Fly Away Paul: The extraordinary story of how Paul McCartney survived the Beatles and found his Wings
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‘No other book has come close to capturing so well what Paul McCartney is about, nor described so vividly his mental breakdown when the Beatles separated, nor his need for Linda to nurse him back to good health…the book is packed with trivia, not for the sake of it but because it throws light onto the way Paul developed. And it’s fascinating; every word of it. It’s an extraordinarily brilliant book.’ SIMON NAPIER-BELL
‘…another amazing book. Your meticulous research is second to none.’ JOHNNIE WALKER
The first definitive account of Paul McCartney’s time in Wings, publishing on the fiftieth anniversary of the bestselling album Band on the Run
No comprehensive biography of the time Paul McCartney spent with Wings has ever been published. A period often dismissed as McCartney’s ‘missing’ years, in fact the band lasted for a decade: two years longer than the Beatles, and wielded such impact and influence that they at one point achieved the status as the biggest live band in the world. Band on the Run sold over 6 million copies worldwide and became EMI’s biggest selling album of the 1970s in the UK.
Music biographer Lesley-Ann Jones has met McCartney many times and knew his late wife Linda. Here she shows how crucial Linda was to the evolution of Wings – at great cost to herself given the ridicule she was to encounter. But Linda saw that McCartney needed the band in the wake of the break up of the Beatles.
Drawing on extensive interviews and her trademark meticulous research, the author shows how this period in Paul McCartney’s career was to become crucial not only to his development as an artist, but to his very survival.
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Additional information
| Publisher | Coronet, Illustrated edition (19 Oct. 2023) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Hardcover | 352 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1399721771 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1399721776 |
| Dimensions | 16.2 x 3.4 x 23.6 cm |
by Hammondman
Insightful, illuminating book on Paul McCartney’s metamorphosis from a core member of The Beatles, the biggest band the world had ever seen, into a highly successful solo artist. As he continues to sell out stadiums across the world we tend to assume that success was pre-ordained but as this book shows it was anything but, and had many bumps along the way. As someone who was brought up on the Kintyre peninsula in the heady days of “Mull of Kintyre” it has a personal resonance but also fills a lot of the gaps in my understanding of the wider forces at play during this time. As well as providing an index (should be mandatory for EVERY non-fiction work) the author has provided copious notes that provide additional background and suggestions to further reading. Thoroughly recommended.
by Peter and The
Having read, amongst others, Tom Doyle’s superb “Man On The Run” and Kozinn and Sinclair’s mind blowing “The McCartney Legacy Volume 1: 1969-73”, I put this book down not having gleaned very much. The author is a talented wordsmith but this book taught me very little that I didn’t already know. The book is riddled with factual inaccuracies and fails to illuminate. If you’re searching for Macca illumination, keep looking.
by Luke Bodnar
This book is an incredible insight to Paul McCartney – I couldn’t put it down. Lesley-Ann has delivered yet again another sensational biography. A must buy.