Wednesday 25 July 2018

Book Review: Fab: An Intimate Life of Paul McCartney by Howard Sounes

Are you a fan of the classics? If yes, then Greatess is the place for you. The living embodiment of The Beatles, a musical juggernaut without parallel, Paul McCartney is undoubtedly the senior figure in pop music today.


In this authoritative biography, journalist and acclaimed author Howard Sounes leaves no stone unturned in building the most accurate and extensive profile yet of music's greatest living legend. Puttnam and Murray are among some 220 people with whom Howard Sounes talked or corresponded for what he believes is "a better-balanced, more detailed and more comprehensive life" than any so far. These include many from the heyday of Merseybeat, as well as friends, neighbours and fellow-musicians. McCartney was, from the get-go, the most ambitious Beatle, convinced from an early age that he would be famous. Fab is the definitive portrait of McCartney, a man of contradictions and a consummate musician far more ruthless, ambitious, and moody than his relaxed public image implies.

Based on original research and more than two hundred new interviews, Fab also reveals for the first time the full story of his two marriages, romances, family feuds, phenomenal wealth, and complex relationships with his fellow ex-Beatles.

This book was very well researched. Mccartney's story itself is so incredible that the book never fails to be anything less than readable but Sounse's own conservative, square views that riddle the book to its detriment.

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