Well-known Beatles historian publishes new book “McCartney Legacy Volume 2” » LIVING LIFE FEARLESS

Following his comprehensive work on the life and work of Paul McCartney from 2022 entitled The McCartney Legacy, Volume 1The well-known Beatles author Allan Kozinn has a Volume 2which will be published on December 10, 2024, via Dey Street Books. The author Allan Kozinn was a music critic and cultural reporter for The New York Times from 1977 to 2014, where he was practically the Just“Beatles desk.

His collaborator is once again researcher Adrian Sinclair and this time the duo have examined McCartney’s post-Beatles work and his life from 1974 to 1980. The new title is available to pre-order in the US here and in the UK here.

From the publisher’s announcement: By 1974, the Beatles were a distant memory, and Paul McCartney had already released a solo album and formed a new band, Wings. By the end of the decade, Wings were the highest-selling band of the 1970s. (Ed., Unlikely.) The McCartney Legacy, Volume 2 begins in 1974 at the height of Wings’ popularity and the beginning of McCartney’s next chapter.

Kozinn and Sinclair follow on directly from their predecessor, which covered the years 1969 to 1973, and have adopted the same comprehensive research ethos in Volume 2 This made the first volume a critical success and followed McCartney as a man, establishing himself as a musician beyond Beatlemania and his legacy in the 20th century up to the present day. Volume 1 is available here.

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