Illuminating biography of legendary composer, musician and performer Paul McCartney. 'One of the best stories the past century has to tell' NEW YORK TIMES 'Thrillingly thorough' IRISH TIMES
'A thorough, objective telling of McCartney's story - in and out of the most famous band ever.' ESQUIRE
The first biography written with McCartney's approval and with access to family members and friends closest to him.
In 2013, Sir Paul McCartney granted Philip Norman 'tacit approval' as his biographer. The result is a masterly and complex portrait of the most successful songwriter in history.
It gives a unique insight into McCartney's childhood, blighted by the loss of his mother when he was fourteen, and into the creative symbiosis and fierce rivalry between John Lennon and himself that powered the Beatles' music. Here, too, for the first time, is the full story of McCartney's triumphant but troubled post-Beatles years: the tragic death of his first wife, Linda, and the chaotic divorce from his second wife, Heather Mills.
Paul McCartney is the definitive life of a long-misunderstood genius that superbly evokes half a century of popular music and culture.
Norman is an enviably skilled pen-portraitist, with a consummate ability to conjure the presence of [McCartney] ... A powerful sense of McCartney the man comes across in this book's evocative high points ... A capably executed biography, brimming with detail John Harris THE GUARDIAN
Philip Norman is an English novelist, biographer, journalist and playwright. At the end of the 1960s, as a correspondent for The Sunday Times, he was assigned to investigate and report on the breakup of Beatles' own business, Apple Corps. Norman is the author of SHOUT! and biographies of John Lennon, Buddy Holly, The Rolling Stones, Elton John, Paul McCartney and Eric Clapton.
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An illuminating history of this much-loved and legendary musician, Norman gained approved access to his closest friends and family, allowing him to present a detailed and fascinating account of life both during and after Beatle mania, including that of his private life, subsequent marriages and successful solo career.
