Paul mccartney the life philip norman

  • The definitive Paul McCartney biography, written with his approval by bestselling biographer Philip Norman.
  • Philip Norman is one of our greatest biographers and Paul McCartney is one of the greatest of subjects: cofounder of the world's most celebrated band and composer of immortal songs.
  • This is the first definitive account of Paul's often troubled partnership with John Lennon, his personal trauma after the Beatles' breakup, and.

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    I loved Philip Norman&#;s revealing biography of John Lennon. This hefty volume doesn&#;t quite match up, but that

    A winsome Paul McCartney.

    may not be Norman&#;s fault. McCartney has lived 36 years longer than Lennon now, and is quite a different character. Part of what must have made the biography a difficult task is that it is very hard to pierce Paul&#;s shell and the people around him have been discreet. However, this book definitely washes away the silly stereotype of Paul as &#;the cute Beatle&#; once and for all. It replaces that caricature with a shrewd and nearly always cautious character (except for the s drug bust in Tokyo!), who was also completely blindsided at certain points in his life and left reeling, confused, and vulnerable. The haunting picture on the book jacket shows that side of Paul.

    I came away with an appreciation of McCartney&#;s immense talent and work ethic, as well as a greater understanding of what makes him tick. He&#;s someone who&#;s lost the three people closest to him (his mother, John Lennon, Linda). Norman skillfully shows that Paul&#;s first long-term relationship with actress Jane Asher was quite hollow in some ways and that issues of control emerge in his relation

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    “You had a reputation as a McCartney basher.” Robert Rodriguez

    “I did. And I was wrong. I was in the wrong. As I say in this book, I was not fair to him in Shout! … They (John and Paul) are inseparable in their importance to the Beatles.” Philip Norman, interview with Robert Rodriguez, Something About the Beatles,

    In the wake of John Lennon’s murder, an English journalist published a book which widened Beatles historiography’s Lennon/McCartney schism by providing an unfailingly complimentary view of John Lennon and Yoko Ono while criticizing Lennon’s songwriting and musical partner, Paul McCartney, as a superficial lightweight whose manipulative and conservative personality, obsession with sentiment and commerciality, and refusal to accede to Lennon and Ono’s experimental genius led to the Beatles breakup. Responsibility for the band’s split was placed solely on McCartney’s shoulders, and his inferiority to Lennon in virtually every way was implicitly or explicitly proclaimed by the author.

    Portrayals of the other Beatles, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, in the book were poor to non-existent: Contradictory accounts and opposing primary evidence were dismissed or ignored. While it attracted some criticism for its hagiographic interpretation of Lennon and Ono, its reput