Life of a Beatle - the biography of Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney: The Biography, Philip Norman, Orion, pbk, 864 pages, €19.99
Paul McCartney's choice for biographer surprised everyone, even the writer himself, says our reviewer.
Upon the release of Wings' 1977 bagpipe dirge 'Mull of Kintyre', the Sunday Times let fly a volley of verse against the ex-Beatle. It ended: "Oh, deified scouse with unmusical spouse/For the cliches and cloy you unload/To an anodyne tune may they bury you soon/In the middlemost midst of the road."
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