Paul McCartney and Fela Kuti sparked a friendship in the early 1970s by, well, sparking up some marijuana — but before that, they also extinguished a misunderstanding that arose when the Beatles alum’s band Wings traveled to Nigeria to work on new music.
In a clip from the newly announced “Man on the Run” installment of Audible‘s Words + Music series — which Billboard is exclusively sharing Thursday (March 19) — McCartney recalls smoothing things over with the Afrobeats innovator. According to the Brit, Kuti had heard that he and his bandmates were planning to appropriate African music for the album that…
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