NORMAN, P: PAUL MCCARTNEY

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.