Monday, September 6, 1971
Paul McCartney meets Richard Hewson to discuss “Dear Friend”
Last updated on May 7, 2022
Monday, September 6, 1971
Last updated on May 7, 2022
Interview Aug 21, 1971 • George Martin interview for Melody Maker
Article Aug 26, 1971 • The Rock Liberation Front organize a mock funeral for Paul McCartney
Article Sep 06, 1971 • Paul McCartney meets Richard Hewson to discuss "Dear Friend"
Article Sep 09, 1971 • John Lennon's "Imagine" album released, with references to "Ram"
Article Sep 11, 1971 • Paul McCartney declines invitation to "Goodbye Summer Concert for Bangladesh"
Officially appears on Wild Life
On this day, Paul McCartney invited Richard Hewson to his London home, to discuss an orchestral arrangement for “Dear Friend“, a song to be released on Wings’ first album, “Wild Life“.
The two had collaborated on a few projects in recent years.
Richard Hewson can say exactly when and where he entered the Wild Life story, from an entry in his diary: at 10am on 6th September 1971 at McCartney’s London home. Hewson met McCartney there to discuss an orchestral arrangement for ‘Dear Friend’, the album’s finale and written as a letter to McCartney’s former bandmate John Lennon.
From “Wild Life – Archive Collection“, 2018
The Beatles Diary Volume 2: After The Break-Up 1970-2001
"An updated edition of the best-seller. The story of what happened to the band members, their families and friends after the 1970 break-up is brought right up to date. A fascinating and meticulous piece of Beatles scholarship."
We owe a lot to Keith Badman for the creation of those pages, but you really have to buy this book to get all the details - a day to day chronology of what happened to the four Beatles after the break-up and how their stories intertwined together!
The Beatles - The Dream is Over: Off The Record 2
This edition of the book compiles more outrageous opinions and unrehearsed interviews from the former Beatles and the people who surrounded them. Keith Badman unearths a treasury of Beatles sound bites and points-of-view, taken from the post break up years. Includes insights from Yoko Ono, Linda McCartney, Barbara Bach and many more.
Maccazine - Volume 40, Issue 3 - RAM Part 1 - Timeline
This very special RAM special is the first in a series. This is a Timeline for 1970 – 1971 when McCartney started writing and planning RAM in the summer of 1970 and ending with the release of the first Wings album WILD LIFE in December 1971. [...] One thing I noted when exploring the material inside the deluxe RAM remaster is that the book contains many mistakes. A couple of dates are completely inaccurate and the story is far from complete. For this reason, I started to compile a Timeline for the 1970/1971 period filling the gaps and correcting the mistakes. The result is this Maccazine special. As the Timeline was way too long for one special, we decided to do a double issue (issue 3, 2012 and issue 1, 2013).
Maccazine - Volume 47, Issue 1 - The birth of Wings
"Maccazine is a hard copy magazine (a bound paperback) about Paul McCartney. It is published twice a year. Due to the fact that the Internet has taken over the world and the fact that the latest Paul McCartney news is to be found on hundreds of websites, we have decided to focus on creating an informative paper magazine about Paul McCartney."
"In this issue we take you back to the early days of Paul McCartney’s solo career when he decided to form a new group. With Wings he proved there was life after The Beatles. This Maccazine features a detailed timeline of ‘the birth’ of the band with interesting entries including many new facts and unpublished photos. Follow-up timelines will be published in the upcoming years."
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