Allan Kozinn was a music critic and culture reporter for the New
York Times from 1977 to 2014, where he wrote principally about
classical music. In that capacity, he interviewed Paul McCartney
several times, and saw him perform in a great variety of
configurations and venues - from singing with a hand mic at the
Lonestar Roadhouse, playing rock oldies at the Cavern, in
Liverpool, and performing in small halls like the Ed Sullivan
Theater and the Highline Ballroom, to full-scale concerts at
Madison Square Garden and Yankee Stadium. He currently contributes
regularly to the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post and other
publications. He has taught courses at the Juilliard School and New
York University (including a course on the Beatles at the latter),
and has written seven books, among them The Beatles - From The
Cavern To The Rooftop (1995), Got That Something! How The Beatles'
'I Want To Hold Your Hand' Changed Everything (2013), The New York
Times Essential Guide - Classical Music (2004).
The principal researcher for the McCARTNEY LEGACY series, Adrian
Sinclair studied film at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and
served a traineeship with ITV in Yorkshire, England, where he
learned his craft as a documentary film editor. He's worked for
almost every major broadcaster in the world, including the BBC,
ITV, Sky, Channel 4, National Geographic, Discovery and MTV. As
well as receiving recognition for his work from the Royal
Television Society in England, Adrian's 2010 documentary Stealing
Shakespeare (BBC/Smithsonian) was Emmy shortlisted for Best
Documentary.
"Volume 1 of The McCartney Legacy by Allan Kozinn and Adrian
Sinclair, arrives like a well-planned encore a year after the
publication of The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present by Paul McCartney.
Influenced by the methods of Mark Lewisohn, the exacting Beatles
historian currently at work on the second volume of a trilogy about
the group (the first was 900 pages, and that was an abridgment)...
in a way The McCartney Legacy out-Lewisohns Lewisohn, taking almost
700 pages to cover only five years." — The New York Times Book
Review
“This is the comprehensive, painstaking, dazzling and definitive
chronicle of rock’s strangest story: how Paul McCartney refused to
go quietly after the Beatles, and how he kept his genius moving
forward into another day. An amazing, inspiring trip.”
— Rob Sheffield, author of Dreaming the Beatles
“No maybe – I’m plain amazed at this real reveal of Paul McCartney
with his decades of artful creativity. Through these pages is the
accurate biography of a universal explorer.”
— Mark Lewisohn, world renowned Beatles expert
"Allan Kozinn and Adrian Sinclair's The McCartney Legacy:
Volume 1, 1969-73 is a triumph... their masterful study of the
artist's spectacular rise from the ashes of the Beatles,
Kozinn and Sinclair bring McCartney's comeback story vividly to
life." — Salon
"Anybody in the future who wants to know anything about the subject
will find the information here. Allan Kozinn and Adrian Sinclair, a
former New York Times music critic and a documentary
maker respectively, have entirely succeeded in the task they set
themselves — to find out and inform the reader of everything
there is to know about the life of Paul McCartney between 1969 and
1973." — The Times (UK)
"If the devil is in the detail the The McCartney
Legacy is positively satanic." — The Mail on Sunday Book
Review
"Setting the story between The Beatles’ demise and 1973 offers
Kozinn and Sinclair a compelling redemptive narrative arc...
Choosing to tell their story without foreknowledge, the
authors allow it to unfold as if it’s happening in real time and
without looking ahead to the outcome of any
particular actions. It’s an often breathless and riveting
read." — Reader's Digest
"One thing that really sets this book apart is Kozinn and
Sinclair’s unprecedented amount of detail on every single Paul
McCartney solo recording session: dates, places, songs worked
on, remembrances from those in the room, and lots of equipment
detail." — Houston Press Book Review
"A gold mine for avid fans." — Kirkus Reviews
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