#NEWMUSIC: “THE MAN ON THE RUN” WITH PAUL MCCARTNEY COMING TO AUDIBLE

Audible Inc., the leading creator and provider of premium audio storytelling, today announced its latest Words + Music installment, The Man on The Run, an introspective look into the life and career of Paul McCartney, available today exclusively from Audible. Expanding on Prime Video’s recently released documentary “Man on The Run,” which premiered globally on Prime Video February 27, this three-hour audio experience offers fans a complementary and expanded journey featuring extended interviews between the legendary artist and Academy Award-winning filmmaker Morgan Neville and musical performances selected specifically for this audio experience.

Paul McCartney said: “I don’t normally spend a lot of time looking back but I was flattered when Morgan said he was interested in this period. The first bit of Wings was quite hard work and not very rewarding, but eventually we got some songs under our belts that were hits. Morgan got me to think about stuff I hadn’t thought about for a long time. He was asking all the right questions and I was happy to be transported back.”

Throughout his career, Paul McCartney has distinguished himself as one of the most celebrated musicians in history. But in 1970, when The Beatles ended, he faced his greatest challenge: starting over. In the 42nd installment of Audible’s award-winning Words + Music series, McCartney chronicles that journey through the 1970s, on a mission to trust his creative impulses, no matter where they pointed him, from depression and isolation in Scotland, to his creative rebirth with Linda McCartney, to forming Wings and achieving massive success with Band on the Run. It’s a story of escape, family, music-making, and finding yourself when everything you’ve known falls apart.

This Audible Original is built entirely around his first-person narrative, creating an immersive deep dive into the most transformative period of his life. The interviews were conducted over three years in different locations around the world (Los Angeles, New York, London), designed as conversations rather than formal interviews, allowing thoughts to go where they wanted and uncovering stories never told. This includes a conversation recorded on December 8th, 2025, the 45th anniversary of John Lennon’s murder. McCartney lingers in crucial moments such as his post-Beatles retreat to Scotland, where personal details emerge about building Mary’s baby bed from potato pallets and teaching his children to read. He opens up about his post-Wings years, when painting became a way to process Linda’s illness. His relationship with John Lennon weaves throughout: stories of their reconnection during the bread strike, and a transcendent performance of “Yesterday” with John’s original introduction.

Rachel Ghiazza, Chief Content Officer at Audible, said: “Some artists define an era. Paul McCartney and the Beatles defined what it means to be human. With The Man on the Run, our hope was to give listeners the chance to spend real time with Paul as he brings the past into conversation with the present. It is a profound privilege to present these recordings in their most complete form, and a rare honor to help capture an artist whose music has become part of our shared emotional memory.”

Paul McCartney joins an extensive roster of iconic musicians who have contributed to Audible’s Words + Music series, which blends personal memoir with intimate performances. Previous releases include the Grammy Award-nominated …And Your Ass Will Follow by George Clinton, as well as installments from John Legend, James Taylor, Patti Smith, Snoop Dogg, Eddie Vedder, Yo-Yo Ma, Alanis Morissette, USHER, Smokey Robinson, Rufus Wainwright, Mariah Carey, Elvis Costello, Sting, and more. The acclaimed Words + Music series expanded to MGM+ in 2025 with a visually immersive docuseries featuring live theatrical performances from John Legend, Sheryl Crow, Elvis Costello, and Alanis Morissette.

Praise for Audible’s Words + Music series:
“Allows you to be surprised again by his genius.” – Los Angeles Times on Smokey Robinson
“Feels like an intimate performance from a chatty and approachable virtuoso.” – The New York Times on Yo-Yo Ma
“Unique storytelling and musical experience.” – USA Today on James Taylor
“The hybrid form feels completely natural to her talents.” – The New York Times on Patti Smith
“Just like in his music, he opens himself up wide to the world.” – Forbes on Rufus Wainwright

For more information on Audible’s Words + Music collection, please visit www.audible.com/ep/words+music.

About Paul McCartney
Born in Liverpool in 1942, Paul McCartney was raised in the city and educated at the Liverpool Institute. Since writing his first song at 14, McCartney has dreamed and dared to be different. Paul’s output has been impossibly prolific and singularly influential crossing many different genres. Paul changed the world forever with The Beatles before going on to continue to push boundaries and make music history with his group Wings and as a solo artist. His most recent solo (and 18th) studio album McCartney III secured the UK Album Chart’s festive Number 1 spot in 2020, furthering his lead as the UK’s most successful album act of all time. In November 2021 Paul released his book, THE LYRICS: 1956 to the Present, recounting his life and art through the prism of 154 songs from all stages of his career – from his earliest boyhood compositions through the legendary decade of The Beatles, to Wings and his solo albums to the present. The LYRICS hit Number One on the New York Times Best Seller list, and was named the 2021 Book Of The Year by Barnes & Noble. In November 2025 Paul released Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run, an oral history of the Wings era shedding new light on what it was like to be part of one of the most iconic bands of the 1970s. An 19-time Grammy winner and recipient of The Recording Academy’s Lifetime Achievement and Trustees Awards, McCartney’s list of international accolades reads like no other as well as being recognised for decades of philanthropic activities. Equally renowned for his live performances as he is for his song-writing, Paul set the world record for largest paying concert attendance – 184,000 people – in Rio De Janeiro in 1990. A freeman of The City Of Liverpool and Lead Patron of The Liverpool Institute Of Performing Arts, Paul McCartney was appointed Fellow of The Royal College of Music in 1995 by The Prince Of Wales. In 1997 Paul McCartney was knighted by H.M. The Queen for his services to music, and in 2017 he was made a Companion Of Honour in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list.

About Morgan Neville
Morgan Neville is an Oscar, Grammy and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker known for his work as a cultural documentarian. His acclaimed 2018 film Won’t You Be My Neighbor? is one of the best-reviewed and highest-grossing documentaries of all time. His 2013 film 20 Feet From Stardom won the Academy Award for Best Documentary. His 2021 film Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain was the highest-grossing documentary of that year. Additional films and series include the Emmy-winning Best of Enemies, the Emmy-nominated STEVE! (Martin) a Documentary in 2 Pieces, Piece by Piece, Shangri-la, Watch The Sound with Mark Ronson, Song Exploder and Ugly Delicious. Neville recently was nominated for an Emmy for his work on the documentary series, SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night. Most recently, he directed Man on the Run, which documents Paul McCartney’s decade-long creative surge after the Beatles, which premiered at the Telluride Film Festival and was released by Amazon MGM Studios February 27.

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