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Tom Doyle harks back to the 1970’s a time when Paul McCartney’s life was in total contrast to the man he is today. For Paul McCartney, the 1970’s were a time of uncertainty, the Beatles split to the death of John Lennon, global wandering and drug busts to the shock of imprisonment in Japan for possession of marijuana. How did Paul McCartney adapt and survive after this troublesome decade?
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Millions of words have been written about Paul McCartney, you’d think there would be nothing new to find out! But Tom Doyle reveals a very different man to his contemporary ‘thumbs aloft’, establishment image. He takes us hurtling through Macca’s first post-Beatles decade with real verve and insight. And he packed a lot in! There’s his nervous breakdown after the Beatles’ split, his drug busts, his banned (and occasionally baffling) records, the trials and triumphs of Wings, his Japanese jail time, his fraught relationships with his Beatle band mates, and the nightmare of John Lennon’s murder. Tom really excels at writing about the music—you can tell how much time he’s spent with his headphones on—and the excess of the music industry (so many lavish parties!) And it is impossible not to revisit the songs yourself after reading: what a treat! Vikki O’Reilly, Sales & marketing Manager, Polygon Books (and lifelong Beatles nut!)
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Man on the Run Paul McCartney in the 1970s Synopsis
The most famous living rock musician on the planet, Paul McCartney is now regarded as a slightly cosy figure, an (inter)national treasure. Back in the 1970s, however, McCartney cut a very different figure. He was, literally, a man on the run. Desperately trying to escape the shadow of the Beatles, he became an outlaw hippy millionaire, hiding out on his Scottish farmhouse in Kintyre before travelling the world with makeshift bands and barefoot children. It was a time of numerous drug busts and brilliant, banned and occasionally baffling records. For McCartney, it was an edgy, liberating and sometimes frightening period of his life that has largely been forgotten. Man on the Run paints an illuminating picture: from McCartney's nervous breakdown following the Beatles' split through his apparent victimisation by the authorities to the rude awakening of his imprisonment for marijuana possession in Japan in 1980 and the shocking wake-up call of John Lennon's murder. Ultimately, it poses the question: if you were one quarter of the Beatles, could you really outrun your past?
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9781846972928 |
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4th September 2014 |
Author: |
Tom Doyle |
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Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited an imprint of Birlinn General |
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Paperback |
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Biographies & Autobiographies
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About Tom Doyle
Tom Doyle is an acclaimed music journalist, author and long-standing contributing editor to Q, whose work has also appeared in Mojo, the Guardian, Marie Claire, Elle, The Times and Sound on Sound. Over the years he has been responsible for key magazine-cover profiles of Paul McCartney, Keith Richards, Kate Bush, Elton John, R.E.M. and U2, amongst many others. He is the author of 'The Glamour Chase: The Maverick Life of Billy MacKenzie' (Bloomsbury 1998, Polygon 2011) which has attained the status of a classic rock biography since its original publication.
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