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There’s Proof That Paul McCartney and Isaac Asimov Were Working On An Alien Musical

His musical had a working title of 'Five And Five And One'

Writers of the new volume of Paul McCartney’s biography, The McCartney Legacy: Volume 2: 1974 – 80 (Allan Kozinn and Adrian Sinclair), have, during the writing of this book uncovered  treatments for an alien musical co-written by Paul McCartney and science fiction author Isaac Asimov.

With a working title of Five And Five And One, the documents feature a loose plot outline with dialogue fragments and plot directions that were seemingly intended to incorporate then-new songs by McCartney.

Five And Five And One would have seen the invasion of shapeshifting aliens, who would then transform themselves into members of Wings, eventually meeting their real counterparts face-to-face.

“A ‘flying saucer’ lands. Out of it get five creatures. They transmute before your very eyes into ‘us’ [Wings],” the original treatment by McCartney began.

“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…”

Asimov’s expanded treatment made changes to McCartney’s original story: turning it into a five-page version, he changed the aliens into “energy-beings” ascended from a dying planet with the intention to “occupy, rather than clone” the Wings members “while being incapable of understanding human emotions such as love”.

These beings would communicate through “thought-waves” while being “strangely affected” by music, ultimately deciding that “they must use the musical key to unlock human emotion”.

“They’ve just been sitting there,” Sinclair spoke of the treatments. “Paul’s treatment reads like something Paul and Linda cooked up while they were smoking something particularly potent.”

Kozinn, a music journalist, told The Guardian that the duo came into possession of the correspondence between Paul McCartney and Isaac Asimov, claiming that the musician “didn’t particularly like” Asimov’s treatment of his alien musical.

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