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Paul McCartney on SNL 16 May 2026 Noise11

Paul McCartney Closes Saturday Night Live Season Finale With Surprise ‘Coming Up’ Performance

by Paul Cashmere

Paul McCartney returned to Saturday Night Live for the ninth time, performing songs from forthcoming album The Boys Of Dungeon Lane alongside Wings and solo classics.

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Paul McCartney and director Morgan Neville discussing the 1970s Wings era for the documentary Man On The Run

Paul McCartney Reflects On Wings Era In ‘Man On The Run’ Conversation With Director Morgan Neville

by Paul Cashmere

Paul McCartney reflects on the uncertain years after The Beatles and the creation of Wings in a conversation with Man On The Run director Morgan Neville.

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Paul McCartney in Santiago October 2024 photo by Karen Freedman

Paul McCartney Plays Rare Intimate Shows At Hollywood’s Fonda Theatre

by Paul Cashmere

Paul McCartney returned to the stage for two rare intimate concerts at Hollywood’s 1,200-capacity Fonda Theatre, performing a condensed set of Beatles, Wings and solo classics ahead of his upcoming album The Boys Of Dungeon Lane.

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Paul McCartney Wings At The Speed of Sound

Wings At The Speed Of Sound Celebrates 50 Years Of Paul McCartney’s Chart-Topping Statement

by Paul Cashmere

Paul McCartney’s Wings At The Speed Of Sound turns 50, marking a pivotal album that redefined Wings as a band and delivered global chart success.

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Paul McCartney Man On The Run

Paul McCartney Man On The Run Companion Album Announced

by Paul Cashmere

Paul McCartney revisits the Wings years with Man On The Run, a new soundtrack album tied to the upcoming documentary exploring his 1970s creative rebirth.

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Paul McCartney Man On The Run

Paul McCartney Documentary Man On The Run Heads To Australia With First Trailer Revealed

by Paul Cashmere

A new Paul McCartney documentary, Man On The Run, explores his post-Beatles reinvention and the rise of Wings, streaming on Prime Video from February 27.

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Wings Definitive Collection

Paul McCartney Announces WINGS, a Definitive ‘Best Of’ Collection with Exclusive Dolby Atmos Blu-ray Audio

by Noise11.com

Paul McCartney has today announced WINGS, a career-spanning ‘best of’ compilation celebrating his work with Wings. The collection will be available in multiple formats, including a McCartney and SDE-exclusive Blu-ray Audio edition featuring Dolby Atmos mixes, set for release on 7 November 2025 via Capitol/UMe.

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Paul McCartney Venus and Mars

Paul McCartney and Wings Classic ‘Venus and Mars’ To Get 50th Anniversary Treatment

by Paul Cashmere

‘Venus and Mars’, the fourth Paul McCartney Wings album, will be reissued in March as a half-speed master.

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Paul McCartney in Santiago October 2024 photo by Karen Freedman

Paul McCartney Plays Santiago, Karen Freedman Reviews of Noise11.com

by Karen Freedman

Eighty two. Paul McCartney is 82. (Well, I guess it makes a change to referring to the good Sir as an ex-Beatle). Now, where was I? Oh yes, in Santiago, Chile, at the Estadio Monumental, watching this magnificent human perform to and thrill thousands of people. It is always heartwarming to see multi generations singing along to all the songs at a Paul McCartney show. More impressively here, because most people speak only Spanish.

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Paul McCartney One Hand Clapping

Paul McCartney & Wings Rare Documentary One Hand Clapping Is Heading To Cinemas

by Paul Cashmere

Paul McCartney & Wings 50 year old documentary ‘One Hand Clapping’ will be seen worldwide in cinemas for the first time in September.

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John Lennon Mind Games box

John Lennon Once Tried to Get Wings, The Stones and Plastic Ono Band To Do A Show Together

by Paul Cashmere

In 1972 after The Beatles had broken up John Lennon asked Paul McCartney if he would do a benefit show with Wings, The Stones and Plastic Ono Band.

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Paul McCartney and Wings One Hand Clapping

Paul McCartney Premieres Video for 50 Year Old ‘Soily’

by Paul Cashmere

In April 1974 Paul McCartney and Wings gathered at Abbey Road Studios in London for the filming of a documentary and release of a live album to be called ‘One Hand Clapping’. The album was finally released this week, 50 years later on 14 June 2024.

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Paul McCartney Band On The Run

Paul McCartney Premieres New 4K Video of ‘Mamunia’

by Paul Cashmere

Paul McCartney has premiered a new 4K upgrade for the video of the ‘Band on the Run’ song ‘Mamunia’ ahead of the 50th anniversary release of the album.

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Wings London Town

Wings and Moody Blues Guitarist Denny Laine Dies At Age 79

by Paul Cashmere

Singer, guitarist and composer Denny Laine, the co-founder of Wings with Paul McCartney and also co-founder of The Moody Blues, has died at the age of 79.

