Call it a turd on the run? Or perhaps with a little dump? In any case, a story in Paul McCartney‘s new oral history Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run has caught the eye of some early readers.
Wings drummer Denny Seiwell claims that McCartney and his then-wife Linda mailed a music critic their daughter Stella‘s turd following a negative concert review.
Seiwell says in the book, “We take [the critic] along to the sound check. We let him backstage. We let him on the bus. We let him see how we live and all that. He didn’t stay for the concert. He flew home.”
That critic didn’t see the show yet wrote up a “full-on review” of the show. Seiwell says, “And he slagged it. Everything about it. The way we lived. The way we traveled. The way we sounded, the way we da-dada-dada.”
“Stella was a baby at the time. So Paul and Linda took one of those little plastic soap dishes from the hotel we were in, and they got one of Stella’s turds, put it in the soap dish, wrapped it up, and sent it to him.”
Seiwell concludes, “You heard that from me. I don’t care if they want it to be known or not. I thought it was the perfect response to a crude British pressman.”
Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run is out now, with a companion best of album, Wings, out in multiple variations on Friday.
