[2] Footage of McCartney playing "Bip Bop" and "Hey Diddle" from around this time was later included in the made-for-TV film Wings Over the World.

[5] After the rehearsals at Rude, the recording moved to Abbey Road Studios, where the album was completed in a few weeks.

[8][9] Music critic Ian MacDonald cited "Dear Friend" as a counter-argument to the caricature of McCartney as an emotional lightweight.

[10] Wild Life also included a reggae remake of Mickey & Sylvia's 1957 top 40 hit "Love Is Strange".

"[18] 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".

[19] The liner notes for Wild Life (and on the Thrillington album) were credited to Clint Harrigan, a nom de plume of McCartney.

[citation needed] In December 1971, a Ram outtake "Breakfast Blues" was mixed by Paul and Linda at A&R Studios.

[4] "Breakfast Blues" was played on WCBS-FM, where McCartney promoted Wings and Wild Life, on 15 December.

Wild Life received an instrumental version of "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" (originally released as b-side of the single) as a bonus track.

[20] The bonus tracks included the single "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" and its instrumental b-side, promo single edit of "Love Is Strange" and a number of home demos and studio outtakes, including unedited home performances of "Bip Bop" and "Hey Diddle", previously released on Wingspan: Hits and History.

It was first released in stereo on the "Rough Mixes" CD, inside the Archive Collection edition of Wild Life.