Because the Beatles were the first internationally successful pop group, there was no pattern to the disparate members when they broke up in 1970. Fly away, Paul In detail, Paul McCartney’s response, which continues to this day, was stumbling, clumsy and ultimately entirely correct.
This is music biographer Lesley-Ann Jones’s account of McCartney’s decade with Wings and his rise to solo stardom. It’s strange, vaguely focused, but fascinating.
Jones writes about how the years following the Beatles’ breakup went through several, often awkward, phases. Linda; Mental breakdown; Rest; rejection of everything connected with the Beatles; Wing; the gradual acceptance of the Beatles; heather; senior gallant statesman; Nancy.
All this occurred against the backdrop of continued commercial (though not always artistic) success, including the Wings’ “Mull of Kintyre”, which topped all of the Beatles’ singles. But as McCartney discovers again and again, there are no ex-Beatles.
His immediate reaction to the Beatles’ death was to run away. He and Linda McCartney, with whom Paul founded Wings in 1971, two years after their wedding, swapped bustling London for isolated High Park, a farm on the Kintyre peninsula chosen by him and his former fiancée Jane Asher. It still belongs to Paul. There they returned to nature, like the Richard Briers and Felicity Kendall prototypes, although, as Jones notes here, they traveled by private jet.
Linda is a key figure in it. Fly away, Paul and Jones makes a strange assumption about her: Paul’s attraction to her after losing his mother at 14 had a lot to do with the way she raised their daughter Heather. Jones then explains how John Lennon almost simultaneously found his mother figure in Yoko Ono: “Everyone longed for a strong, fertile woman who could give him a family.”
But Jones has a special understanding of Linda. They knew each other and even visited Linda and Paul’s farm in Sussex, where the guitars were stacked randomly, the furniture was shabby, and a real Van Gogh hung on the wall. While enjoying herbal tea, they discussed how Jones had written Linda’s autobiography (with the beautiful title: Poppy, woman), only for Paul to reject the idea.
According to Jones, Linda invested herself and her limited musical abilities into Wings as the best way to protect their marriage (they spent every night of their relationship together until Paul was briefly jailed in Japan in 1980).
Jones has a score to settle. She rightfully forgives Paul for his shocked reaction of “It’s unpleasant, isn’t it?” on Lennon’s death, but she blames Ono not so much for the Beatles’ breakup as for preventing their reunion after Lennon’s 18-month relationship. family home. “It is likely,” Jones claims without any real evidence, “that John and Paul would resume their songwriting collaboration.”
The other Wings husbands are barely mentioned until Jones launches into a long and highly offensive tirade against “upstart Glamamazon” Jo Jo, the wife of Wings top player Denny Lane, who “only learned years later that Jo Jo was using him to ‘get Paul.’ do it.” getting.” The Lanes divorced after his infidelity. “Rarely sober…desperate for money,” Jones said. Jo Jo died at age 53, “but looked a lot older.”
On the other hand, Paul’s second wife, the very perky Heather Mills, gets a free pass. The same goes for his current wife Nancy Shevell, whose $200 million fortune escaped gold mining charges. Shevell became a vegetarian to please her new husband and ultimately keep him off cannabis.
Jones astutely describes how the shadow of McCartney’s original band always eclipsed the phenomenally successful Wings. And by highlighting Linda’s strength and determination, it sheds light on how she shaped the man who will always be a Beatle.
While the author’s insightful work undermines her point, it is nonetheless a refreshing change in the crowded world of Beatles biographies.
Source: I News
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