The follow-up to The McCartney Legacy Volume 1 the most complete work on the life and work of
Paul McCartney ever published. Volume 2 continues to paint the portrait of one of the world’s
greatest musicians his work post-Beatles and his life from 1974 to 1980. This second
installment of the groundbreaking multivolume set THE McCARTNEY LEGACY VOLUME 2: 1974-80
finds Paul McCartney in the afterglow of Band on the Run an album that topped the Billboard
200 three times in 1974 and won him his best reviews since his time in the Beatles. But he
also faced rebuilding his band Wings and getting it into shape not only for the studio work
that would follow his most successful album to date but also to tour Britain Europe and
Australia before conquering the USA with the groundbreaking Wings Over America tour. This
intensely creative time in McCartney’s life saw him writing and recording four studio albums
with Wings (Venus and Mars Wings at the Speed of Sound London Town and Back to the Egg) the
biggest selling British single of the 1970s ‘Mull of Kintyre ’ and a solo album packed with
electronic experimentalism McCartney II. During a period of diverse musical evolution
McCartney melded his own melody-driven approach with in-vogue styles like disco punk and new
wave. Away from Wings McCartney dabbled in music publishing science fiction writing
semi-autobiographical filmmaking animation viral marketing journalist boycotting and
smuggling cannabis past authority figures with mixed success. McGear an album Paul co-wrote
with his brother Mike tops a long list of lesser known projects and collaborations – some of
which never saw the light of day – that kept McCartney busy between hit records. For the second
half of this decade John Lennon George Harrison and Ringo Starr remained ever present in
McCartney’s life. Collaborations were mooted and multi-million dollar offers for one-off
reunion concerts were plentiful but the scars of the Beatles’ bitter separation and their
complex hard to untangle business ties complicated their private and public relationships. THE
McCARTNEY LEGACY series is the first truly comprehensive biography and the most finely
detailed exploration of McCartney’s creative life beyond the Beatles ever undertaken. As well
as thousands of never-before-seen documents this volume is informed by hundreds of interviews
including exclusive collaborations with all four surviving members of Wings – Geoff Britton
Joe English Steve Holley and Laurence Juber – plus countless other including producers
musicians recording engineers designers and architects who worked with McCartney between
1974-80.
