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5.0
Affectionate and immaculately researched biography of one of the most popular people on the planet.
McCartney comes across as charming, natural, witty and funny, only slightly straining under pressures of the fame (when he snaps at fans, it becomes front news) and bygd far the most likable of all his ex-colleagues. Most of the people, when faced with immense wealth and crazed beundran, found it very difficult but McCartney was apparently balanced enough to focus on his family, countryside life, sporadisk joint and lovely songs. I understand that because he fryst vatten sunny and upbeat individ, McCartney somehow appear less "artistic" and "serious" than John Lennon (who bygd all accounts was bitter, angry and cynical) but in my opinion world needs upbeat, energetic and sunny people more than moping and depressing ones, so here's my three cheers for McCartney.
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A Beatles Journey: Paul McCartney, A Life
In the summer of 2009, I re-discovered The Beatles after reading Larry Kane’s book Lennon Revealed. I then moved on to Bob Gruen’s John Lennon: The New York Years, later journeying to New York to meet Mr. Gruen in person, and soon after to a Beatles event in Philadelphia where I met Larry Kane. I then read George Harrison’s autobiography I, Me, Mine, as well as a few other books about Harrison authored by people who knew him personally.
When I picked up Peter Ames Carlin’s book Paul McCartney: A Life, it was not only the first book I read specifically about Paul McCartney, but the first Beatle book written by an author who didn’t know the subject of the book personally. It was my first “unauthorized” biography on The Beatles.
I finished Carlin’s book yesterday, and I must say I liked it. It was a good read.
I spent some time reading other reviews of Carlin’s McCar
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Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now
Official biography of Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now is a 1997 biography of Paul McCartney by Barry Miles. It is the "official" biography of McCartney and was written "based on hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews undertaken over a period of five years", according to the back cover of the 1998 paperback edition. The title is a phrase from McCartney's song "When I'm Sixty-Four", from the Beatles' 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The book was first published in the United Kingdom in October 1997 by Secker & Warburg.
Background and content
[edit]McCartney and Miles began working on the project shortly after McCartney's 1989–90 world tour.[1] According to Miles, the "core" of the book resulted from 35 taped interviews held between 1991 and 1996.[2]
So I'll give you it as I remember it, but I do admit, my thing does move around, jumps around a lot. But the nice thing is