Paul McCartney will tell the story of his second-most famous band in a book coming later this year.
Liveright will publish the rock star’s Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run, edited by historian Ted Widmer, in the fall, the press announced in a news release. It calls the book “the engrossing oral history of a band that came to define a generation.”
McCartney formed Wings in 1971, after the Beatles disbanded and he’d released two solo albums. McCartney was the lead singer of the group, which also included his wife, Linda McCartney, along with Denny Laine and Denny Seiwell.
Wings broke through in 1973 with the album Band on the Run; the record spawned two hit singles, “Jet” and the title track. The band would go on to have hit singles with “Listen to What the Man Said,” “Silly Love Songs,” and “Let ’Em In,” before breaking up in 1981.
McCartney’s book, Liveright says, “follows the adventurous band as they survive a robbery on the streets of Nigeria, appear unannounced at various university halls, tour in a sheared-off double-decker bus with their children, all while producing some of the most enduring music of the decade.”
McCartney is the author of several children’s books, and in 2021 he published The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present, which became a No. 1 New York Times bestseller. Two years later, he released 1964: Eyes of the Storm, a collection of photographs chronicling the early days of Beatlemania.
Wings is scheduled for publication on Nov. 4.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
