{"id":242886,"date":"2025-11-04T07:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T07:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/242886\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T07:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T07:34:08","slug":"as-many-people-ask-about-wings-as-the-beatles-says-mccartney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/242886\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;As many people ask about Wings as The Beatles&#8217; says McCartney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McCartney started Wings in 1971 with his late wife Linda McCartney and former Moody Blues guitarist Denny Laine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The times with Wings were exciting because we built up to it and eventually we hit the big time,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There was a particular kind of excitement in achieving that goal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The singer and bassist explained: &#8220;I don&#8217;t spend a lot of time looking back in general.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I like to live in the moment. Like everything else, it&#8217;s a timing thing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In recent years, I noticed I&#8217;d be asked just as many questions about Wings in interviews as I would about The Beatles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;People would tell me that the first thing they heard of mine was Band On The Run or Jet, or that their favourite album was a Wings one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The reception for these songs in our live shows often takes me by surprise too.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"McCartney started Wings in 1971 with his late wife Linda McCartney and former Moody Blues guitarist Denny Laine.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-242886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}