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‘It’s like they were smoking something potent’: the ‘bizarre’ Paul McCartney alien musical that never was


Former Beatle’s treatment for the film – and an expanded version by sci-fi writer Isaac Asimov – unearthed in the US

Now the former Beatle’s treatment for the film – and an expanded version by the American sci-fi writer Isaac Asimov that McCartney turned down – have been unearthed in a US archive by the authors Allan Kozinn and Adrian Sinclair, while researching a forthcoming book. Photograph: CorbisSinclair described the treatment by Asimov, who died in 1992 aged 72, as “a love conquers all tale, in which mankind escapes alien conquest and inherits the universe”. For Volume 2, the writers spoke at length with four former members of Wings, including the drummer Geoff Britton – who has not given an in-depth interview since 1977 – as well as producers and recording engineers, among others who worked with McCartney

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