Paul mccartney philip norman

  • Norman is an enviably skilled pen-portraitist, with a consummate ability to conjure the presence of “the left-handed bass guitarist whose.
  • He accepted the author's apologies for the insulting comment in the 80's biography that John Lennon was 3/4ths of the Beatles.
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    “You had a reputation as a McCartney basher.” Robert Rodriguez

    “I did. And inom was wrong. I was in the wrong. As I säga in this book, inom 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 reporter published a book which widened Beatles historiography’s Lennon/McCartney schism bygd 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

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    Paul McCartney: The Life

    May 17,
    Having been a fan of the Beatles, and Paul McCartney in particular, for most of my life, I was more than a little surprised when I first heard that Philip Norman had embarked on a biography of McCartney. The author of, “Shout!” and “John Lennon: The Life,” had always seemed to put Lennon at the centre of the Beatles story and was, I felt, unsympathetic to McCartney. Indeed, from the first page of this book, it seems that Norman himself was pretty astounded when Paul McCartney, if not making this an authorised biography, gave him tacit approval to speak to friends and family.

    What emerges, considering the access he had, is something of a disappointment. Admittedly (and thankfully) McCartney has had a long career and it is difficult to cover everything, even in a book this long. Once I had read about Norman’s initial meeting with the Beatles as a young man, his jealousy of McCartney and his own feelings about writing this book, he embarked on the s

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    Phillip Norman has never been known for being a big fan of Paul McCartney.  The author of Shout! and John Lennon- the Life has always been vocal about how much he loves John and dislikes Paul. However, he decided to" bury the hatchet" and, with Paul's approval, wrote this biography of Paul McCartney's life.

    This page biography took me two solid weeks to read.  The author uses a lot of strange comparisons and flowery words in writing.  The strangest thing I think I have ever read in my life was in this book.  He compared fans getting the White album and rushing home to listen to it on their turntables to someone who has diarrhea rushing to get to the toilet.  He just seems to use a lot of words to make a simple point.  

    Norman is the author of the Beatles biography Shout and really did not need to write the first part of the book. The part that covers Paul's childhood through the Beatles' years did not have any new information. Sure, he d