Paul McCartney

Always loved the Beatles, but have a deep and newfound appreciation for Paul McCartney the person, the musician, the arranger. It was his impetus that kept the Beatles going as long as they did, and his individual career shows his true love of music, his creativity and his humanity.

Well-informed and balanced. The tone is sympathetic, yet the book also shows the more human side of seemingly smooth success machine. Beside Mark Lewisohn, Norman is the most crafty living Beatles scholar.

great book

The Beatles is a myth that modern generation can hardly can truly capture in its original colors, only listen to their music through streaming services. Yet the profuse song-writing of Paul enabled these records to keep their meaning even today.

I love how quickly I received this..❤️

He is a great talent ,not a big deal & really nice guy.

I'm listening to it right now. It's great but very long, 26 CDs! This was a great find on Amazon!

All the important facts, except for his last marriage.Not a great writer.

Superbly written biography, written by the respected journalist Philip Norman. Although the author has always preferred John Lennon, this weighty tome covers the all-roind talents of Macca and, rightly, strikes a great balance which was missing from the book Shout. If you love the 1960s and beyond, this really is an essential companion for Beatles freaks. Excellent and historically accurate, this is a great read from start to finish.

L’ho regalato a mia figlia che è rimasta contentissima. Lo sta letteralmente divorando. Lo consiglio👍

Whilst I loved this book and found it fascinating, it is not without it's drawbacks. I read Philip Norman's biography of John Lennon a few years back and this makes a great companion to that volume. I think Norman, delves fairly into the McCartney story to reveal an incredibly creative individual who has made an enormous impact on the music world over the past sixty years. In some ways I prefer the Lennon biography but that is probably more to do with the fact that Lennon was a more complicated individual. Three things I didn't like about this book. Firstly the inordinate amount of time spent at the beginning where the author attempted to justify why he could write this biography. Clearly he felt he had to overcome perceptions of his past antipathy (real or imagined) towards McCartney. Who cares? Put that in a footnote somewhere, the interest in the volume is McCartney, not the author. Secondly, the whole Heather Mills section of the book really becomes a Heather Mills biography rather than about McCartney. I thought the author got a bit off track there. And my final criticism would be the same of almost all such Rock Musician biographies. McCartney's claim to fame is as an incredible musician and song-writer, yet this is really a book about the person. As a muso myself I would be much more interested in greater attention and analysis given to the musical output that McCartney has given us rather than his relationship sagas. But that is the world we live in, and I can accept that having a greater appreciation of the person, increases our appreciation of the music too. All in all, well worth the read.

Great biography i love that

Great book!! I love all the story’s and everything when you’re looking for a great Paul McCartney biography then that’s the right one!!