Coinciding with the release of Paul McCartney: Man on the Run, Morgan Neville's intimate new Oscar-, Emmy- and Grammy-winning documentary exploring Paul McCartney's creative rebirth after the breakup of the Beatles, Capitol Records, MPL Communications And UMG have announced the release of the soundtrack entitled Man on the Run – Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack.
The album includes classic songs and hits from across Paul McCartney and Wings' catalogue. A snapshot of Paul's creativity in the 70s in 12 songs. 'Arrow Through Me (Rough Mix)'an unreleased mix of the 1979 album sessions for Back to the EggAnd 'Live And Let Die (Rockshow)', from the 1980 concert film Rockshow, can be listened to exclusively on Amazon Music, ahead of release. The album will include a third previously unreleased song, 'Gotta Sing Gotta Dance'originally present in The James Paul McCartney TV Special (from 1973).
Both the soundtrack and the documentary will be released on February 27th. Man on the Run – Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack will be released in various formats: a limited edition “New York Taxi Yellow” colored vinyl by Jack White's Third Man Pressing plant, a 180g black vinyl, a CD and digitally. Each vinyl edition will also be accompanied by a Man on the Run poster.
The artwork was creatively directed by Paul McCartney and Aubrey 'Po' Powell of Hipgnosis, the iconic design studio that collaborated with Paul on eight Wings albums, including Band on the Run, Venus and Mars, Wings Over America, Wings Greatest and the 2025 anthology, WINGS. The illustrations were drawn by Peter Curzon of Storm Studios.
The documentary Paul McCartney: Man on the Run captures Paul's transformative decade following the breakup of the Beatles and the rise of his new band Wings. Through extraordinary archive images, Linda McCartney's exceptional photographs, interviews with Paul, Linda, Mary And Stella McCartneyseveral members of the band Wings, Sean Ono Lennon, Mick Jagger, Chrissie Hynde and others, the film examines this period with particular care, offering the viewer detailed insight.
Speaking about his approach to the film and the soundtrack, the director Morgan Neville he said:
“When we talk about the greatest artists of the '70s, the list rarely includes Paul McCartney. Not because he wasn't great – he was undoubtedly one of the most important musicians of the decade – but because of what he had already done. Paul had been in the biggest band in the world, which in turn had created its own gravitational force.
In my film, Man on the Run, I wanted to look at Paul's incredible run from that long shadow of the Beatles.
It was a trip full of unlikely choices: a van tour! Bruce McMouse! Nigeria! Thrillington! An Hymn to Scotland! But look together, the madness of those choices really started to seem smart. How else could one deal with the burden of expectations of such magnitude other than by doing the unexpected?
I also saw that over the decade, Paul stopped running from something and started running towards something else – his voice, his family, his life. This was the story of someone finding themselves.
This soundtrack is a snapshot of that journey told through his music. Each of these songs is the result of a creative impulse of who Paul was at that time. It was through song that Paul spoke, not only to the world, but also to himself. We are lucky enough to be able to hear all of this.”
Paul McCartney: Man on the Run is produced by Tremoloin collaboration with MPL Communications And Polygram Entertainment. The film will be available on Prime Video starting February 27 in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide. Among the producers: Morgan Neville, Chloe Simmons and Meghan Walsh for Tremolo; Scott Rodger and Ben Chappell for MPL and Michele Anthony and David Blackman for Polygram Entertainment. Executive producers include Paul McCartney and Caitrin Rogers. . The executive producers Man on the Run – Music from the Motion Soundtrack they are Paul McCartney and Morgan Neville.
The new film can be considered the last chapter of the Wings celebrations after a series of surprises for fans around the world. In fact, it was published in 2025 Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run by Liveright / WW Norton / Penguin. The tale of Paul's musical reinvention in the 1970s, as described by Sunday Times as “the story of a man who climbed every mountain, then set out to start all over again”. In parallel, the collection of the same name WINGS it was published in several formats and personally edited by Paul. The start of 2025 also celebrated one of Wings' most beloved albums, Venus and Mars50 years after the original release. Now available in a special edition on half speed vinyl and mixed for the first time in Dolby Atmos. All this in addition to the Paul's tour Got Backwhich included concerts in 18 different cities across the United States and Canada through 2025.
Man on the Run – Music from the Motion Picture Soundtracktracklist:
1 Wings – Silly Love Songs (Demo)
2 Paul McCartney – That Would Be Something (2011 Remaster)
3 Paul and Linda McCartney – Long Haired Lady (2012 Remaster)
4 Paul and Linda McCartney – Too Many People (2012 Remaster)
5 Paul McCartney and Wings – Big Barn Bed (2018 Remaster)
6 Paul McCartney – Gotta Sing Gotta Dance
7 Wings – Live and Let Die (Rockshow)
8 Paul McCartney and Wings – Band on the Run (2010 Remaster)
9 Wings – Arrow Through Me (Rough Mix)
10 Wings – Mull of Kintyre (2016 Remaster)
11 Paul McCartney – Coming Up (2011 Remaster)
12 Paul McCartney and Wings – Let Me Roll It (2010 Remaster)
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