New Zealand and 29 in Australia.