Paul McCartney’s Wings Doc Heads To Theaters

Paul McCartney and Wings in 1974 (photo: Michael Putland / Getty Images).

The Paul McCartney/Wings documentary Man on the Run will screen for one night only Feb. 19 at cinemas worldwide, eight days ahead of its streaming premiere on Amazon’s Prime Video. The theatrical showings will also include an exclusive, pre-recorded conversation between McCartney and director Morgan Neville. Click here for tickets.

Beginning in 1970, the film chronicles McCartney’s post-Beatles years and his 30-year relationship with his late wife Linda. It is drawn from “unprecedented access to a never-before-seen archive of Paul and Linda’s home videos and photos, as well as new interviews” with the couple’s children, Wings band members, Sean Ono Lennon, Mick Jagger and Chrissie Hynde.

Man on the Run begins with McCartney “navigating the aftermath of the break-up of the Beatles, facing down myriad challenges while creating new music that would ultimately become the defining soundtrack of a new decade.” It is said to be “the definitive document of Paul’s emergence from the dissolution of the world’s biggest band, and his triumphant creation of a second decade of musical milestones.”

That second decade was dominated by McCartney’s tenure with Wings, which included Linda on keyboards and became an arena-filling band in its own right thanks to albums such as Band on the Run (1973) and Venus and Mars (1975). McCartney also released acclaimed solo work attributed to himself (1970’s McCartney) or in tandem with Linda (1971’s Ram) before Wings dissolved in 1980. Linda McCartney died of cancer in 1998 at the age of 56.

McCartney, who turns 84 in June, is expected to release a new studio album this spring. It will be the follow-up to 2020’s McCartney III, which debuted at No. 1 in the U.K. and No. 2 on the Billboard 200.