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CLEVELAND, Ohio \u2014 The largest collection of Paul McCartney’s personal artifacts ever publicly displayed is part of a new exhibit at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame centering on his life after\u00a0The Beatles<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cPaul McCartney and Wings,\u201d which opened Friday in Cleveland, explores\u00a0the musician\u2019s reinvention<\/a>\u00a0after leaving the iconic British rock band through displays of instruments, handwritten songwriting notes and photographs taken by his wife, Linda McCartney, who was keyboardist and harmony vocalist for Wings during its decade-long run from 1971 to 1981, when the band produced hits including \u201cBand on the Run,\u201d \u201cSilly Love Songs\u201d and \u201cLive and Let Die.\u201d<\/p>\n After the breakup of The Beatles, McCartney was no longer just the musician who had been known around the world since his teenage years, but a husband and father of a young family. What he built with Wings reflected that new stage of life, said Andy Leach, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame\u2019s senior director of museum and archival collections.<\/p>\n Leach said the band\u2019s embrace of domestic life \u2014 bringing children on tour, having a married couple perform together and writing songs inspired by his wife, who was also a member of the group \u2014 was \u201cremarkable and unusual\u201d for the era, when rock music remained overwhelmingly male-dominated and family life was rarely incorporated so visibly into a band\u2019s public identity.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat\u2019s interesting about Wings is that they were formed around the idea of reinvention, renewal, risk-taking, experimentation, but collaboration,\u201d Leach said. \u201cAnd family was at the center of it, too.\u201d<\/p>\n Leach traveled to London to work with McCartney and his team to prepare and transport guitars along with clothing worn during performances to Cleveland. The vast majority of the artifacts are from McCartney\u2019s personal collection.<\/p>\n Leach said Wings helped pioneer the large-scale production that came to define 1970s arena rock, using increasingly elaborate lighting and stage design on tours such as Wings Over the World and Wings Over America.<\/p>\n Leach said it was amazing to see and handle guitars that \u201cI\u2019ve heard on record my whole life.\u201d<\/p>\n Visitors will also be able to step into a recreation of the farmhouse that McCartney still owns in Scotland, where Paul and Linda retreated after The Beatles’ breakup in 1970 and set up a recording studio.<\/p>\n In the home, photos of Paul and Linda McCartney and their children line the walls. Linda\u2019s camera sits inside a case on the makeshift kitchen table.<\/p>\n The photographs taken by Linda, an acclaimed artist in her own right and the first female photographer to have a photo featured on the cover of Rolling Stone, in 1968, showcase her role \u201cat the center of the family, and in some ways, at the center of the band,” Leach said.<\/p>\n Linda McCartney was married for three decades to Paul, who taught her to play the keyboard after The Beatles’ breakup. She died in 1998 of breast cancer.<\/p>\n Another of Leach’s favorite artifacts is the handwritten scores by famed Beatles producer\u00a0George Martin<\/a>\u00a0for the songs \u201cUncle Albert\u201d and the James Bond theme \u201cLive and Let Die,\u201d which became one of Wings’ most enduring songs.<\/p>\n Other items were lent by longtime Wings roadie John Hamill, former band members and the widow of\u00a0Denny Laine<\/a>, the co-founder of Wings and The Moody Blues, who played guitar, bass and keyboards and contributed both lead and backing vocals.<\/p>\n The Hall of Fame said the exhibit will be open for at least a year with the hope of keeping it open through the summer of 2027.<\/p>\n Leach said the exhibit is \u201cperfect timing\u201d because of what he described as \u201ca nice kind of renaissance or at least a new appreciation for them among fans and a new understanding about how remarkable and important\u201d Wings\u2019 musicians were.<\/p>\n He pointed to the release of the Amazon Prime documentary\u00a0Man on the Run<\/a>, a new box set and the 2025 book\u00a0Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run<\/a>, co-written by Paul McCartney and historian Ted Widmer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source spectrumnews1.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" CLEVELAND, Ohio \u2014 The largest collection of Paul McCartney’s personal artifacts ever publicly displayed is part of a new exhibit at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame centering on his life after\u00a0The Beatles. 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