What we learned about Paul McCartney from reading 'The McCartney Legacy'
The McCartney Legacy: Volume 1, 1969-73 by Allan Kozinn and Adrian Sinclair is the most important book that’s been published about Paul McCartney’s post-Beatles work in years. And if this first volume is anything to by, the full series should be the definitive look at McCartney’s solo career.
“Originally, circa 2014, Adrian proposed writing a detailed sessionography for McCartney's work, along the lines of Mark Lewisohn’s The Beatles Recording Sessions,” Kozinn, formerly music critic at the New York Times, explains. “And he asked me to write wrap-around biographical chapters, to explain what was going on in Paul's life at the time he made each album. As we did the research, it evolved into a full-fledged biography — partly because during an interview with [Wings drummer] Denny Seiwell, he offered to let us use his wife's diaries and his own session log, which helped us establish an airtight timeline, and partly because Mark Lewisohn persuaded us that what was really needed was a biography.”
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