James paul mccartney biography book
Paul McCartney: The Life
May 17, 2016
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 t
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 t