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  • Published: 13 October 2026
  • ISBN: 9781802069273
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 576
  • RRP: $36.99
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Wings

The Story of a Band on the Run

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13 Oct 2026
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18 Nov 2025
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4 Nov 2025
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4 Nov 2025
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The madcap history of Paul McCartney and Wings, in their own words

Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run tells the 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.

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. Introduced with a heartfelt foreword by McCartney, Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run 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.
  • Published: 13 October 2026
  • ISBN: 9781802069273
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 576
  • RRP: $36.99
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Praise for Wings

Compelling ... a portal into a more eccentric age of pop, a fable about the tension between celebrity and creativity

Guardian

The astonishing, unruly story of how [Paul McCartney found] a way to exist alongside his inescapable past .... interleaved with rich archive material [and] elegantly annotated with timelines and discographies, this book skilfully patchworks together testimony from all the Beatles, McCartney’s family, friends and bandmates, and external sources ... demanding re-evaluation, fostering revelation

Sunday Times

An engrossing testimony about [McCartney's] post-Beatles renaissance

Financial Times, Books of the Year

A must-read ... Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run takes readers on an inspiring journey from the rudimentary efforts behind Wings' Wild Life in 1971 through the apex of arena rock in the mid-1970s and beyond

Salon