Mick Jagger<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\t\u201cFor so many decades,\u201d McCartney recalls in the excerpt, \u201cI tried to pack away these stories about how I felt when the Beatles collapsed and what happened in that period just as we were launching Wings.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tWhen the Beatles fell apart in early 1970, McCartney was lost and confused, with no idea how to move forward. So he started up a whole new band, with his wife Linda. It sounded like a crazy idea. As he says, \u201cWhen Linda joined Wings, eyebrows were raised, and not only in the press, Mick Jagger adding, \u2018Wot\u2019s he got his old lady in the band for?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tThe Wings <\/em>book is a massive oral history edited by Ted Widmer, from new interviews by filmmaker Morgan Neville (20 Feet From Stardom<\/em>). It accompanies Neville\u2019s upcoming documentary Man on the Run<\/em>, which recently debuted at the Telluride Film Festival. The book has 150 photographs, with Paul\u2019s handwritten lyrics and diary entries, along with commentary from Linda McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, George Martin, Sean Ono Lennon, Jann Wenner, Yoko Ono, Mick Jagger, and all the members of Wings.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\tThe book follows the story from McCartney\u2019s 1969 solo debut and the 1971 classic Ram<\/em>. But instead of going for superstar sessions, or high-profile solo shows, he recruits a new band and starts over from scratch, based from his Scottish farm, hustling the way his old band used to in the early days. They drive around to universities and play tiny shows for surprised students, with that experimental spirit. \u201cThe fact was that we could just try things and just do them,\u201d McCartney recalls. \u201cIf it worked, great. If it didn\u2019t, just go to another idea.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n
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\n\tBut Wings blew up into one of the Seventies\u2019 biggest arena-rock groups, making classics like Band on the Run <\/em>and Venus and Mars<\/em>. The band is also dropping a definitive triple-vinyl anthology set, personally selected by McCartney. It has the hits you\u2019d expect, like \u201cJet,\u201d \u201cHi, Hi, Hi,\u201d \u201cBand on the Run,\u201d \u201cLive and Let Die,\u201d and \u201cLet Me Roll It.\u201d But it\u2019s also full of deep cuts (\u201cDeliver Your Children,\u201d \u201cI\u2019ve Had Enough,\u201d \u201cSome People Never Know\u201d) and fan-fave oddities like \u201cShe\u2019s My Baby\u201d and \u201cCall Me Back Again.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n
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\n\tThe band ended in 1980, after an episode McCartney has rarely discussed in depth before\u2014his nine-day stay in a Japanese prison, after a drug bust at the Tokyo airport. For years, he was reluctant to reclaim this period. \u201cBut suddenly, Wings has found its moment again,\u201d he recalls. \u201cI remember doing an interview with a young guy, I think it was with Rolling Stone, and I was talking about Sgt. Pepper<\/em> and the Beatles. And he said, \u2018Well, yeah, I get that, but that\u2019s not really my period.\u2019 He said, \u2018I\u2019m more interested in Wings and Band on the Run<\/em>.\u2019 I thought, here we go. We have a generational shift at work.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\tWings<\/em> comes at a typically busy time for McCartney. He\u2019s currently on his long-running Got Back tour, playing his marathon shows in the U.S. and Canada, wrapping up on November 25 in Chicago.\u00a0 Later this month, The Beatles\u2019 beloved Anthology<\/em> doc is returning in a long-awaited new version \u2014 restored, expanded, and remastered, with a new episode streaming on Disney + beginning November 26.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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