{"id":266581,"date":"2025-11-06T23:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T23:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/266581\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T23:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T23:50:08","slug":"paul-mccartney-exclusive-interview-at-first-john-george-and-ringo-werent-too-positive-about-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/266581\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul McCartney exclusive interview: \u2018At first, John, George and Ringo weren\u2019t too positive about Wings\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You get a sense, throughout, that this is a nomadic band: the McCartneys\u2019 young children, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/showbiz\/mary-mccartney-abbey-road-documentary-beatles-paul-linda-b1047193.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mary<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/stella-mccartney\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stella<\/a>, travelled with them in a sheared-off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/uk\/auctions-london-spain-hard-rock-cafe-marylebone-station-b1112575.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">double decker bus painted psychedelic colours<\/a>, which caused controversy at the time. \u201cWe always imagined that, if we didn\u2019t take the kids, we would end up in some far-flung place,\u201d McCartney tells me, \u201cand somebody would be ringing from England and saying, \u2018One of the kids is ill\u2019, and we\u2019d think, \u2018Oh, God, we should be there\u2026 We should be there with them.\u2019 So, we decided to take them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You get a sense, throughout, that this is a nomadic band: the McCartneys\u2019 young children, Mary and Stella,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75,9997,9998,9999],"class_list":{"0":"post-266581","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-john-lennon","13":"tag-paul-mccartney","14":"tag-the-beatles"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}