Thanks to our friends at W.W. Norton, we are very thrilled, once again, to be in a position to offer one lucky (very lucky) Skylark customer an opportunity to own a little piece of music global history: a highly exclusive limited edition of Paul McCartney’s new book: Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run..
And when we say “highly exclusive,” we mean it. Each book is separately numbered and signed by the great man himself. There are 175 in the whole world.
After the success of the online auction for McCartney’s last book, 1964: Eyes of the Storm, we’ve decided to adopt a similar approach, and will be raising money to purchase books for local nonprofits who support literacy causes dear to our hearts.
If you would to own this unique piece of music history, email us your bid any time up until 9:00 p.m. CST on Monday, November 17. The highest bid at that time will. (More details/small print below.) Once we have cleared what we need to pay for the original book and cover our expenses, we will spend every single dollar raised over and above that amount on books for local nonprofits who are committed to literacy projects.
We want to make this as fair and as transparent as possible, so here are the rules:
All bids must be made by email to mail@skylarkbookshop.com. Bids submitted any other way will NOT be considered or accepted.
We will do our best to keep this page updated with the highest current bid - at least daily, hopefully more frequently. But, you know, we’re busy people, so you may have to be patient with us.
On which subject: PLEASE DO NOT CALL THE SHOP.
You can make as many bids as you like.
Bidding will end at 9:00 p.m. CST on Monday, November 17. ON THE DOT.
Missouri sales tax will be payable if the auction winner is a Missouri resident.
The winning bid will not include shipping. We will contact the winner and agree the best way of shipping the book at that point - there will be an additional charge for this.
Good luck!
CURRENT HIGH BID: $5,200.00
An engrossing oral history of a band that came to define a generation, the book tells the madcap story of Paul McCartney and his newly formed band, from their humble beginnings in the early 1970s to their dissolution barely a decade later. Drawn from over 500,000 words of interviews with McCartney, family and band members, and other key participants, Wings recounts—now with a half-century’s wisdom—the musical odyssey taken by a man searching for his identity in the aftermath of The Beatles’ breakup. Soon joined by his wife, American photographer Linda McCartney, on keyboard and vocals; drummer Denny Seiwell; and guitarist Denny Laine, McCartney sowed the seeds for a new band that would later provide the soundtrack of the decade.
The narrative begins when a twenty-seven-year-old superstar, rumored to be dead, fled with his new wife to a remote sheep farm in Scotland amid a sea of legal and personal rows. Despite the harsh conditions, the Scottish setting gave McCartney time to create, and it was here where this new band emerged. Wings then follows the group as they play unannounced shows at university halls, tour in a sheared-off double-decker bus with their children, survive a robbery on the streets of Nigeria, and eventually perform blockbuster stadium shows on their world tour, all while producing some of the most enduring music of the time.
Wings transports the reader, as if on a magic carpet, to the grit and glamour of the 1970s. Pushing creative forms to produce a new history, the book refracts a bygone era in a totally new light. Introduced with a personal, heartfelt foreword by McCartney, the volume contains 150 black-and-white and color photographs, many previously unseen, as well as timelines, a gigography, and a full discography. Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run emerges as a work of soaring originality that presents a new art form all its own.
Again, Norton are producing a special limited edition of 175 numbered and signed copies, packaged in a deluxe case. The edition includes:
A 24-page, bound-in, full-color booklet of artwork featuring the covers (front and back) of the Wings-era albums and singles.
It also includes an exclusive vinyl LP of WINGS, the forthcoming Wings collection. This record has been specially manufactured with a vinyl color and label unique to this edition. Can you say “collector’s item”?
Complementing the production are a special pin and a blue and white embroidered souvenir patch.
