A new audiobook called Man on the Run<\/a><\/strong><\/em> goes considerably further. Available exclusively from Audible (Amazon\u2019s digital audiobook service), the three-hour volume expands on the recent video documentary<\/a><\/strong> of the same name, and it\u2019s built entirely around Paul\u2019s first-person narrative. His voice. His words. His stories, including ones he\u2019s never told before.<\/p> This is the kind of deep dive that some viewers believed was lacking in the video documentary.<\/p> Paul announced the project last night, saying that the audio was drawn from his interviews with Morgan Neville, who directed the video documentary:<\/p> I don\u2019t normally spend a lot of time looking back, but I was flattered when Morgan said he was interested in this period. The first bit of Wings was quite hard work and not very rewarding, but eventually we got some songs under our belts that were hits. Morgan got me to think about stuff I hadn\u2019t thought about for a long time. He was asking all the right questions and I was happy to be transported back.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote> Running through the entire project is Paul\u2019s relationship with John Lennon<\/strong>\u2014which is perhaps the most written-about friendship in rock history and still, apparently, capable of yielding new material. 💔<\/p> Stories emerge here about their reconnection during the \u201cbread strike\u201d\u2014a period in the mid-1970s when Paul and John were briefly in closer contact than the official breakup narrative typically acknowledges. And there is a performance of \u201cYesterday\u201d with John\u2019s original introduction that the project includes\u2014a recording that places the most covered song in history back in the context of the friendship that produced it.<\/p> Then there is the conversation recorded on December 8th, 2025<\/strong>\u2014the 45th anniversary of John’s murder. One of the project’s three-year series of interviews between McCartney and Neville took place on that specific date, and the announcement acknowledges it explicitly. Paul McCartney, sitting down with Neville to talk about the decade after the Beatles ended, doing so on the anniversary of the day John was killed on the street outside his New York apartment.<\/p> The period covered is 1970 through the end of the Wings era\u2014the decade that followed the most public and acrimonious breakup in the history of popular music. Paul has described it plainly: in 1970, when the Beatles ended, he faced his greatest challenge. Starting over. 🌿<\/p> What that starting over actually looked like is what the Audible project excavates. The retreat to Scotland\u2014which has always been mentioned in Beatles biographies as a kind of collapse, a depression, a withdrawal\u2014is examined here with the kind of personal detail that only comes from a man who has finally decided to linger in it rather than move past it. Paul talks about building a baby bed for his daughter Mary from potato pallets. About teaching his children to read. About the specific texture of isolation and what it felt like to be the most famous musician in the world and want nothing more than to disappear into a Scottish farm.<\/p> The creative rebirth with Linda McCartney gets its proper treatment here too\u2014not just as a career pivot but as the deeply personal story it was. Two people who found each other at exactly the moment when finding someone was the difference between survival and something else. The formation of Wings. The early years that Paul himself describes as \u201cquite hard work and not very rewarding.\u201d The grinding process of building something from nothing after having been part of the greatest band in history. And then, finally, Band on the Run<\/em>\u2014the album recorded in Lagos with a depleted lineup, under terrible circumstances, that turned out to be one of the great comeback records in rock history. 💛<\/p> Neville designed his interviews with Paul as conversations rather than formal interviews, allowing thoughts to develop organically rather than following a predetermined structure.<\/p> The result is an immersive audio experience that feels, by all accounts, less like a press interview and more like sitting in a room with Paul McCartney while he actually thinks through his own history\u2014arriving at memories rather than reciting them.<\/p> Paul McCartney is 83 years old. He has been telling versions of his own story for 60 years, and the conventional wisdom is that everything worth knowing has already been said. Projects like this one suggest otherwise. The Wings rehabilitation is underway in a way that feels genuine rather than revisionist. Paul is spending real creative energy on this period of his life, which suggests he believes it has not been properly understood. 🌟<\/p> He may be right. Band on the Run<\/em> has always been celebrated. The decade that produced it\u2014the depression, the isolation, the grinding early Wings years, the relationship with Linda that held everything together\u2014has been less examined than it deserves. This project is the examination.<\/p> McCartney also announced two intimate shows billed as \u201cPaul McCartney Rocks the Fonda!\u201d at the Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles on March 27 and 28, 2026\u2014his first performances since the conclusion of his Got Back Tour 2025 in November.<\/p> The Fonda Theatre holds approximately 1,200 people, making these shows a dramatically smaller setting than his typical stadium and arena concerts.<\/p> On tickets:<\/strong> Registration opened March 17 and closed March 18 at 10 PM PT. Tickets are limited to two per customer, and registering does not guarantee the ability to purchase\u2014registered fans receive an invitation email if selected. <\/p> So unfortunately the registration window has already closed as of today. If you didn\u2019t register, the secondary market (StubHub, Vivid Seats, etc.) will be the only option, and given the size of the venue and the demand, prices will almost certainly be significant.<\/p> This also fits a pattern worth noting: McCartney played three surprise dates at New York City\u2019s 500-seat Bowery Ballroom in February 2025 before launching the larger \u201cGot Back\u201d Tour later that year. He seems to genuinely enjoy these occasional small-venue moments between the stadium runs.<\/p> A preview of things to come?<\/p> Depression, potato pallets, and a conversation recorded on December 8th<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"amazonpipp_noncename":"","amazon-product-isactive":"","amazon-product-single-asin":"","amazon-product-content-location":"","amazon-product-content-hook-override":"","amazon-product-excerpt-hook-override":"","amazon-product-singular-only":"","amazon-product-amazon-desc":"","amazon-product-show-gallery":"","amazon-product-show-features":"","amazon-product-newwindow":"","amazon-product-show-list-price":"","amazon-product-show-used-price":"","amazon-product-show-saved-amt":"","amazon-product-timestamp":"","amazon-product-new-title":"","amazon-product-use-cartURL":"","amazon_featured_post_meta_key":"","_amazon_featured_alt":"","amazon-product-template":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[33,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2x2Mt-cXT0Q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weberbooks.com\/kindle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191588856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weberbooks.com\/kindle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weberbooks.com\/kindle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weberbooks.com\/kindle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weberbooks.com\/kindle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191588856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.weberbooks.com\/kindle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191588856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194564195,"href":"https:\/\/www.weberbooks.com\/kindle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191588856\/revisions\/194564195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weberbooks.com\/kindle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191588856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weberbooks.com\/kindle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191588856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weberbooks.com\/kindle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191588856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The John Lennon Thread<\/h2>
The Most Transformative Period of His Life<\/h2>
Why This Matters<\/h2>
Also: Paul Will Play Two Los Angeles Shows Later This Month<\/h2>
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