Paul McCartney alien musical treatment co-written by Isaac Asimov unearthed by biography writers: “They’ve just been sitting there”
Paul McCartney and science fiction author Isaac Asimov have been unearthed by the writers of forthcoming biography The McCartney Legacy: Volume 2: 1974 – 80.The book, due for release tomorrow (December 10) via HarperCollins, covers the years of McCartney post-Beatles, specifically with his band Wings, in the second of five planned volumes.Its writers Allan Kozinn and Adrian Sinclair shared with The Guardian yesterday (December 8) that they discovered the documents while researching for the book in the US.With a working title of Five And Five And One, the documents feature a loose plot outline with dialogue fragments and plot directions that were seemingly intended to incorporate then-new songs by McCartney.Five And Five And One would have seen the invasion of shapeshifting aliens, who would then transform themselves into members of Wings, eventually meeting their real counterparts face-to-face.“A ‘flying saucer’ lands.
Out of it get five creatures. They transmute before your very eyes into ‘us’ [Wings],” the original treatment by McCartney began.“They are here to take over Earth by taking America by storm and they proceed to do this supergroup style.
Meanwhile – back in the sticks of Britain – lives the original group, whose personalities are being used by the aliens…”In 1974, in hopes of collaborating on a script, McCartney flew to New York to see Asimov, who had a fear of flying.
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