Dalton Watson Fine Books is pleased to present Guitar With Wings: A Photographic Memoir by two time Grammy Award-winning artist Laurence Juber.

Guitar With Wings is a lavishly produced book co-written by music historian Marshall Terrill and featuring a foreword by Denny Laine that tells the story of Juber’s five-decade career told through his own words, candid never-seen-before color and black & white photos, vintage advertising materials, guitars, equipment, memorabilia and the six-string legend’s encyclopedic musical memory.

“In the thirty-something years since Wings folded I would look at the boxes of photographs and accumulated memorabilia, promising myself that one day I’d take the time to organize it all,” Juber said. “Contrary to my expectations that the Wings era would be absorbed into the general arc of Paul McCartney’s career, interest in the band itself has continued to flourish and I recognized that I had a unique perspective to offer. All the great moments were there as well as being an eyewitness to McCartney’s much-publicized marijuana bust in Tokyo, Japan in 1980.”

“The photos triggered long-forgotten memories of my time in the band, underscoring how my studies at ‘McCartney University’ were a bridge from my early musical experiences to my later ‘solo flight’ and how much the couple-consciousness of Paul and Linda McCartney proved to be a template for my own romantic and creative relationship with my wife Hope,” Juber said.

Containing 250 plus pages, this photo memoir documents the history of a young Londoner whose passion for the guitar leads him to play a crucial role in the ‘Indian Summer’ of Paul McCartney’s Wings, encompassing the era of the Grammy-winning Back to the Egg, the band’s final tour and their No. 1 swan song, “Coming Up.”

Juber’s photographs and memories takes readers on a journey inside recording sessions for “Rockestra” and at McCartney’s Scottish farm, Abbey Road Studios, as well as onstage and backstage with Paul and Linda, Denny Laine at the “People of Kampuchea” benefit and on Wing’s 19-date concert tour of the United Kingdom in late 1979.

In addition to the hardback ($49.00), Dalton Watson Fine Books will also release a 1,000 signed, limited slipcase edition ($85.00) that features an exclusive CD which includes “Maise,” an original Juber composition and Back to the Egg outtake by Wings. To purchase the book, please go to www.daltonwatson.com

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LAURENCE JUBER

In May 1978 Juber got an extraordinary, life-changing break when Paul McCartney selected him to become Wings’ lead guitarist. He spent three years recording and touring with the band. During that time he won a Best Rock Instrumental GRAMMY® for the track “Rockestra” from the Wings album Back To The Egg and was heard on the international hit singles “Goodnight Tonight” and “Coming Up”.
After Wings folded in 1981, Juber relocated to the US and established himself as a studio musician. While raising a family in Los Angeles, he performed on the soundtracks to hundreds of TV shows and movies including "Home Improvement" and "Seventh Heaven.” He can be heard on the scores to such academy award-winning movies as Dirty Dancing, Pocahontas and Good Will Hunting, as well as many hit records.
At the same time he embarked on a career as a solo recording artist, concert performer composer and arranger, soon developing a reputation as a world-class solo guitar virtuoso, being voted '#1' by Fingerstyle Guitar magazine. He has since released more than 20 acclaimed solo albums.
LJ Plays The Beatles was voted one of the all-time top ten acoustic guitar albums. I've Got The World On 6 Strings, is a collection of solo guitar arrangements of tunes by Harold Arlen, composer of “Over The Rainbow”, and 'Stormy Weather', among many other classics. Pop Goes Guitar includes his performance of “Stand By Me” that was heard in a popular De Beers diamond commercial.
His solo guitar arrangement of "The Pink Panther Theme" is featured on the Best Pop Instrumental GRAMMY®-winning album "Henry Mancini-Pink Guitar". His latest releases are the concert CD/DVD Catch LJ Live! and the jazz-tinged studio collection "Under An Indigo Sky."
Laurence is also a respected composer, arranger and producer having written music for TV (A Very Brady Xmas, Tarzan) movies (World Gone Wild), documentaries (NBC's Children Of the Harvest). His music is featured in the Ken Burns documentary The Tenth Inning. He is also co-composer of the score to the award-winning video game 'Diablo 3'. With his wife Hope, he has composed the stage musicals Gilligan's Island: The Musical, A Very Brady Musical and It’s The Housewives!

C.F. Martin & Company has produced an ‘LJ’ Signature model guitar and GHS Strings market Juber's Signature guitar strings.

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Photo Credit: Dalton Watson Fine Books, Laurence Juber