
Fab: The Intimate Life of Paul McCartney
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Narrated by:
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David Thorpe
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Howard Sounes
About this listen
He is the proud torchbearer of the Beatles, the greatest band in the history of popular music, and one of the most closely-studied artists in show business, yet secrets and surprises remain in the life of Sir Paul McCartney. The full story is told in Fab.
Howard Sounes, author of the acclaimed Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan, spent more than two years investigating every aspect of Sir Paul’s life and work, including interviewing over 200 people. The result is the richest, most detailed, and most comprehensive biography of McCartney yet written.
Unlike previous biographers, the author pays equal attention to the story of McCartney in the Beatles and the ongoing story of his post-Beatles career, creating an engrossing history that spans the long arc of this great artist’s life and work. Fab also includes the full, fascinating story of Sir Paul’s calamitous second marriage to Heather Mills. Sounes proves a judicious critic of the music, while also delivering a superb psychological portrait of the man behind some of the world’s most beloved songs.
Howard Sounes is known for writing detailed and revelatory biographies of a wide range of extraordinary personalities, including the murderers Fred and Rosemary West (Fred & Rose), the writer Charles Bukowski (Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life), and the musicians Bob Dylan (Down the Highway) and Lou Reed (Notes from the Velvet Underground). Each book is based on extensive original research. For more information, visit www.howardsounes.com
©2010 Howard Sounes (P)2014 Audible StudiosCritic reviews
"A McCartney biography that intrigues all the way through." ( The (London) Times)
narrators voice very easy to listen to.
highly recommend it
gripping! intriguing start to finish.
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fascinating biography
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If you're new to Paul McCartney, don't know much about him, this will be a very informative book. But if you've been following him for years, it's pretty much a rehash of everything else you've ever read. I didn't appreciate the author's critiques of McCartney's music. That's so subjective, and if he thought it made him seem unbiased, it didn't. I would rather have read an analysis of other professional criticism.Nothing new here
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I can't believe how much Paul has done in his career. The story is actually is actually quite epic in its length, but it managed to hold my interest over the 26 hours.
Quite Long But Good..
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As for the performance, generally speaking I'm not a fan of someone doing all the voices in a non-fictional tale; for instance, when a man lighten's his voice a little and puts on an American accent, I'm still a long way from believing they actually got Linda McCartney in to do her own parts. That all said, Thorpe does a pretty good Macca impression, and has a decent grasp on a range of British accents. The American ones were less convincing for me, and the non-native English languages seemed a bit...much. That all said, I started to find them all charming after a while. (This in contrast with Elton John's autobiography, which I found almost unlistenable because of Taron Egerton's wildly over the top performance, Or Louis Theroux's borderline offensive accents he adopted for his own book).
I tend to switch between audio and text when I can - a 26 hour audiobook is not something I often think I'll stick with. However, I made it all the way through this one, both performance and story complementing each other nicely. Would definitely read/listen to another by both Thorpe and Sounes.
Does what it says on the tin. Good performance too
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Good balance of facts
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New Bits Aren't Good and Good Bits Aren't New
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What made the experience of listening to Fab: The Intimate Life of Paul McCartney the most enjoyable?
I just got done listening to the audiobook. This book is long which required a devotion to getting it done. If you are a big Paul McCartney fan, you will find this book is worth the listen. It's very good and gives good insight to the man and his character, some good and some not so good. The narrator did a good job of telling the story and doing imitations of Paul McCartney speaking.I highly recommend this book.
True to the Title
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you think you know someone.
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Not a rehash!
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