An engrossing oral history of a band that came to define a generation, Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run 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.
There is still much to be excavated from what is the most examined life in pop music history, especially when it comes from the horse’s mouth ... The book’s best stuff is to be found at the start, when the superstar was making his first baby steps toward renewed relevance, and then found it.
Widmer does an expert job of stitching this into a compelling narrative that includes cultural context ... Wings was always bound to be a spin-off from the Beatles universe – but what a spin-off it was.
