Conversations with McCartney
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Publisher Description
In June 1989, Paul Du Noyer was contacted by Paul McCartney's office in London and asked to interview the star as they had met once before and enjoyed a good raport.
In the years that followed, Paul Du Noyer continued to meet, interview and work for Paul McCartney on a regular basis, producing magazine articles, tour programmes, album liner notes, press materials and website editorial. It's likely that Du Noyer has spent more hours in formal, recorded conversation with McCartney than any other writer.
Conversations with McCartney is the culmination of Du Noyer's long association with McCartney and his music. It draws from their interview sessions across 35 years, coupling McCartney's own, candid thoughts with his observations and analysis.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Whether you’re a lifelong Beatles fan or simply someone who’s fascinated by extraordinary life stories, you’ll savour this biography. Stitched together from several decades’ worth of interviews with the musical icon, Conversations with McCartney reads like a candid conversation between friends. Music journalist Paul Du Noyer started working with Paul McCartney back in 1989—over the years, the two men have bonded over their Liverpudlian roots, rehashed the myth of the Fab Four and generally gotten comfortable with each other. While much of the material is familiar, the unique presentation feels fresh and offers new insights into McCartney’s quirks, habits and endearingly formal speech patterns.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Du Noyer, founding editor of Mojo magazine, has interviewed Sir Paul McCartney many times since 1989, and in this sometimes cloying collection, readers get to hear the seemingly ageless former Beatle discuss a variety of topics: songwriting, religion and spirituality, his enduring relationship with Linda Eastman, his reflections on the breakup of the Beatles and life after the group. The interviews alternate between insightful and bland regardless of subject. On the making of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, for example, McCartney recalls that they were "fed up being The Beatles' " and asked, "Why don't we pretend that we're another band? Make up a name for it, make up alter egos, so we can make a whole album from the point of view of this other band?" On touring: "It's never the last tour as far as I'm concerned... I've always said I'll be wheeled on when I'm ninety." McCartney also points to the moment when the Beatles' music significantly changed, with the 1966 release of Revolver: "It started to be art... it changed from showbiz to art." Du Noyer's book offers a glimpse of one wide-eyed fan's conversations with his hero, and it will mostly appeal to McCartney fans who wish they were in Du Noyer's shoes.
