03514cam a2200337 4500 2661566728 TxAuBib 20260121120000.0 ||||||s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9798897564606 087fd1f7-a286-488e-bdb4-06a379db6487 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 12069560 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib McCartney, Paul. Wings [Bridges Audiobook] : The Story of a Band on the Run. Recorded Books, Inc., 2025. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 363MB. HTML:<p><b>"We made what seemed like an impossible dream come true." ―Paul McCartney</b></p> <p>An engrossing oral history of a band that came to define a generation, <i>Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run</i> tells the madcap story of Paul McCartney and his newly formed band, from their humble beginnings in the early 1970s to their dissolution barely a decade later. Drawn from over 500,000 words of interviews with McCartney, family and band members, and other key participants, <i>Wings</i> recounts―now with a half-century's wisdom―the musical odyssey taken by a man searching for his identity in the aftermath of The Beatles' breakup. Soon joined by his wife American photographer Linda McCartney on keyboard and vocals; drummer Denny Seiwell; and guitarist Denny Laine, McCartney sowed the seeds for a new band that would later provide the soundtrack of the decade.<br /> Organized chronologically around <i>McCartney</i>, <i>RAM</i>, and nine Wings albums, the narrative begins when a twenty-seven-year-old superstar, rumored to be dead, fled with his new wife to a remote sheep farm in Scotland amid a sea of legal and personal rows. Despite the harsh conditions, the Scottish setting gave McCartney time to create, and it was here where this new band emerged. <i>Wings</i> then follows the group as they play unannounced shows at university halls, tour in a sheared-off double-decker bus with their children, survive a robbery on the streets of Nigeria, and eventually perform blockbuster stadium shows on their world tour, all while producing some of the most enduring music of the time.<br /> With extraordinary recollections collected by Oscar-winning director Morgan Neville and edited into a genre-defining oral history by Ted Widmer, <i>Wings</i> transports the reader, as if on a magic carpet, to the grit and glamour of the 1970s. Pushing creative forms to produce a new history, even a Wings bible, the book refracts a bygone era in a totally new light. Introduced with a personal, heartfelt foreword by Paul McCartney—and featuring narrated contributions from Paul McCartney, Mary McCartney, and Stella McCartney, alongside narrator Barry Sloane and voice actors Amy Noble and John Sackville—<i>Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run</i> emerges as a work of soaring originality that presents a new art form all its own.</p>. Biography & Autobiography. Performing Arts. Nonfiction. Music. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2026-01-20 13:53:57. Widmer, Ted. Sloane, Barry. Noble, Amy. Sackville, John. McCartney, Mary. McCartney, Stella. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=087fd1f7-a286-488e-bdb4-06a379db6487&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)