McCartney Remembers: An imagined interview with Sir Paul McCartney (Biographies)($16.26Value)

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This book is the interview Sir Paul never gives. The one in which he drops the niceties and finally tells us what he really thinks. Who was the true leader of The Beatles? Who broke up The Beatles? John, Yoko or maybe Paul himself? Or was it a Lennon/McCartney production? Here, he tells the whole truth–about drugs, girls, his mum, and still being working class. About love, ego, grief, and the irritating myth of being “the cute, nice one.” All about his semi-romantic relationship with John–his friend, rival, mirror, muse. The one he couldn’t live with...or without. The one the world still insists on choosing over him. Did they have an intimate relationship? In a way, this book is a long-belated response to “Lennon Remembers”, the infamous 1971 interview where John tore into Paul with all the fury of a man scorned. He called McCartney “controlling, lightweight, saccharine”. He said Paul's songs “lacked politics, meaning, and soul”. Paul, being Paul, didn’t bite back. He waited for the fire to die down. It never did. So now, more than 50 years later, we can imagine how Sir Paul might answer these charges, not with diplomacy, but with the honesty that five decades of reflection might allow. Here is McCartney–unplugged, unfiltered, and unleashed. The version of him we’ve always secretly hoped to hear. This is a work of fiction. While it features a real historical figure, Sir Paul McCartney, all dialogue and events are products of the author’s imagination. This book is extremely unauthorized by Sir Paul or his representatives.