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Man on the Run
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Man on the Run—Paul McCartney in the 1970s
After the Beatles, McCartney went underground — and the truth is stranger, wilder and more compelling than the legend.
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About the Ebook
The most famous living rock musician on the planet, Paul McCartney is now regarded as a slightly cosy figure, an (inter)national treasure. Back in the 1970s, however, McCartney cut a very different figure. He was, literally, a man on the run. Desperately trying to escape the shadow of the Beatles, he became an outlaw hippy millionaire, hiding out on his Scottish farmhouse in Kintyre before travelling the world with makeshift bands and barefoot children. It was a time of numerous drug busts and brilliant, banned and occasionally baffling records. For McCartney, it was an edgy, liberating and sometimes frightening period of his life that has largely been forgotten. Man on the Run paints an illuminating picture: from McCartney's nervous breakdown following the Beatles' split through his apparent victimisation by the authorities to the rude awakening of his imprisonment for marijuana possession in Japan in 1980 and the shocking wake-up call of John Lennon's murder. Ultimately, it poses the question: if you were one quarter of the Beatles, could you really outrun your past?Why You'll Love This Ebook
- The definitive account of McCartney's turbulent, forgotten decade
- From his Scottish farmhouse hideout to imprisonment in Japan and the death of John Lennon
- Written by acclaimed music journalist Tom Doyle, who has profiled McCartney for Q
- Read another celebrated title from Polygon - an imprint of Birlinn Ltd
Reviews
'An excellent and insightful biography... he manages to get to the heart of McCartney's dilemma... a fascinating read.' Scots Whay Hae
'Starting with the painful disintegration of the Beatles, Doyle examines the next decade in McCartney's unimaginably odd existence.' The Guardian
About the Author
Tom Doyle is an acclaimed music journalist, author and long-standing contributing editor to Q, whose work has also appeared in Mojo, the Guardian, Marie Claire, Elle, The Times and Sound on Sound. Over the years he has been responsible for key magazine-cover profiles of Paul McCartney, Keith Richards, Kate Bush, Elton John, R.E.M. and U2, amongst many others.Publication Details
Publisher: Polygon (an imprint of Birlinn Ltd)
Publication Date: 06 September 2013
Print Length: 304 pages (Ebook edition)
ISBN (Ebook): 9780857906267
Format: Ebook
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