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Author
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st Touchstone hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
374 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Takes a look at the whole life of the Beatles star, casting new light on his years with the band Wings and wife, Linda McCartney, and revealing a man as haunted by his legacy--and particularly his relationship with John Lennon--as he was inspired by it.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Howard Sounes, the bestselling author of Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan and Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life, turns his considerable reporting and storytelling skills to one of the most famous, talentedand wealthiestmen alive: Paul McCartney.
Fab is the first exhaustive biography of the legendary musician; it tells Sir Paul's whole life story, from childhood to present day, from working-class
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Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xv, 352 pages, 8 leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An intimate portrayal of the musical icon, largely in his own words, draws on years of meetings between McCartney and the author and includes candid discussions of the artist's inspirations, creative process, beliefs, and achievements.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 257 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, photographs ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Based on exclusive first-hand interviews, a chronicle of Paul McCartney's struggles in the first decade after the Beatles' breakup discusses his reclusive life, substance abuses, arrests, and efforts to launch his band Wings.
8) Two of us
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
©2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized look at the purported get together of Paul McCartney and John Lennon in 1976.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
x, 390 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The world stopped in 1970 when Paul McCartney announced that he was through with the Beatles. His statement not only marked the end of the band's remarkable career, but also seemed to signal the demise of an era of unprecedented optimism in social history. Though the Beatles' breakup was widely viewed as a cultural tragedy, one of the most fascinating phases of their story was just about to begin. Here is the behind-the-scenes story of the personal...
Publisher
Taschen
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
231 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 27 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"Following her best-selling TASCHEN monograph Life in Photographs, discover a more intimate and highly personal side of Linda McCartney's photographic work in The Polaroid Diaries. The collection focuses on McCartney's distinctive way of seeing the world and her family, through charming and quirky portraits of Paul McCartney and the couple's four children. We see them pulling faces and in matching pajamas. We see James pouring water on himself, and...
Author
Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
711 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When Paul McCartney issued a press release in April 1970 announcing that the world's most beloved band, the Beatles, had broken up no one could have predicted that McCartney himself would go on to have one of the most successful solo careers in music history. Yet in the years after the Fab Four disbanded, Paul McCartney became a legend in his own right. Now journalist and world-renowned Beatles' historian Allan Kozinn and award-winning documentarian...
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2001
Physical Desc
9 sound discs (ca. 10 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This biography by a friend of over 30 years offers to bring the whole Linda McCartney into view. In 1969, when Linda Eastman wed Paul McCartney people said it wouldn't last. Yet it lasted nearly 30 years. How did they do it? What was the nature of their commitment, and what made it so strong? Interviews with the couple, with friends, family and stars of the world they lived in, and the perspective of a 30-year intense friendship have gone into the...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
311 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ken McNab's in-depth look at The Beatles' acrimonious final year is a detailed account of the breakup featuring the perspectives of all four band members and their roles. A must to add to the collection of Beatles fans, And In the End is full of fascinating information available for the first time. McNab reconstructs for the first time the seismic events of 1969, when The Beatles reached new highs of creativity and new lows of the internal strife...
Author
Publisher
Taschen
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : chiefly ill., ports. (some col.) ; 38 cm
Language
English
Description
In May 1968, Linda McCartney became the first female photographer to have her work on the cover of Rolling Stone. During her tenure as the leading photographer of the late 1960s musical scene, she captured many of rock's most important musicians on film, including Aretha Franklin, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Simon & Garfunkel, The Who, The Doors, and the Grateful Dead. In 1967, Linda met Paul McCartney at London's Bag O' Nails club and...
18) The love we make
Publisher
Eagle Rock Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., b&w with col. inserts; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This film follows Paul McCartney as he journeys through the streets of New York City in the aftermath of the destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001. It also chronicles the planning and performance of the benefit concert that took place less than six months after the attacks: The Concert For New York City. It also features performance clips from the benefit concert and backstage moments with many of the performers and other famous...
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