McCartney Times

Paul McCartney gave his “tacit approval” to a man he always hated to write his biography. Philip Norman wrote the essential and brilliant Beatles biography, Shout! (1981), which portrays McCartney – stupidly and unfairly so – as the cute, musically conservative Beatle in opposition to John Lennon’s artistic and revolutionary Beatle. To this day McCartney refers to Shout! as Shite!Shout! was published just weeks after Lennon was murdered, in New York, so McCartney couldn’t retaliate. Instead he waited until 1997, when he got an old friend from the 1960s countercultural movement, Barry Miles, to write his biography, Man Years from Now.

Source: Paul McCartney: The Biography review – the gospel according to Macca