Order from a Major Online Bookstore
Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine
Save Your Time And Money
| AnyBook4Less.com | Order from a Major Online Bookstore |
|
| Home | Store List | FAQ | Contact Us | | ||
| Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine Save Your Time And Money |
||
 |
Title: Paul McCartney : Many Years From Now by Barry Miles ISBN: 0-8050-5249-6 Publisher: Owl Books Pub. Date: 15 October, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.97 (92 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent
Comment: Most readers who know and appreciate Paul McCartney will find this book a wonderfull source of personal reflexion and inspiration. I have reread it several times. By following the chronology of the songs written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon together then Paul McCartney alone, Barry Miles provides the raw material for many insights into one of the greatest creative geniuses of all time. Fortunately Paul McCartney is not perfect he is a person. He tries, makes mistakes, learns and improves. But he is not just any person.
There is even more to Paul McCartney than we generally recognize. The Beatles were not an accident but the result of many years of work, devotion, sacrifice and study. And all humanity owes them a tremendous debt of gratitude for what they have brought to our universal culture.
There is no doubt in my mind that Paul McCartney will get the recognition from history he has already received in his time. It is difficult to come away from this book without the realization that McCartney is a determined but gentle giant. He believes in people, in art, in communicating the more noble of mankinds sentiments and aspirations. He is a positive constructive and optimistic person and if he has made it to the toppermost of the poppermost it is through sheer hard work.
One of the things I liked the most were the descriptions of the creative processes. The searching, the willingness to experment. And through that search they created a new world for all of us by creating the first universal cultural phenomenon.
I also come away with the conclusion that contrary to myth Paul McCartney and John Lennon loved each other very much. But like brothers in family business for a while they got in over their heads. I'm glad the three of them have survived and prospered. I have no doubt in their later years John Lennon and Paul McCartney would have rediscovered their love for each other.
Although the book like Paul McCartney is less than perfect I recommend it because it helped me realize that he is one of the finest human beings to have walked on the face of the earth.
If you have any doubts read the book, listen to Hope of Deliverance, Come On People, view the Beatles Anthology Videos and decide for yourself. You will have learned something of lasting value to your heart.
Rating: 2
Summary: Many Years From Now: Not the last word on McCartney
Comment: If you can look past the curiously large number of factual errors (in both the text and the picture captions), ignore Miles' tendency to merely present McCartney's statements (as opposed to motivating his subject to impart something new to his audience), and completely overlook Miles' take on the avant-garde London scene, this book is moderately enjoyable.
If you're like me, and you can't do any of the above, then you are in for some seriously trying reading. Here's a sample: "'Yes It Is' was the remaining John Lennon song on Beatles for Sale...", "[Revolver] opens with 'Eleanor Rigby'...", "On With the Beatles, 'Little Child' was for Ringo", etc. I could list more examples, but I think you get the idea. This book is short on "attention to detail".
Ultimately, Miles fails in what should have been his brief: to present McCartney in a fresh, thoroughly researched, and myth-bashing context. Instead, we get more of McCartney trying to justify himself -- something that he has been doing since John Lennon's death in 1980.
Miles does nothing to challenge McCartney and, as a result, does even less to engage his readers. Sadly, this is not the definitive McCartney book.
- Paul, NYC
Rating: 2
Summary: Where is my review?
Comment: I wrote two reviews more than one week ago. They were never posted. Why?
 |
Title: Lennon : Definitive Biography, The by Ray Coleman ISBN: 0060986085 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 16 December, 1992 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
 |
Title: I, Me, Mine by George Harrison, Olivia Harrison ISBN: 0811837939 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
 |
Title: Lennon Remembers: The Full Rolling Stone Interviews from 1970 by John Lennon, Jann S. Wenner, Jann Wenner, Charles Reich ISBN: 1859846009 Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
 |
Title: Band on the Run: A History of Paul McCartney and Wings by Garry McGee ISBN: 0878333045 Publisher: Taylor Pub Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
 |
Title: Wingspan: Paul McCartney's Band on the Run by Paul McCartney ISBN: 0821227939 Publisher: Bulfinch Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Thank you for visiting www.AnyBook4Less.com and enjoy your savings!
Copyright� 2001-2021 Send your comments
