Versatile rock star Laurence Juber unchains ‘Guitar with Wings’ coffee table memoir

Jeremy Roberts
10 min readJul 6, 2017
Paul McCartney and Wings six-string wizard Laurence Juber and co-author Marshall Terrill break down the contents of “Guitar with Wings” in an exclusive interview. Here Juber confidently arrives at RAK Studios near Regent’s Park in central London for his first Wings session on May 5, 1978. Recorded on that day was “Same Time, Next Year,” rejected by director Robert Mulligan as the theme song of the 1978 romantic comedy-drama starring Alan Alda and Ellen Burstyn and kept in the archives until 1990 when “Put It There” from McCartney’s underrated “Flowers in the Dirt” album required a B-side. Image Credit: “Guitar with Wings: A Photographic Memoir” / Courtesy of Dalton Watson Fine Books

Laurence Juber, the lone surviving lead guitarist in Paul McCartney and Wings, grants an exclusive conversation below scrutinizing his stunning debut memoir, the photographically-enhanced Guitar with Wings.

Inspired by the earliest wave of Beatlemania that swept Britain in 1963, Juber developed a passion for the guitar and…

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Jeremy Roberts

Retro pop culture interviews & lovin’ something fierce sustain this University of Georgia Master of Agricultural Leadership alum. Email: jeremylr@windstream.net