Description
Building on the work first presented in “Wings Live”, the author has unearthed a plethora of new evidence from newspapers, interviews, photographs and fan accounts. This book will appeal to the fan who wants to know every last detail about the band’s live work.
This Extended edition is 50% longer than the book “Wings Live”. The additional content includes:
- A fully revised chapter on Wings’ University Tour
- New unseen photographs of Wings in Helsinki in 1972
- A fully revised chapter on Wings’ 1973 British tour
- An interview with the DJ Dave Symonds, who saw Wings perform in Oxford in ’73 and interviewed McCartney
- A contribution from John Lennon’s drummer, Andy Newmark, about meeting McCartney in early 1974
- New research into Wings’ time at Junior’s Farm, Tennessee, in the summer of 1974
- An expanded and detailed account of Wings;’ historic tour of the USA in 1976
- New photographs of Wings’ 1979 British Tour
- Fourteen new fan accounts of concerts
- Brand new `features’ pages, which give context to the decade and its music
- A new interview with the Wings drummer Geoff Britton
- An interview with Yuri Pool, who plays McCartney in the show `The McCartney Years’
- An article entitled “Recollections of Meeting Paul McCartney” by Sheryl Walmsley
- An article about Wings Live bootlegs by Wings expert Tom Brennan
- A revised conclusion that takes into account the new evidence amassed in this edition
At over 600 pages and almost 200k words, this is probably the most detailed account of any band’s live work.
“With Wings Live, Adrian Allan traces the trials and tribulations of Paul McCartney’s daring effort to imagine a new group in the wake of The Beatles’ disbandment. Wings Live tells the often moving story of McCartney’s belief in the post-Beatles dream that catapulted him into superstardom in the 1970s.”
— Kenneth Womack, author of John Lennon 1980: The Last Days in the Life
