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Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now (平装)
by Barry Miles
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Biography |
| Market price: ¥ 208.00
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| MSL Pointer Review:
A good read, full of details, clarifications, and memories of the Beatles, their music and realationships, from McCartney himself. |
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Robert Workman (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-12 00:00>
This was no doubt Paul's attempt to equal the great Lennon biography by Ray Coleman, but it falls far short of that impressive tome. Coleman was a rock journalist who was close enough to his subject to know him but objective enough to be honest about him. The fact that co-author Barry Miles is a close personal friend of the subject, and not a journalist, makes objectivity a bit sketchy. Miles shifts from first person witness to omniscient biographer and it's hard telling sometimes which one he is. Also, easily verifiable facts are grossly misstated. In one instance he calls TV writer Larry Gelbart, "Larry Geldorf". Surely an editor should have caught this. In another instance, Macca himself cites a Lennon quote (from a Mike Douglas show, I believe) from 1975 but attributes it to much earlier. All in all, it's a sloppy piece of journalism and editing. It does nothing to raise or secure Paul's reputation. It comes off, as so many of Paul's attempts to "set the record straight" do, as a petulent attempt at revisionism. Perhaps if Paul had been more open and less coy from the beginning he wouldn't need to do this. |
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