Editor’s Letter
When we first approached his office with the idea we’d had of talking to Paul McCartney
about that period of his career that covered his final split with The Beatles and the music
he went on to make with Wings, we weren’t sure what his response might be. A lot has lately
been going on in his life, sadly not all of it even remotely pleasant, and there have
understandably been a fraught few moments with the press. You could imagine him maybe
considering the proposition and just as easily imagine him turning it down.
In the event, McCartney’s people were back to us quickly with an answer, which was that yes,
Paul was more than keen to have his say about what he’d achieved with Wings. We got the
impression that not only were there stories to be told, memories to be revisited, but that this
was a chance to make clear how proud he was of the records he made with Wings and simultaneously
challenge the notion that, even at their best, Wings were not much more than a secondrate
Beatles – were, in fact, in the immortal words of Alan Partridge “the group The Beatles could
have been”.
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