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Paul McCartney Looks Back on Death Rumors in New 'Wings' Book

‘Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run’ book cover. (Liveright, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company) Paul McCartney looks back at the infamous rumors that he’d died in the 1960s in his upcoming new book, Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run.  As the story went, conspiracy theorists alleged that the Beatles member had actually died in the mid-’60s and had been replaced by a lookalike. As a piece of evidence, they claimed that John Lennon said th…

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Paul McCartney writes his experience after the separation of the Beatles, along with a cognitive bias effect spread over his alleged death—initiated in the mouth of an American DJ—in the fall of 1969, which gained strength and caused his fans to call the gossip true. Paul asks his wife “how could he be dead?”, mentioning that it was this kind of “ridiculous headlines in the papers” that made them move from London to live on a remote farm in Scot…

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Paul McCartney has become world famous with the Beatles, but he also played in another band. A book is published about the Wings - and the music icon looks back.

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