Philip Norman 
Paul McCartney 
The Biography

‘A thorough, objective telling of Mc Cartney’s story – in and out of the most famous band ever.’ ESQUIREThe first biography written with Mc Cartney’s approval and with access to family members and friends closest to him.In 2013, Sir Paul Mc Cartney granted Philip Norman ‘tacit approval’ as his biographer. The result is a masterly and complex portrait of the most successful songwriter in history.It gives a unique insight into Mc Cartney’s childhood, blighted by the loss of his mother when he was fourteen, and into the creative symbiosis and fierce rivalry between John Lennon and himself that powered the Beatles’ music. Here, too, for the first time, is the full story of Mc Cartney’s triumphant but troubled post-Beatles years: the tragic death of his first wife, Linda, and the chaotic divorce from his second wife, Heather Mills.Paul Mc Cartney is the definitive life of a long-misunderstood genius that superbly evokes half a century of popular music and culture.