Paul McCartney’s extraterrestrial era has been exposed. In a newly-released book, The McCartney Legacy, Volume 2: 1974–80, authors Adrian Sinclair and Allan Kozinn reveal a past proposal of McCartney’s for a project with Sci-Fi author, Isaac Asimov.
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The project, according to Billboard, was proposed as a film titled, Five and Five and One, and featured an outlandish plot consisting of aliens and McCartney’s band Wings attempting to take Earth by storm.
“A ‘flying saucer’ lands. Out of it get five creatures. They transmute before your very eyes into ‘us’ [Wings],” McCartney’s original treatment reads. “They are here to take over Earth by taking America by storm and they proceed to do this supergroup style. Meanwhile — back in the sticks of Britain — lives the original group, whose personalities are being used by the aliens…”
After meeting together in New York to talk about the script, Asimov evolved the story to transform the alien invaders into “energy-beings” from “a dying planet who sought to occupy the Wings members rather than clone them.”
Despite McCartney’s efforts and fascinating storyline, the project never came to fruition after stalling in 1975. Reports state that the project was abandoned with a critique from Asimov written over the top that read, “Nothing ever came of this because McCartney couldn’t recognize good stuff.”
The McCartney Legacy, Volume 2: 1974–80 is the second installment of a larger series that documents McCartney’s career.