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It’s going to be another Beatles winter. The expanded version will be published on November 21st “Beatle’s Anthology” on CD and LP and streaming. The documentary series of the same name, restored by Peter Jackson, starts on Disney+ on November 26th. But it will also be a Wings winter. From November 11th, Paul McCartney’s oral history of his second band – “Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run” – will be in bookstores. And in February, the independently conceived documentary “Man On The Run” by Morgan Neville (“20 Feet From Stardom”) will be shown on Amazon Prime, which sheds light on McCartney’s first decade after the Beatles.
“The Beatles had broken up and I thought: What do I do now?” asks McCartney in the first trailer for pictures that show him with his old band. “How can I ever create something even remotely as good as The Beatles? I was on my own for the first time. I had to go inside myself. So I started a new band. I thought we should start from scratch. It was a puzzle I had to solve.”
The rest is history, you might say. A very exciting one at that. Because it is the story of a reinvention. The Wings developed from a group rehearsing in barns, touring campuses in a double-decker bus, and reviled by critics into one of the biggest bands of the 1970s, releasing one of the best post-Beatles albums with “Band On The Run” and one of the best live albums ever with “Wings Over America”. “Man On The Run” tells of the self-doubts and fears, the difficult beginnings and subsequent triumphs with new interviews and never-before-seen images.