McCartney Times

In 1981, British newspaperman and music journo Philip Norman published the Beatles book Shout! It was one of the first serious biographies of a rock band, required reading for any fan, and also told a truer (and then-shocking) version of the group’s history than The Beatles, the 1968 authorized work by Hunter Davies.However, Norman – by his own admission years later – had fallen under the post-assassination hero worship of Lennon. He posited that the group’s greatest achievements were Lennon’s doing and that he was the real talent. That Lennon was the adventurous, cutting-edge, deep intellectual who could write “Revolution” and “In My Life,” while Paul was the safe, cloying, eager-to-please author of throwback pap like “When I’m Sixty-Four” and “Yesterday.”

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