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Paul McCartney de Philip Norman

Paul McCartney

Autor Philip Norman
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 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-13: 9780316327978
ISBN-10: 0316327972
Pagini: 864
Dimensiuni: 151 x 233 x 43 mm
Greutate: 0.99 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company

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 scurtă

The definitive Paul McCartney biography, written with his approval by bestselling biographer Philip Norman.

Since the age of twenty-one, Paul McCartney has lived one of the ultimate rock-n-roll lives played out on the most public of stages. Now, Paul's story is told by rock music's foremost biographer, with McCartney's consent and access to family members and close friends who have never spoken on the record before. PAUL MCCARTNEY reveals the complex character behind the façade and sheds new light on his childhood--blighted by his mother's death but redeemed by the father who introduced him to music.

This is the first definitive account of Paul's often troubled partnership with John Lennon, his personal trauma after the Beatles' breakup, and his subsequent struggle to get back to the top with Wings--which nearly got him murdered in Africa and brought him nine days in a Tokyo jail. Readers will learn about his marriage to Linda, including their much-criticized musical collaboration, and a moving account of her death. Packed with new information and critical insights, PAUL MCCARTNEY will be the definitive biography of a musical legend.

Notă biografică

Philip Norman is the bestselling biographer of Buddy Holly, the Rolling Stones, John Lennon, Elton John, and Mick Jagger, and the author of the classic Beatles biography SHOUT! He is also a novelist and playwright. He lives in London.

Recenzii

One of Amazon's Best Books of the Month

A San Francisco Chronicle Holiday Gift Guide Pick

"An enormous and sympathetic book.... It's rich with detail about Mr. McCartney's philanthropy, his knighthood, his taste in country homes, his dabbling as a painter, a poet and a composer of classical music.... 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."—Dwight Garner, New York Times
"Norman offers a fully-fleshed out biography . . . What Norman gets so very right are the feelings: the intense relationship between John and Paul with its curves and angles; the normality being a husband and father brought him; the improbability of being one of the most famous men in the world. The shelves are full of books about the Beatles, but fans will want to make room for this one."—Ilene Cooper, Booklist (starred)
"The most thorough and insightful biography of Paul McCartney to date.... Paul McCartney: The Life is loaded with wonderful passages, fascinating stories and cracking humor... A masterful account, the kind of biography fitting McCartney's continued prowess and genius. Or, as McCartney said at the end of one Beatles take, 'Keep that one. Mark it 'FAB.''"—Jeremy Mikula, Chicago Tribune
"Norman's portrait of McCartney is fascinating and exhaustive.... Norman lifts the curtain to show us the real guy."—William McKeen, Boston Globe
"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."—Jeff Slate, Esquire
"Norman is an enviably skilled pen-portraitist, with a consummate ability to conjure the presence of [McCartney].... A powerful sense of McCartney the man comes across in this book's evocative high points.... A capably executed biography, brimming with detail."—John Harris, The Guardian
"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."—Graham Boynton, Newsweek
"Norman is thorough... and his book gives us a fuller McCartney than you'll find anywhere else."—Colin Fleming, Washington Post
"Norman shows McCartney in all his colors: artist, songwriter, genius, family man, and businessman... Even those of us with bookshelves full of Beatles books and libraries of bootleg recordings will be surprised by what they read in The Life."—Laurie Ulster, bio.
"The once-for-all-time record of the lad from Liverpool whose song lyrics and boyish good looks broke hearts and whose career after the Beatles was almost as successful as his time with them."—Henry L. Carrigan Jr., BookPage
"Norman's 2008 book John Lennon: The Life became the best single-volume work on its subject. Now, with this book, Norman has done the same for McCartney..."—Bob Ruggiero, Houston Press
"Where [the] book succeeds the most is bringing the reader into Mr. McCartney's private life... The most up-to-date account of Paul's life to yet appear."—The Economist
"Philip Norman's considered biography portrays the 'cute' Beatle in all his creative complexity and breadth."—Neil Spencer, The Guardian
"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.... The result is a tantalizing trip down the legend's own long and winding road."—Oprah Magazine
"Where Norman's depth of knowledge comes in handy is in his descriptions of the Beatles, and McCartney in particular, at work... His book conveys a strong enough sense of McCartney's temperament and life priorities to give readers a new understanding of how utterly they're reflected in his art."—Tom Carson, The Barnes & Noble Review
"Norman offers a surprising portrayal of a driven and even haunted artist--his biography reminds us why, more than 50 years after he achieved fame, the world is still singing along with McCartney's story."—Clarke Crutchfield, Richmond Times-Dispatch
"The musician's definitive and authoritative biography."—Publishers Weekly
"Vivid storytelling....In his seventies, Sir Paul is still outpacing those trying to tell his story. Nevertheless, Norman gets as close as anyone has."—Will Hermes, Rolling Stone
"The biography is full of interesting bits of information.... Mr. Norman reminds us that we should be truly grateful that the Magical Mystery Tour guided by Paul McCartney remains a gift that keeps on giving."—Glenn C. Altschuler, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"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."—Josh Tyrangiel, New York Times Book Review
"The agenda of Paul McCartney: The Life is clear: to give the enduringly popular, almost inconceivably successful former Beatle his due...[and] the book succeeds at that."—David Hajdu, The Nation
"Mr. Norman has done his research... he has uncovered yet more material, and tells his story with flair."—Christopher Walsh, The East Hampton Star
"Well-researched... The more than 800-page biography covers others areas of McCartney's life including his time with the Beatles and Wings along with his children and wife Linda - and much more. Fans of the Beatles or Paul McCartney will enjoy this book."—Glenn Perrett

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'A thorough, objective telling of McCartney's story - in and out of the most famous band ever.' ESQUIRE

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.