The living embodiment of The Beatles and a musical juggernaut without parallel, Paul McCartney is the patriarch of pop. Ahead of McCartney’s 80th birthday and Glastonbury headline set, acclaimed author Howard Sounes creates the most accurate and extensive profile of McCartney ever built, leaving no stone unturned, and no shadow unexplored.
He is the torch-bearer of the Beatles – the greatest band in pop – and one of the most closely studied stars in show business. But surprises and secrets still linger in the life of Sir Paul McCartney.
In FAB, his full story is told for the first time.
Acclaimed author Howard Sounes spent more than two years investigating every aspect of Sir Paul’s life and work, including interviewing over 200 people. The result is the richest and more comprehensive biography of McCartney ever written.
Uniquely, FAB pays equal attention to the story of Paul McCartney both in the Beatles and post-Beatles, creating a unique narrative spanning the arc of the artist’s life. FAB culminates in the sensational human story of Sir Paul’s calamitous marriage to Heather Mills, which is fully revealed for the first time. Sounes proves a judicious critic of the music of an iconic star while also delivering a superb psychological portrait of the man.
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The living embodiment of The Beatles and a musical juggernaut without parallel, Paul McCartney is the patriarch of pop. Ahead of McCartney’s 80th birthday and Glastonbury headline set, acclaimed author Howard Sounes creates the most accurate and extensive profile of McCartney ever built, leaving no stone unturned, and no shadow unexplored.
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‘The best Beatles book since Revolution in the Head. Thumbs up’ Classic Rock
‘As an exhaustive account of McCartney’s life, FAB is unparalleled.’ Q Magazine
‘The definitive take on an extraordinary career’ Record Collector
‘Intrigues all the way through’ The Times
‘Difficult to put down’ Mojo
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Revised and Updated Edition
Revised and Updated Edition
(1x8pp plates)
• Paul McCartney is one of the biggest stars in the world. His fame and popularity, along with that of the Beatles, is a genuine global phenomenon.
• Howard Sounes is well known as a meticulous and authoritative biographer. His work on Rose and Fred West, Fred & Rose has sold 157k copies and his biography of Bob Dylan, Down the Highway, revealed many things about Dylan that were previously unknown, including his second marriage, to great critical acclaim.
• Sounes interviewed over 220 people to create this masterpiece, which he called ‘a better-balanced, more detailed and more comprehensive’ account than any other biography of Sir Paul.
• Although there have been previous biographies of Paul McCartney, all are either out of date, out of print or of dubious quality. None deal well with Paul's later years or have adequately addressed his marriage and divorce with Heather Mills.
• FAB was serialised in The Daily Mail on publication, which reached thousands of readers across the country and generated a huge amount of interest.
Competition: Ian Dury, The Definitive Biography; I am Ozzy; Redemption Song: The Ballad of Joe Strummer; McCartney: The Definitive Biography, by Chris Salewicz
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780007293193
Publisert
2011-06-23
Utgiver
Vendor
HarperCollins
Vekt
430 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
32 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
624
Forfatter
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Howard Sounes is the author of several acclaimed non-fiction books including the bestselling Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan (2001), an equally well-regarded life of the cult writer Charles Bukowski, as well as the true crime classic Fred & Rose (1995). He lives in London.