Paul McCartney has introduced Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run, a brand new 528-page e-book chronicling the formation and adventures of his Nineteen Seventies band Wings after the Beatles ended. Written by McCartney and that includes an introduction by editor Ted Widmer, the e-book comes out on Tuesday, November 4.
Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run begins with the band’s founding in 1971—with Linda McCartney, Denny Laine, and Denny Seiwell—and is organized round their 9 albums, together with the 1973 staple Band on the Run, on by way of to their dissolution in 1981. Past tapping into his personal reminiscences, McCartney interviewed his former bandmates, members of the family, and key gamers of that period to correctly revisit what outlined Wings’ profession. The e-book additionally consists of 150 black-and-white and colour pictures, lots of that are beforehand unseen.
“I’m so very joyful to be transported again to the time that was Wings and relive a few of our madcap adventures by way of this e-book,” acknowledged McCartney. “Ranging from scratch after the Beatles felt loopy at instances. There have been some very troublesome moments and I typically questioned my choice. However as we bought higher I assumed, ‘OK that is actually good.’ We proved Wings might be a extremely good band, to play to very large audiences in the identical method the Beatles had and have an effect otherwise. It was an enormous buzz.”
Final yr, Wings launched a fiftieth anniversary version of Band on the Run, in addition to the much-bootlegged stay studio album One Hand Clapping. Revisit Pitchfork’s 2007 interview with McCartney.
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