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New Book Alleges Paul and Linda McCartney Sent Baby’s Feces to Reporter in 1970s Retaliation

The account comes from Wings drummer Denny Seiwell, who describes the act as payback after a writer broke a promise about how he would cover the band.

Overview

  • The story appears in Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run, an oral history edited by Ted Widmer that was published on November 4.
  • Seiwell says a British journalist was granted backstage and tour-bus access after pledging to write a lifestyle feature, then left before the show and ran a negative review.
  • According to his recollection, Paul and Linda packaged a piece of infant Stella McCartney’s feces in a hotel soap dish and mailed it to the writer.
  • Coverage notes the journalist is not identified, there is no contemporaneous documentation cited, and no public response from the McCartney family is reported.
  • The episode is placed around 1972, shortly after the couple’s marijuana-possession arrest in Sweden, within the book’s broader chronicle of Wings’ early years.