Paul Mccartney: The Biography - Brossura

Norman, Philip

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ISBN 10: 0297870769 ISBN 13: 9780297870760

Casa editrice: Orion, 2016

Riassunto

The first biography written with Paul McCartney's approval and with access to family members and friends closest to him.

Superbly evoking half a century of popular music and culture, Paul McCartney is the definitive life of a long-misunderstood genius.

In this masterly biography, history's most successful songwriter, a man of seemingly effortless talent, beauty and charm, is revealed as a complex, insecure workaholic who still feels as great a need to prove himself in his seventies as when he was a teenager.

We learn how his boyhood was blighted by the death of his mother, Mary, - later the inspiration for 'Let It Be' - but redeemed by his remarkable father, Jim, a Liverpool cotton-salesman who was his only music-teacher and whose influence has permeated his career.

We understand as never before the creative symbiosis between John Lennon and himself that unlocked the extraordinary treasury of their songs for the Beatles when they were barely into their twenties, and the fierce rivalry which lasted beyond the band's break-up to the end of John's life - and still haunts and inspires Paul to this day.

Here for the first time is the full story of Paul post-Beatles: his trauma after being brutally sidelined by John, George and Ringo over the appointment of their last manager, Allen Klein; his near-breakdown on his remote Scottish farm and dogged determination to build a new band, Wings, into as big a name in the 1970s as the Beatles had been in the 1960s.

Here too is the first inside story of his marriage to Linda Eastman, much criticised at the outset but destined to become the longest and strongest in rock until her death from cancer. Here are the traumatic post-Linda years when his charmed life seemed temporarily to crack up: his whirlwind romance with Heather Mills ending after four years' marriage in one of the most expensive and rancorous divorces in British legal history.

As richly fascinating and dramatic as its subject, Paul McCartney: The Biography is the last word on a man whose music has lit up the world.

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Recensione:

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)

A thorough, objective telling of McCartney's story - in and out of the most famous band ever. But it's also a breezy read, considering the tremendous ground it covers (Jeff Slate ESQUIRE.COM)

Meticulous character study that adeptly shuns hero worship (Bill Prince GQ magazine)

Where [the] book succeeds the most is bringing the reader into McCartney's private life... The most up-to-date account of Paul's life to yet appear (THE ECONOMIST)

A compelling narrative about a working-class Liverpudlian whose extraordinary musical gifts made him the most successful songwriter in history... McCartney emerges from [the book] as a textured but decent man (Graham Boynton NEWSWEEK)

Norman makes meaningful use of his access to members of Macca's Liverpool clan, a colourful crew to whom he's always remained close, as well as many business and musical associates, friends, lovers, collaborators and flunkies ... The Beatles story is so amazing in every respect that when it's told as well as this, it's worth reading again (Allan Jones UNCUT)

An enormous and sympathetic book ... The story of its subject's life from his childhood in Liverpool through the breakup of the Beatles in 1970 has lost none of its ability to charm ... One of the best stories the past century has to tell (Dwight Garner NEW YORK TIMES)

Philip Norman's considered biography portrays the 'cute' Beatle in all his creative complexity and breadth (Neil Spencer THE GUARDIAN)

This biography is a compelling chronicle of the life of an immortal icon (Ed Murphy HOT PRESS)

This 800-page opus is crammed with detail ... Read it for the detail and humour of the early years, and marvel at the revelations (i PAPER)

Descrizione del libro:

Illuminating biography of legendary composer, musician and performer Paul McCartney.

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• Editore: Orion
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0297870769
• ISBN 13: 9780297870760
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 864