The post-Beatles life and music of Paul McCartney

Man on the Run looks at how McCartney branched out on his own

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Paul McCartney in the studio.

If Peter Jackson's The Beatles: Get Back was the supreme document of the Beatles' final moments together and of their dissolution, Morgan Neville’s Man on the Run is a kind of sequel.

It begins in late 1969, just months after Savile Row rooftop concert. The Beatles have broken up. Paul McCartney has seemingly disappeared. There are even rumors that he's dead. On a remote farm in Scotland, a confused and distraught McCartney wonders whether he'll write “another note, ever”.

When the Beatles broke up, McCartney was 27 years old. To say he had lived a lifetime by then would be an understatement. By just the sheer enormity of their production and colossal cultural impact, you might easily mistakenly put McCartney in middle age by then.