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Off the Ground

Paul McCartney in the 1990s

A sympathetic but clear-eyed exploration of Paul McCartney’s work in the 1990s, arguably his most important since the rise of the Beatles.
 
Paul McCartney’s 1990s was an era like no other, perhaps even the most significant decade of his entire career after the 1960s. Following a shakier 1980s, the decade would see McCartney reemerge with greater energy, momentum, and self-belief. JR Moores’s sympathetic but not uncritical new book explores McCartney’s ’90s, with its impressive studio and live albums, colossal tours, unexpected side-projects and imaginative collaborations, forays into classical composition, some new Beatles numbers, and a whole lot more besides. Moores reveals how McCartney’s reputation began to be perceived more generously by the public, and he argues that Macca’s output and activities in the ’90s would uncover more about the person behind them than in any other decade.

320 pages | 23 halftones | 6.14 x 9.21 | © 2024

Biography and Letters

Music: General Music


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Table of Contents

Introduction: Looking For Changes
1. The Backstory: McCartney Before The 1990s
2. Off The Ground And Back On The Road
3. Britpop And Beyond
4. The Beatles Anthology
5. Flaming Pie
6. Behind Every Great Man
7. The Experimental Ones
8. Run, McCartney, Run!
References
Index

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