Paul McCartney: The Biography
Autor Philip Normanen Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 mai 2017
Imaginea este aproape cinematografică: un tânăr de 21 de ani care devine brusc proprietate publică, în timp ce Londra anilor '60 vibrează sub asediul cultural al unei trupe care avea să redefinească muzica modernă. Observăm în această biografie monumentală nu doar ascensiunea unui star, ci și mecanismele fragile ale geniului. Philip Norman ne introduce în intimitatea conacului din Weybridge, unde găsim în această carte relatarea fidelă a momentelor în care parteneriatul Lennon-McCartney dădea naștere unor imnuri generaționale. Reținem finețea cu care autorul explorează vulnerabilitățile lui Paul, de la teama că serviciul militar obligatoriu ar fi putut anihila trupa înainte de debut, până la reconstrucția identitară post-Beatles alături de Linda și proiectul Wings. Ca și John Lennon de Philip Norman, această biografie transformă documentele de arhivă și mărturiile directe într-o narațiune fluidă, oferind acea perspectivă „fly-on-the-wall” pe care puțini biografi o pot stăpâni. Stilul lui Norman este meticulos și pătrunzător, integrând acest volum într-o serie de portrete esențiale ale titanilor rock, alături de lucrările sale dedicate lui George Harrison sau Eric Clapton. Dincolo de mitul „Macca”, descoperim omul care a continuat să creeze și să performeze pe cele mai mari scene ale lumii, de la Glastonbury până la ceremoniile olimpice, rămânând o figură centrală a culturii globale timp de peste șase decenii.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1780226403
Pagini: 855
Dimensiuni: 133 x 197 x 53 mm
Greutate: 0.69 kg
Editura: Orion Publishing Group
Colecția W&N
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
De ce să citești această carte
Recomandăm această carte oricărui meloman care dorește să înțeleagă arhitectura din spatele celui mai de succes compozitor din istoria pop. Cititorul câștigă acces la detalii intime despre procesul creativ și tensiunile din spatele fenomenului Beatles. Este o lucrare de referință care echilibrează rigoarea jurnalistică cu o poveste fascinantă despre supraviețuire artistică și reinventare permanentă, fiind considerată una dintre cele mai complete biografii ale lui Sir Paul McCartney.
Despre autor
Philip Norman este un reputat jurnalist și romancier britanic, recunoscut la nivel mondial pentru biografiile sale autoritare despre figurile emblematice ale muzicii rock. În 1968, a avut privilegiul de a documenta utopia de afaceri a celor de la The Beatles, Apple Corps, chiar din interior, experiență care i-a oferit o perspectivă unică asupra fenomenului. Este autorul bestsellerului „Shout!: The Beatles in Their Generation” și a semnat biografii definitorii pentru artiști precum Buddy Holly, Elton John, Mick Jagger și Jimi Hendrix, fiind considerat unul dintre cei mai meticuloși cronicari ai istoriei muzicale contemporane.
Descriere
The first biography written with McCartney's approval and with access to family members and friends closest to him.
In 2013, Sir Paul McCartney granted Philip Norman 'tacit approval' as his biographer. The result is a masterly and complex portrait of the most successful songwriter in history.
It gives a unique insight into McCartney's childhood, blighted by the loss of his mother when he was fourteen, and into the creative symbiosis and fierce rivalry between John Lennon and himself that powered the Beatles' music. Here, too, for the first time, is the full story of McCartney's triumphant but troubled post-Beatles years: the tragic death of his first wife, Linda, and the chaotic divorce from his second wife, Heather Mills.
Paul McCartney is the definitive life of a long-misunderstood genius that superbly evokes half a century of popular music and culture.
Recenzii
A thorough, objective telling of McCartney's story - in and out of the most famous band ever. But it's also a breezy read, considering the tremendous ground it covers
Meticulous character study that adeptly shuns hero worship
Where [the] book succeeds the most is bringing the reader into McCartney's private life... The most up-to-date account of Paul's life to yet appear
A compelling narrative about a working-class Liverpudlian whose extraordinary musical gifts made him the most successful songwriter in history... McCartney emerges from [the book] as a textured but decent man
Norman makes meaningful use of his access to members of Macca's Liverpool clan, a colourful crew to whom he's always remained close, as well as many business and musical associates, friends, lovers, collaborators and flunkies ... The Beatles story is so amazing in every respect that when it's told as well as this, it's worth reading again
An enormous and sympathetic book ... The story of its subject's life from his childhood in Liverpool through the breakup of the Beatles in 1970 has lost none of its ability to charm ... One of the best stories the past century has to tell
Philip Norman's considered biography portrays the 'cute' Beatle in all his creative complexity and breadth
This biography is a compelling chronicle of the life of an immortal icon
This 800-page opus is crammed with detail ... Read it for the detail and humour of the early years, and marvel at the revelations
Meticulous detail ... you can even smell the sweat, rat shit and basement mold in the Cavern Club ... Even Macca, who, to Norman's surprise, agreed to give him "tacit approval" without directly particpating, apparently had to concede that the guy is a Beatles scholar to reckon with. The Beatles' startlingly brief career is recounted expertly; Norman knows his facts ... vivid storytelling ... Norman gets as close as anyone has yet.
Norman is perhaps the only biographer to provide an exegesis of the one Beatle most everyone gets wrong. This is thrillingly thorough stuff ... richness of detail ... McCartney is a rounded figure here
[Norman] is a good interviewer and the book is charming when he lets his Liverpool sources speak about the days before the Beatles were inevitable ... Paul McCartney is full of things that happened to Paul McCartney and through absurd fame and a few tragedies he appears to be an unusually decent man with few regrets
Written with the tacit approval of its subject, Philip Norman's Paul McCartney: The Biography is the most thorough examination to date of the ex-Beatle's life and music, also serving to set the record straight on McCartney's central importance in the group once described as "the 20th century's greatest romance"
A colourful and detailed account of Macca's life and music
A very fair and multi-layered biography
What's left to reveal about one of the most chronicled musicians of the 20th century? As it turns out, a great deal. With the notoriously guarded McCartney's "tacit approval," Norman sheds new light on well-known Beatles stories and then goes further, forging a thoroughly absorbing account of McCartney's life after the group's breakup: business ventures, parenthood, personal tragedy, the struggle to live and create beyond the legacy of his fabled band. The result is a tantalizing trip down the legend's own long and winding road.