Fly Away Paul

How Paul McCartney survived the Beatles and found his Wings

Lesley-Ann Jones

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Coronet Books
20 March 2024

Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Memoirs; Prose: non-fiction

'No other book has come close to capturing so well what Paul McCartney is about, nor described so vividly his mental breakdown when the Beatles separated, nor his need for Linda to nurse him back to good health...the book is packed with trivia, not for the sake of it but because it throws light onto the way Paul developed. And it's fascinating; every word of it.

It's an extraordinarily brilliant book.' SIMON NAPIER-BELL

'The most brilliant journalism ...

Captivating.' STEVE HARLEY, COCKNEY REBEL

'...another amazing book. Your meticulous research is second to none.' JOHNNIE WALKER

The first definitive account of Paul McCartney's time in Wings, publishing on the fiftieth anniversary of the bestselling album Band on the Run

No comprehensive biography of the time Paul McCartney spent with Wings

has ever been published.

A period often dismissed as McCartney's 'missing' years, in fact the band

lasted

for a decade: two years longer than the Beatles, and wielded such impact and influence that they at one point achieved the

status as the biggest live band in the world.

Band on the Run sold over 6 million copies worldwide and became EMI's biggest selling album of the 1970s in the UK.

Music biographer Lesley-Ann Jones has met McCartney many times and knew his late wife Linda. Here she shows how crucial Linda was to the evolution of Wings - at great cost to herself given the ridicule she was to encounter. But Linda saw that McCartney needed the band in the wake of the break up of the Beatles.

Drawing on extensive interviews and her trademark meticulous research,

the author shows how this period in Paul McCartney's career was to become crucial not only to his development as an artist, but to his very survival.

By: Lesley-Ann Jones
Imprint: Coronet Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Illustrated edition
Dimensions: Height: 236mm, Width: 162mm, Spine: 34mm
Weight: 589g
ISBN: 9781399721776
ISBN 10: 1399721771
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 20 March 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Lesley-Ann Jones is a journalist, newspaper columnist and broadcaster. The author of eight published books, she has enjoyed more than twenty-five years in music and the media. She lives in South-East London with her young children, the eldest having grown up and gone into the music business.