JODY STEPHENS IS TELLING MOJO about the time he could conceivably have joined Wings.
It was 1978, four years after the break-up of Big Star, and the drummer was on a visit to England, home of the pop music inspirations that had fuelled his now famously luckless band. Browsing in an antique shop in Rye, East Sussex, he found himself suddenly face to face with one of them: Beatle Paul McCartney, resident of nearby Peasmarsh, out shopping with wife and bandmate Linda.