Paul McCartney has introduced Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run, a brand new 528-page ebook chronicling the formation and adventures of his Seventies band Wings after the Beatles ended. Written by McCartney and that includes an introduction by editor Ted Widmer, the ebook 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 via to their dissolution in 1981. Past tapping into his personal recollections, McCartney interviewed his former bandmates, members of the family, and key gamers of that period to correctly revisit what outlined Wings’ profession. The ebook additionally consists of 150 black-and-white and colour images, lots of that are beforehand unseen.
“I’m so very blissful to be transported again to the time that was Wings and relive a few of our madcap adventures via this ebook,” acknowledged McCartney. “Ranging from scratch after the Beatles felt loopy at instances. There have been some very troublesome moments and I usually questioned my determination. However as we bought higher I assumed, ‘OK that is actually good.’ We proved Wings might be a very good band, to play to large audiences in the identical manner the Beatles had and have an effect differently. It was an enormous buzz.”
Final yr, Wings launched a fiftieth anniversary version of Band on the Run, in addition to the much-bootlegged reside studio album One Hand Clapping. Revisit Pitchfork’s 2007 interview with McCartney.
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