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Author:	Chet Flippo
Title:	McCartney The Biography
Publisher:	Sidgwick & Jackson
Country:	UK
Date:	Sep 1988
Format:	Hardcover
Genre:	Biography, Music, Non-Fiction
ISBN-10:	0283997680
ISBN-13:	9780283997686
Total Editions:	2
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414 pages. Book dimensions: 16.2 cms x 5 cms x 24.1 cms.

From the inner left flap of the dust jacket:

Paul McCartney was critically acclaimed as the most popular member of the most influential group of all time and he remains a phenomenal success story as one of the greatest songwriters ever. Born to working class parents in Liverpool, McCartney is now one of the three wealthiest men in Britain, selling over 100 million albums worldwide.

McCartney - The Biography is the first full-scale critical biography of this astonishing man. McCartney's life is a magical mystery tour designed to capture and enrapture the world. But who is Paul McCartney really? A musical genius? A media manipulator? Filled with stories of rapture and rifts, and startling revelations about Paul's megalomaniacal character, this book brings to life the real McCartney.

Twenty-five years ago, McCartney and his fellow Beatles stunned the world, changing the standards of music history. From the Silver Beatles’ early beginning in Liverpool to the perverse clubs of Hamburg; the groupies, the drugs, the tours, the girlfriends to the White Album; and the mysterious ‘Paul id dead’ rumour to his incredible success with the supergroup Wings, this revelationary new book covers it all in glorious detail. What really happened between McCartney and the other Beatles? What was the reason for his feud with Yoko Ono? Why has he refused to talk to the press openly for the last ten years? McCartney - The Biography takes a candid and often controversial look at the man who just couldn’t ‘let it be’.

Cover price: £15.95.

First reprint April 1989.

Published in the USA by Doubleday as Yesterday: The Unauthorized Biography Of Paul McCartney.

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JPGR&B SUBS 30th Dec 2021		Review Annotation: One of my favourite texts of the 1990s was Chet Flippo's biographical novel concerning Hank Williams - an excellent piece of work throughout. This text, however brings Flippo's name somewhat into disrepute, for it is a 400-page clip job from start to finish. Most Beatles fans will recognise entire chunks drafted in from other, more authentic writers such as Norman, Lewisohn, Taylor and Best. Even worse than this, most of the author's 'research' appears to have come from press cuttings featured in the Lewisohn Beatles Live reference work, which would be fair enough if that latter text had been cited - but it was not. The lack of balance within the book is also dreadful. The years between 1963 and 1966 are covered in 14 pages, whereas a second-hand rant about Sgt. Pepper takes up 35 pages. As with most writers concerned with McCartney's musical muse, there is as much about the Beatles in Hamburg as there is Wings. While Flippo can obviously write, this text is merely a litany of unstructured blurb (and who says the song 'Another Day' was about 'domestic bliss'?). Not recommended, I'm afraid. Michael Brocken Source: The Beatles Bibliography: A New Guide To The Literature - Michael Brocken and Melissa Davis (The Beatle Works Ltd., 2012), with acknowledgement, and used here for educational and historical purposes. ✔︎ Helpful Review?

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Chet Flippo - McCartney The Biography - Fontana - Paperback - UK - 0006374964 (1989)