Man on the Run: Paul McCartney in the 1970s - Softcover

Doyle, Tom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1846972922 ISBN 13: 9781846972928

Verlag: Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited, 2014

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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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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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1846972922
• ISBN 13: 9781846972928
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304
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