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How Harrison inspired McCartney to write 'Band on the Run'

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Today's Morning Edition music is from 40 years ago today, when Paul McCartney and Wings had the number one song on the pop charts. McCartney told a biographer that the song was inspired by a remark that George Harrison made in the waning days of the Beatles.

During an unpleasant Apple Records business meeting, George said he felt like they were all prisoners and he was eager to escape. There's a new book about Paul McCartney in the 1970s called Man on the Run. It describes how he was depressed and became heavily dependent on alcohol and drugs after the Beatles broke up. It took him several years to get his bearings and start making hit records again like "Band on the Run."