oral history

The first decade of Paul McCartney’s second act is fully illuminated in “Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run,” an oral history drawn from interviews with band and family members, as well as other interested parties, and edited by Ted Widmer.

“I just believe in service,” she said in an oral history interview with the Eastern Kentucky University Research Center for Special Collections & Archives.

“I just turned to the person next to me,” she said in an oral history interview, “and I said: When I sing again, it’s going to be with that band.”

“We were facing things that the average person would never even consider,” Basheer said in the “Storytelling Project” oral history.

While McCartney was unquestionably the band’s reigning star, his bandmates’ contributions to Wings’ commanding success during the 1970s is amply demonstrated in McCartney and Widmer’s expansive oral history.