# Wings

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- Book: [Wings](https://www.bookquiver.com/paul-mccartney/wings) ([Wings.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/paul-mccartney/wings.md))
- Authors: [Paul McCartney](https://www.bookquiver.com/paul-mccartney)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-18-0206-927-3
- Pages: 592
- Published: 2026-10-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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.