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Paul Mccartney

Many Years from Now

by Barry Miles

ISBN: 0805052488
ISBN-13: 9780805052480
Format: Hardcover

Summary

Being a pop star and having a dozen girls waiting outside your front door is a frequent musician's fantasy. However, if they're actually waiting for your more-famous housemate, who happens to be Paul McCartney, it can wreak havoc on the ego. Such was Peter Asher's experience when McCartney dated Asher's sister Jane, one of the many minor yet significant episodes explored in PAUL MCCARTNEY: MANY YEARS FROM NOW, Barry Miles's intimately detailed biography of the ex-Beatle. Miles packs in an abundance of early-years background information, from McCartney's Liverpool childhood to the Beatles' apprenticeship in Hamburg's red-light district, but really hits paydirt with his account of London's '60s art scene, in which the author was a major participant, and of McCartney's involvement with avant-garde icons such as William Burroughs and British electronic music experimenter Cornelius Cardew. McCartney's relaxed recollections-he's a beguiling storyteller-compiled over a five-year period of conversations with the author, are illuminating, particularly on the subjects of songwriting ("Eleanor Rigby" was written with a view to a post-Beatle career, once McCartney had hit 30), and his artistic rivalry, later to develop into full-blown animosity, with John Lennon.

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'Many Years From Now' has to be considered one of the essential books on the Beatles. Cleverly titled, handsomely packaged, it is by no means the whole truth and nothing but the truth...but it is invaluable as an insider's account of life at the eye of the hurricane that was the Beatles. This is how Paul McCartney remembers the events and personalities that revolutionized music and popular culture in the 1960s - or is it more how he wants the world to remember them?....So call this book the Good News According to Paul. His main point, argued repeatedly and persuasively, is that he and John were creative equals who thrived on their differences, and that a less balanced relationship could not have survived the immense pressures exerted by the world and their own personalities....This is McCartney's version of history, not the definitive biography of the man, and despite its faults it's a fun, occasionally illuminating read. Paul tells Miles at one point that he and John had to be two of the luckiest people in this century to have met each other. But try to imagine a world where songs like 'Yesterday,' 'Strawberry Fields Forever,' 'Fool on the Hill' and 'A Day in the Life' had never been written, and it's pretty clear it's we who are the lucky ones." -- Mark Hertsgaard

-- Salon

Bibliographic Details

Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
Published date: 1997
Size: 6.5 x 10 inches
Weight: 2.55 pounds
Pages: 654

Publisher's Notes

Based on hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews with author Barry Miles, and complete access to McCartney's own archives, this is Paul McCartney in his own words. It is a history from the inside of one of the greatest songwriting partnerships of the century. It's the private life of a man made public property--a Beatle--by the age of 21. It's the trajectory of the most popular pop group in history, from beginnings to break-up. It's a chronicle of the 60s by the man at the center of the storm. It's music, drugs, women, money, madness, the Maharishi, art, love, peace, and bitterness. Beginning to end, it's the story as never told before. There have been countless words written--and not a few sung--about Paul McCartney. In "Many Years from Now", he sets the record straight.

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