Paul McCartney: A Life
36 hrs. 12 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Philip Norman
Author
Philip Norman
Narrator
Igor Knyazev
Narrator
Igor Knyazev
Description
The most complete, most candid biography of the legendary Paul McCartney!
And it’s also the most detailed—an incredible 36 hours of a truly captivating story of success by the greatest musician!
It’s the story of a 16-time Grammy Award laureate, holder of the title of knight bachelor, an enormous number of international state honors, including the Order of the British Empire and the Legion of Honour, of the writer, producer, and—of course—one of the greatest performers in the history of world music, Sir James Paul McCartney. Philip Norman describes in detail and with painstaking thoroughness the whole difficult path McCartney took—from kindergarten on Stockton Road in Liverpool and meeting George Harrison on a school bus, who lived nearby, to the 2014 album New and the Out There 2015 tour. Relationships with fans and colleagues, personal life and creative quests, great triumphs and loud failures, rumors and facts—this is a wonderful gift for all music lovers.
A biography of the legendary musician, written by the well-known journalist Philip Norman, author of the book “Hey!—Tell Me: The Beatles: An Illustrated Record of Their Story” (and “Shout! The True Story of the Beatles”) and biographies of Mick Jagger, Buddy Holly, Elton John, Eric Clapton, and John Lennon.
A book approved by Sir Paul McCartney himself.
Philip Norman approaches the biography of a music legend with all the necessary seriousness, but without stiffness in his knees. In his book, McCartney is not a flawless knight of pop culture, but a complex, many-sided, and ambiguous personality, with his own secrets and riddles. The author goes through with his hero all the major—known and not-so-known—stages of his biography: meeting John Lennon, performances in seedy bars and strip clubs in Hamburg, phenomenally amazing fame unequaled by any other music group, disagreements with John, George, and Ringo, the break-up of The Beatles, problems with drugs, a whole string of court cases like “McCartney v. Lennon, Harrison, Starks, and Apple Corps,” considered in court, where McCartney attended every hearing in a double-breasted striped suit from the legendary Abbey Road cover. And then—new stage, new groups, new albums, new hits. At the same time, Norman manages to maintain an unusually precise balance between the purely biographical part, analysis of the main works, and an attempt to at least grasp why suddenly Paul McCartney appeared in Liverpool—and why it hasn’t happened again since then.
And it’s also the most detailed—an incredible 36 hours of a truly captivating story of success by the greatest musician!
It’s the story of a 16-time Grammy Award laureate, holder of the title of knight bachelor, an enormous number of international state honors, including the Order of the British Empire and the Legion of Honour, of the writer, producer, and—of course—one of the greatest performers in the history of world music, Sir James Paul McCartney. Philip Norman describes in detail and with painstaking thoroughness the whole difficult path McCartney took—from kindergarten on Stockton Road in Liverpool and meeting George Harrison on a school bus, who lived nearby, to the 2014 album New and the Out There 2015 tour. Relationships with fans and colleagues, personal life and creative quests, great triumphs and loud failures, rumors and facts—this is a wonderful gift for all music lovers.
A biography of the legendary musician, written by the well-known journalist Philip Norman, author of the book “Hey!—Tell Me: The Beatles: An Illustrated Record of Their Story” (and “Shout! The True Story of the Beatles”) and biographies of Mick Jagger, Buddy Holly, Elton John, Eric Clapton, and John Lennon.
A book approved by Sir Paul McCartney himself.
Philip Norman approaches the biography of a music legend with all the necessary seriousness, but without stiffness in his knees. In his book, McCartney is not a flawless knight of pop culture, but a complex, many-sided, and ambiguous personality, with his own secrets and riddles. The author goes through with his hero all the major—known and not-so-known—stages of his biography: meeting John Lennon, performances in seedy bars and strip clubs in Hamburg, phenomenally amazing fame unequaled by any other music group, disagreements with John, George, and Ringo, the break-up of The Beatles, problems with drugs, a whole string of court cases like “McCartney v. Lennon, Harrison, Starks, and Apple Corps,” considered in court, where McCartney attended every hearing in a double-breasted striped suit from the legendary Abbey Road cover. And then—new stage, new groups, new albums, new hits. At the same time, Norman manages to maintain an unusually precise balance between the purely biographical part, analysis of the main works, and an attempt to at least grasp why suddenly Paul McCartney appeared in Liverpool—and why it hasn’t happened again since then.
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