![]() The book begins with the death spasms of the Fabs, setting the stage where McCartney not only left the group publicly first, but was essentially forced to sue his three bandmates (who were spellbound by the highly questionable influence of manager Allen Klein) to legally dissolve the group. They also had access to or uncovered thousands of never-before-seen documents. That resulted in scores of fresh interviews for the book, and the authors drew on their own archive of tens of thousands of McCartney’s print, audio, and video interviews. ![]() ![]() ![]() The music journalist and documentarian respectively have dropped first massive tome in a planned series focusing on Paul McCartney’s post-Beatles era in The McCartney Legacy, Volume 1: 1969-1973 (720 pp., $35, Dey Street Books).Īnd while the subject himself declined to speak with the pair (McCartney has kept away from biographers, though he did tacitly contribute to friend Barry Miles’ 1997 bio Many Years from Now), he gave implied permission for others to speak with the authors. ![]() That’s the charge, challenge, and expertly delivered goods of Allan Kozinn and Adrian Sinclair. ![]()
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