Description

A special, signed and numbered limited edition of Paul McCartney’s revelatory oral history of Wings, including an exclusive copy of the new WINGS LP on coloured vinyl.

This is the story, in their own words, of a band that came to define a generation.

Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run tells the madcap history of Paul McCartney and his newly formed band, from their humble beginnings in the early 1970s to their dissolution barely a decade later. Drawn from over 500,000 words of interviews with McCartney, family and band members, and other key participants, Wings recounts the musical odyssey taken by a man searching for his identity in the aftermath of The Beatles’ breakup.

Soon joined by his wife –American photographer Linda McCartney – on keyboard and vocals, drummer Denny Seiwell and guitarist Denny Laine, McCartney sowed the seeds for a new band that would provide the soundtrack to the decade.

Organised chronologically around McCartney, RAM and nine Wings albums, with extraordinary recollections collected by Oscar-winning director Morgan Neville and edited into a genre-defining oral history by Ted Widmer, Wings transports the reader to the grit and glamour of the 1970s. It is introduced with a heartfelt foreword by McCartney and contains 150 black-and-white and colour photographs, many previously unseen, as well as timelines, a gigography and a full discography, in an art form all its own.

This is a special limited edition of 175 numbered copies, signed by Paul McCartney, and packaged in a deluxe case made of cloth with screen-printing, featuring full-colour album artwork. It includes:

• A 24-page, bound-in, full-color booklet of artwork featuring the covers (front and back) of the Wings-era albums and singles
• An exclusive vinyl – a 1LP of WINGS, the forthcoming Wings collection which has been specially manufactured with a vinyl colour and label unique to this edition
• A special pin and a blue and white embroidered souvenir patch