Raising their glasses to the cameraman in front of a ramshackle wooden shack, this is the moment Sir Paul McCartney launched his new band Wings.
The newly-released photo is a unique snapshot of a moment in the career of one of Britain’s most successful musicians and came after McCartney and then wife Linda fled to their farm on the Kintyre peninsula in the wake of The Beatles acrimonious split.
Posing with the couple in the 1971 photo, which appears in a new anthology of Wings, are guitarist Denny Laine and drummer Denny Seiwell as the quartet stand in front of what was McCartney’s rustic studio at High Park Farm.
Personally overseen by Sir Paul, the new album is available in an impressive array of beautifully designed formats – all including the timeless international hits Band on the Run, Live and Let Die, and Jet.
It’s release comes as a new documentary Man on the Run sees Sir Paul recount how he and his family coped after the immediate fallout from the breakup of The Fab Four.
The documentary, produced by Amazon MGM, will be released in select theatres and subsequently available on Prime Video on February 25 in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide.
The film’s synopsis says: ‘Man on the Run takes viewers on an intimate journey through Paul McCartney’s extraordinary life following the breakup of The Beatles and the formation of Wings with his wife, Linda.’
Created by Academy Award-winning director Morgan Neville, the film is also said to chronicle ‘the arc of McCartney’s solo career as he faces down a myriad of challenges while creating new music to define a new decade’.
