Paul McCartney’s ‘Man on the Run’ Soundtrack and Documentary Drop Today: What You Need to Know

Paul McCartney’s “Man on the Run: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack” is available now, arriving February 27 alongside the Prime Video premiere of “Man on the Run,” the Morgan Neville-directed documentary chronicling McCartney’s post-Beatles career with Wings throughout the 1970s.

The 12-song soundtrack collects remastered classics and previously unreleased recordings that trace the arc of a decade spent proving he could thrive outside the biggest band in history. Released through UMe and Capitol Records, it spans material originally recorded between 1969 and 1979, including three tracks hearing their first official release.

Among the rarities, a demo of “Silly Love Songs” strips the 1976 chart-topper back to its earliest skeleton. “Gotta Sing Gotta Dance,” pulled from the 1973 “James Paul McCartney” TV special, fills a gap in the Wings catalog that collectors have circled for years. And a rough mix of “Arrow Through Me,” the Back to the Egg single that cracked the U.S. Top 30 in 1979, reveals the song before producer Chris Thomas applied his final polish.

The rest of the tracklist reads like a guided tour of McCartney’s post-Lennon identity crisis turned triumph: “That Would Be Something” from his stripped-down 1970 solo debut, “Too Many People” and “Long Haired Lady” from the deliberately ambitious “Ram,” “Big Barn Bed” from the scrappy “Red Rose Speedway,” the inescapable “Band on the Run,” a live “Live and Let Die” pulled from the “Rockshow” concert film, “Mull of Kintyre,” “Coming Up,” and the slow-burn album-track favorite “Let Me Roll It.”

The vinyl release comes with a movie poster designed by Aubrey “Po” Powell of Hipgnosis, the design studio behind eight Wings album covers including “Band on the Run” itself. Collectors can choose between standard black vinyl, a “New York Taxi Yellow” pressing exclusive to Jack White’s Third Man Records, and a tangerine peel orange variant through Amazon.

The documentary fueling all of this has already proven itself. Directed by Neville, whose previous credits include “20 Feet From Stardom” and “Piece by Piece,” “Man on the Run” premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on August 30, 2025, and entered a limited U.S. and U.K. theatrical run on February 19. It currently holds a perfect 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes from 37 critics and a 79 on Metacritic.

The film pieces together home video, unseen archive footage, and voiceover interviews to map McCartney’s journey from the rubble of the Beatles’ breakup through Wings’ unlikely rise. “When people talk about the biggest acts of the 1970s, the list rarely includes Paul McCartney,” Neville said in an official statement. “Not because he wasn’t big. He was undeniably one of the biggest acts of the decade. But because of what he’d already done.”

McCartney is credited as executive producer and narrator. The documentary was produced by Neville’s Tremolo production company in partnership with MPL Communications and PolyGram Entertainment, with distribution handled by Amazon MGM Studios worldwide and Trafalgar Releasing for the theatrical window.

The project arrives in the wake of 2024’s 50th anniversary reissue of “Band on the Run” and the 2025 “Wings” box set, reinforcing a sustained campaign to reappraise Wings’ catalog on its own terms rather than in the Beatles’ shadow.

“Man on the Run: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack” is streaming now on all major platforms. The documentary is available today on Amazon Prime Video.