Release and Reception
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After a party announcing the band's formation in November 1971, Wild Life was released on 7 December to lukewarm critical and commercial reaction.
John Mendelsohn wrote in Rolling Stone that he wondered whether the album may have been "deliberately second-rate." In The Beatles: An Illustrated Record, Roy Carr and Tony Tyler called the album "rushed, defensive, badly timed, and over-publicized" and wrote that it showed McCartney's songwriting "at an absolute nadir just when he needed a little respect."
The album reached #11 in the UK and #10 in the US, where it went gold.
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