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“Maybe I'm Amazed (Live)” by Paul McCartney
From the album McCartney (1970)
“Maybe I'm Amazed (Live)” by Paul McCartney appears on 12 radio countdowns from 7 stations between 2002 and 2025. It was first released in 1970 on the album McCartney. Its best result is #109 on the 97 Rock N Roll 500 (2023). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #2,545 indie & aaa song of all time.
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"Maybe I'm Amazed" first surfaced on McCartney, the solo debut Paul McCartney put out on Apple in April 1970, a song he wrote and produced himself and recorded at Abbey Road Studios. Strange but true: that studio original never came out as a single. It took his later band Wings to finish the job: their performance on the live album Wings over America went out as a single in February 1977, wedged between "Let 'Em In" and "Mull of Kintyre".
The live version is the one that made it a hit, running into the top ten in America and reaching number 28 in Britain, and the song's standing has only swelled since. Rolling Stone slotted it at number 347 on its 500 Greatest Songs of All Time in 2011, and in 2024 the same magazine crowned it the finest thing any ex-Beatle had done on his own.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
Classic Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 416 | 92.3 KGON | KGON Top 923 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2002) | 923 |
| 2004 | 418 | 92.3 KGON | KGON Top 923 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2004) | 923 |
| 2016 | 895 | WYEP | WYEP 913 Countdown 2016 | 913 |
| 2022 | 393 | WMGK | WMGK Philly 500 (2022) | 500 |
| 2022 | 182 | 97.1 The River | River 500 (2022) | 500 |
| 2022 | 170 | 102.5 KZOK | KZOK Classic Rock Top 1025 (2022) | 1025 |
| 2023 | 375 | 97.1 The Drive | 97.1 The Drive Memorial Day Weekend Rock N Roll 500 (2023) | 500 |
| 2023 | 109 | 97 Rock | 97 Rock N Roll 500 (2023) | 500 |
| 2023 | 576 | WYEP | WYEP Countdown to Fall 2023 | 1229 |
| 2024 | 534 | WYEP | WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years | 1049 |
| 2025 | 363 | 97 Rock | 97 Rock N Roll 500 (2025) | 500 |
| 2025 | 286 | WMGK | WMGK Philly 500 (2025) | 500 |
Also listed as: Maybe I'm Amazed (LIVE); Maybe I'm Amazed (live).
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