Paul McCartney will always be best known as a member of The Beatles, but true fans know he had a lengthy career with his second band, Wings, after the Fab Four split in 1970.

Wings’ formation and ultimate demise is documented in the new book Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run, which hit shelves on Tuesday, November 4. While McCartney, now 83, is credited as the author, the book, edited by Ted Widmer, is an oral history that includes interviews from members of Wings as well as McCartney’s family.

While the first Wings album dropped in 1971, he released two albums in 1970 that can be considered precursors to the band: his first solo album, McCartney, and Ram, which he recorded with his then-wife, Linda McCartney. (Linda died of breast cancer in 1998 at age 56.)

“Wings sort of felt like

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