The McCartney Legacy: Volume 2: 1974 – 80 (Hardback)
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The McCartney Legacy: Volume 2: 1974 – 80 (Hardback)

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Published: 10/12/2024
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The follow-up to The McCartney Legacy, Volume 1, the most complete work on the life and work of Paul McCartney ever published. Volume 2 continues to paint the portrait of one of the world’s greatest musicians, his work post-Beatles, and his life from 1974 to 1980.

By 1974 the Beatles were a distant memory, and Paul McCartney had already gone on to release a solo album and form a new band, Wings. By the end of the decade Wings would be the bestselling band of the 1970s. The McCartney Legacy, Vol. 2 begins in 1974 at the height of Wings popularity and the beginning of McCartney’s next chapter.

Picking up immediately after The McCartney Legacy, Volume 1, authors Allan Kozinn and Adrian Sinclair have brought the same exhaustive research ethos to Volume 2 that made the first volume a critical success. Arguably the most authoritative text on the life of Paul McCartney, Volume 2 follows McCartney the man, establishing himself as a musician beyond Beatlemania and his legacy throughout the 20th century through the present day.

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
ISBN: 9780063000759
Number of pages: 768
Weight: 1136 g
Dimensions: 232 x 187 x 55 mm


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“Volume 1 of The McCartney Legacy by Allan Kozinn and Adrian Sinclair, arrives like a well-planned encore a year after the publication of The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present by Paul McCartney. Influenced by the methods of Mark Lewisohn, the exacting Beatles historian currently at work on the second volume of a trilogy about the group (the first was 900 pages, and that was an abridgment)... in a way The McCartney Legacy out-Lewisohns Lewisohn, taking almost 700 pages to cover only five years.”  — New York Times Book Review “This is the comprehensive, painstaking, dazzling and definitive chronicle of rock’s strangest story: how Paul McCartney refused to go quietly after the Beatles, and how he kept his genius moving forward into another day. An amazing, inspiring trip.”  — Rob Sheffield, author of Dreaming the Beatles “No maybe—I’m plain amazed at this real reveal of Paul McCartney with his decades of artful creativity. Through these pages is the accurate biography of a universal explorer.”  — Mark Lewisohn, world-renowned Beatles expert “Allan Kozinn and Adrian Sinclair’s The McCartney Legacy: Volume 1, 1969-73 is a triumph... their masterful study of the artist’s spectacular rise from the ashes of the Beatles, Kozinn and Sinclair bring McCartney's comeback story vividly to life.”  — Salon.com “Anybody in the future who wants to know anything about the subject will find the information here. Allan Kozinn and Adrian Sinclair, a former New York Times music critic and a documentary maker respectively, have entirely succeeded in the task they set themselves—to find out and inform the reader of everything there is to know about the life of Paul McCartney between 1969 and 1973.”  — The Times (UK)

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“Detailed and very thorough look at Paul's early post-Beatles days”

Since I haven't read the first volume, I used that as an excuse to procrastinate and watch the Ron Howard produced movie "Eight Days a Week". It helped remind me of all that had gone down beforehand and... More

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