Fly Away Paul

How Paul McCartney survived the Beatles and found his Wings

Lesley-Ann Jones

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Coronet
01 October 2023

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

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
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Illustrated edition
Dimensions: Height: 230mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 460g
ISBN: 9781399721783
ISBN 10: 139972178X
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 01 October 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
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.