{"id":4840,"date":"2025-08-29T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/amazon-mgm-paul-mccartney-documentary\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T18:00:00","slug":"amazon-mgm-paul-mccartney-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/amazon-mgm-paul-mccartney-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon MGM Snags Doc On Paul McCartney\u2019s Post-Beatles Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/02\/GettyImages-2198109138-scaled.jpg\" width=\"1290\" height=\"860\" alt=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p>Amazon MGM Studios has acquired the long-in-the-works, Morgan Neville-directed Paul McCartney documentary <em>Man on the Run<\/em> and will release the film Feb. 25, 2026, on Prime Video and in select theaters on a date yet to be announced. <em>Man on the Run<\/em> is premiering this weekend at the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2023\/02\/paul-mccartney-documentary\/\">As previously reported<\/a>, the doc will chronicle McCartney\u2019s post-Beatles years and his 30-year relationship with his late wife Linda. It is drawn from \u201cunprecedented access to a never-before-seen archive of Paul and Linda\u2019s home videos and photos, as well as new interviews.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/08\/alabama-shakes-new-song\/\">Alabama Shakes Break Decade-Plus Silence With New Song<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/08\/5-albums-i-cant-live-without-tom-johnston-of-the-doobie-brothers\/\">5 Albums I Can\u2019t Live Without: Tom Johnston of the Doobie Brothers<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/08\/deep-cut-friday-what-will-you-say-by-jeff-buckley\/\">Deep Cut Friday: \u2018What Will You Say\u2019 by Jeff Buckley<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The film begins with McCartney \u201cnavigating 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.\u201d It is said to be \u201cthe definitive document of Paul\u2019s emergence from the dissolution of the world\u2019s biggest band, and his triumphant creation of a second decade of musical milestones.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That second decade was dominated by McCartney\u2019s tenure with Wings, which included Linda on keyboards and became an arena-filling band in its own right thanks to albums such as\u00a0<em>Band on the Run<\/em>\u00a0(1973) and\u00a0<em>Venus and Mars<\/em>\u00a0(1975). McCartney also released acclaimed solo work attributed to himself (1970\u2019s\u00a0<em>McCartney<\/em>) or in tandem with Linda (1971\u2019s\u00a0<em>Ram<\/em>) before Wings dissolved in 1980. Linda McCartney died of cancer in 1998 at the age of 56.<\/p>\n<p><em>Man on the Run<\/em> heralds a new partnership between McCartney, Universal Music Group and Amazon that will encompass \u201cexclusive music and merchandise drops,\u201d plus \u201cone-of-a-kind commentary from McCartney himself.\u201d Amazon and Audible will also sell McCartney\u2019s book, <em>Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run<\/em>, beginning Nov. 4.<\/p>\n<p>McCartney, who turned 83 in June, remains a road warrior. He\u2019ll embark on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/07\/paul-mccartney-fall-north-american-tour\/\">fall North American leg<\/a> of his Got Back tour starting Sept. 29 in Palm Desert, Ca., and has dates are on the books through Nov. 24-25 in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon MGM Studios has acquired the long-in-the-works, Morgan Neville-directed Paul McCartney documentary Man on the Run and will release the film Feb. 25, 2026, on Prime Video and in select&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,383,24,385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-paul-mccartney","category-pushly","category-the-beatles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}