McCartney Times

When Philip Norman published his first book on the Beatles in 1981, his line was that John Lennon had been “three quarters” of the band, dismissing Sir Paul McCartney as the “great manipulator”. McCartney consoled himself by swapping the vowels in Shout!, the title of Norman’s book, for something earthier.At the time, Norman argued that he wasn’t really anti-Paul. He had just been trying “to show the real human being behind the charming, smiley facade”. Now, 35 years later, he discloses that his youthful obsession with McCartney had clouded his judgment in Shout! “All those years I’d spent wishing to be him had left me feeling in some obscure way that I needed to get my own back.”

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