The book is part of a wider re-examination of the band’s catalogue, which has included the theatrical release last year of performance film One Hand Clapping and its accompanying album, 50th anniversary editions of Band on the Run (released last year) and Venus and Mars (released next month), and a forthcoming documentary about McCartney’s solo and Wings-related work of the 70s by film-maker Morgan Neville.
Formed in 1971, Wings released seven studio albums, a live album and a compilation album over the ensuing decade, including Band on the Run, Venus and Mars, and At the Speed of Sound.
Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run, by McCartney and historian Ted Widmer, will hit UK and US bookshops on 4 November.
Described as an “oral history”, the book will remember Wings’ songs, collaborations and performances, drawing on interviews with McCartney and others in the band’s orbit.
Organised around nine Wings albums, the book “sheds new light on the immediate aftermath and seismic global impact of the Beatles’ break-up”, according to its publisher, Penguin imprint Allen Lane.