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Wings Band On The Run 50th Anniversary Edition To Be Released

by Paul Cashmere

Wings’ classic ‘Band On the Run’ will be reissued in 2024 to mark the 50th anniversary of the album’s release in November 1973.

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Paul McCartney Got Back 2023

Paul McCartney Is Getting Better All The Time At Most Likely His Last Ever Melbourne Show #Review

by Paul Cashmere

The Beatles played six concerts in Melbourne on that one and only Australian tour of 1964, two shows each on the 15, 16 and 17th of June. The next time Paul was in Melbourne was for two Wings concerts on 13 and 14 November, 1975. There were two MCG concerts on 9 and 10 March, 1993, and two AAMI Park shows on 6 and 7 December, 2017. 21 October, 2023 at Marvel Stadium was special. It was the 13th and most likely the last time Sir Paul McCartney will ever perform in Melbourne, Australia.

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Paul McCartney Wings Over Europe tour bus

The Wings 1972 Tour Bus Is Going To Auction

by Paul Cashmere

The actual double deck bus used by Paul McCartney and Wings for their 1972 tour is going to be auctioned.

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Paul McCartney and Wings Wings Wild Life

Paul McCartney and Wings ‘Wild Life’ Album Turns 50

by Paul Cashmere

‘Wild Life’, the third post-Beatles album for Paul McCartney, was released 50 years ago this week.

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Low Cut Connie

Low Cut Connie Covers Paul McCartney and Wings

by Paul Cashmere @paulcashmere

Low Cut Connie’s latest lockdown cover is Paul McCartney and Wings ‘Let Me Roll It’.

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Paul McCartney

Paul McCartney To Publish New Book ‘The Lyrics 1956 to the Present’

by Paul Cashmere

Paul McCartney will publish a hard cover book of his lyrics in November. ‘The Lyrics 1956 to Present’ is two volumes and 154 McCartney song lyrics from all stages of his career.

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Trevor Hall

Trevor Hall and Wife Emory May Be The First Singer/Photographer Married Couple To Collaborate

by Paul Cashmere

Singer songwriter Trevor Hall and his photographer wife Emory may just be the first singer/songwriter and photographer married couple to collaborate on an album.

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Paul McCartney at AAMI Park Melbourne on Tuesday 5 December 2017. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Paul McCartney ‘Red Rose Speedway’ was Meant to be a Double Album

by Paul Cashmere

Paul McCartney’s 1973 ‘Red Rose Speedway’ was originally planned as a double album.

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Paul McCartney The Bruce McMouse Show

Paul McCartney presents The Bruce McMouse Show

by Paul Cashmere

Paul McCartney is about to release the part animated/part concert The Bruce McMouse Show, featuring footage from his 1972 Red Rose Speedway tour.

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Paul McCartney performs at AAMI Park Melbourne. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Paul McCartney Pays Tribute To Late Wife Linda

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Linda Eastman was already a successful celebrity photographer when she met Paul McCartney in May 1967 at London’s Bag O’Nails Club. A year later, they got together again while Paul and John Lennon were in New York to inaugurate Apple Records.

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Paul McCartney performs at AAMI Park Melbourne. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Paul McCartney One On One Tour Grossed Over $132 Million In 2017

by Paul Cashmere

Paul McCartney ‘One on One’ tour was the highest grossing tour of 2017 with the tour earning over $132 million this year.

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Tim Buckley Wings

Tim Buckley Is Getting A Singles Collection Make-Over

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

While contemporary audiences are more familiar with his son, the late Jeff Buckley, Tim Buckley was as an influential musician, if not more so, as his own famous son.

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Henry McCullough

R.I.P. Henry McCullough 1943-2016

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Henry McCullough, session guitarist and member of Paul McCartney & Wings during the 70’s, has died at his home in Belfast, Ireland. He was 72.

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Delta Goodrem photo by Ros O'Gorman

Delta Goodrem Given Sales Boost Thanks To The Good Old Fashioned CD Single

by Paul Cashmere

Australia’s Delta Goodrem has had a chart resurgence in the past two weeks and it is in part to the some clever old school marketing by her record label Sony Music Australia. Delta has been selling thousands of CD singles.

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Delta Goodrem photo by Ros O'Gorman

ARIA Singles – Delta Goodrem ‘Wings’ Spends Second Week On Top Of Australian Chart

by Gavin Ryan

Delta Goodrem spreads her “Wings” and nests atop of the ARIA Singles chart for a second week, plus the track picks up a Gold (●) sales certification too.

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Delta Goodrem photo by Ros O'Gorman

ARIA Singles: Delta Goodrem ‘Wings’ Tops Australian Chart

by Gavin Ryan

After almost eight years of waiting, local songstress Delta Goodrem has now claimed her ninth No.1 on the ARIA Singles chart, as her latest track “Wings” flies to the top this week leaping from No.26 to No.1, helped by her performing the song to close last Sunday’s edition of The Voice, on which she is

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