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Band on the Run (Paperback)

By: Garry McGee (Author)


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Behind-the-scenes controversy runs rampant in BAND ON THE RUN, Garry McGee's gossipy biography of Wings, Paul McCartney's post-Beatles return to the world of pop. A band with a high personnel turnover, going through six incarnations in its lifetime from 1971 to 1981, Wings emerges as less a collaboration of like-minded musicians than an extension of its leader's ego. McGee depicts the controversy over Paul's non-musician wife Linda's inclusion in Wings' line-up, and McCartney's Scrooge-like attitude towards the payment of his fellow musicians, who are kept on a wage despite the band's string of million-selling records like 1976's "Silly Love Songs" and 1977's "Mull of Kintyre." Troubled guitarist Jimmy McCulloch is found dead under suspicious and still unexplained circumstances, McCartney neglects to attend his own father's funeral, and the band's tour of Japan is canceled when its leader is arrested after marijuana is found in his suitcase. Along the way, hit records and sold-out tours alternate with petty bickering and half-baked publicity stunts in an illuminating refutation of the popular view of Paul McCartney as a smooth image manipulator. Wings' 1970s pop legacy may be very much of its era, but McGee's tale is a revealing account of the background to the first decade of McCartney's post-Fab Four career.



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