Helen Wheels – Paul McCartney & Wings (1973)

An Individual, limited edition, example of vinyl record silhouette art made from a genuine, original, 45rpm, 7” single of Helen Wheels from 1973, by Paul McCartney & Wings. This vinyl single has been reworked into a Land Rover car.

The song was named after Paul and Linda McCartney’s Land Rover, which they nicknamed Helen Wheels. In the book Paul McCartney In His Own Words, McCartney said: “Helen Wheels is our land rover. It’s a name we gave to our land rover, which is a trusted vehicle that gets us around Scotland. It takes us up to the Shetland Islands and down to London. The song starts off in Glasgow, and it goes past Carlisle, goes to Kendal, Liverpool, Birmingham and London. It’s the route coming down from our Scottish farm to London, so it’s really the story of the trip down.”