The McCartney Legacy, Allan Kozinn
The McCartney Legacy, Allan Kozinn
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The McCartney Legacy
Volume 1: 1969 – 73

Author: Allan Kozinn, Adrian Sinclair

Narrator: Simon Vance

Unabridged: 29 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 12/13/2022

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

In this first of a groundbreaking multivolume set, THE MCCARTNEY LEGACY, VOL 1: 1969-73 captures the life of Paul McCartney in the years immediately following the dissolution of the Beatles, a period in which McCartney recreated himself as both a man and a musician. Informed by hundreds of interviews, extensive ground up research, and thousands of never-before-seen documents THE MCCARTNEY LEGACY, VOL 1 is an in depth, revealing exploration of McCartney’s creative and personal lives beyond the Beatles.When Paul McCartney issued a press release in April 1970 announcing that the world’s most beloved band, the Beatles, had broken up no one could have predicted that McCartney himself would go on to have one of the most successful solo careers in music history. Yet in the years after the Fab Four disbanded, Paul McCartney became a legend in his own right. Now journalist and world-renowned Beatles’ historian Allan Kozinn and award-winning documentarian Adrian Sinclair chronicle in technicolor McCartney’s pivotal years from 1969 to 1973, as he recreated himself in the immediate aftermath of the Beatles breakup – a period when, newly married and with a growing family, he conquered depression and self-doubt, formed a new band, Wings, and recorded five epochal albums culminating in the triumphant smash, Band on the Run.Part 1 of a multivolume set, THE MCCARTNEY LEGACY, VOL. 1 documents a pivotal moment in the life of a man whose legacy grows increasingly more relevant as his influence on music and pop culture remains as relevant as ever. It is the first truly comprehensive biography, and the most finely detailed exploration of McCartney’s creative life beyond the Beatles, ever undertaken.Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

About Allan Kozinn

Allan Kozinn was a music critic and culture reporter for the New York Times from 1977 to 2014, where he wrote principally about classical music. In that capacity, he interviewed Paul McCartney several times, and saw him perform in a great variety of configurations and venues—from singing with a hand mic at the Lonestar Roadhouse, playing rock oldies at the Cavern, in Liverpool, and performing in small halls like the Ed Sullivan Theater and the Highline Ballroom, to full-scale concerts at Madison Square Garden and Yankee Stadium. He currently contributes regularly to the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post and other publications. He has taught courses at the Juilliard School and New York University (including a course on the Beatles at the latter), and has written seven books, among them The Beatles—From the Cavern to the Rooftop (1995), Got That Something! How The Beatles’ ‘I Want to Hold Your Hand’ Changed Everything (2013), The New York Times Essential Guide—Classical Music (2004).

About Adrian Sinclair

The principal researcher for the McCartney Legacy series, Adrian Sinclair studied film at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and served a traineeship with ITV in Yorkshire, England, where he learned his craft as a documentary film editor. He’s worked for almost every major broadcaster in the world, including the BBC, ITV, Sky, Channel 4, National Geographic, Discovery and MTV. As well as receiving recognition for his work from the Royal Television Society in England, Adrian’s 2010 documentary Stealing Shakespeare (BBC/Smithsonian) was Emmy shortlisted for Best Documentary. 

Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul on January 30, 2023

This was definitely a case of What Was I Thinking when I Asked for This For Christmas?? In 2013 a guy named Tom Doyle wrote an excellent book Man On the Run: Paul McCartney in the 1970s. He took 285 pages to cover the whole decade. Now two other guys Kozinn and Sinclair have produced this FIRST volum......more

Goodreads review by *TUDOR^QUEEN* on December 09, 2022

Five Stars This mammoth book was almost a decade in the making, originally intended to be a sessionography of a post-Beatles Paul McCartney...but (thankfully) evolved into a full-fledged biography. The digital early reviewer copy I read was 1,000 pages, the last 20% accounting for bibliography, disco......more

Goodreads review by Tobin on January 12, 2023

Gotta say, after having read literally hundreds of books about either the Beatles as a group, or the individual members, or peripheral personalities (Epstein, George Martin, Sutcliffe, Best), I'd finally reached the point where I decided, no more. There's nothing new to be learned. Yeah, well, first......more

Goodreads review by ZeeMi on January 03, 2023

You better really REALLY be interested in All Things McCartney, because that's what this book delivers. Focussing solely on the artist's first four post-Beatles years (more volumes are to come), the authors have written a detailed, clearly written and largely fascinating portrait of the artist. The......more

Goodreads review by Dave on May 21, 2023

Part solo music session/ part in-depth history of Sir Paul's life and time from the Beatles break-up through 1973 which covers his first solo album through his work with Wings and Band on the Run. Kozinn uncovers every twist, turn, tour and all the drama in between in this thoroughly examined book......more

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