Authors: Peter Ames Carlin
After the Simon and Garfunkel breakup Paul made a new life, and a family, with Peggy.
Increasingly successful as a solo performer in the 1970s, Paul made fun of his brooding reputation on
Saturday Night Live
.
SNL
producer and new best friend Lorne Michaels (middle, with Paul on one side and George Harrison on the other) encouraged Paul to write and perform in television and movies.
By 1975 Paul and Artie were back to being friends. An attempt to collaborate again wouldn't last.
Paul's twelve-year relationship with Carrie Fisher was close, passionate, and ultimately devastating.
The sounds of Ladysmith Black Mambazo and South African pop music would revive Paul's spirits, his career, and his penchant for controversy.
The Capeman
premiere, January 1998. The smiles would fade when the reviews came in the morning.
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ALSO BY
PETER AMES CARLIN
Bruce
Paul McCartney: A Life
Catch a Wave: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson
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P
ETER
A
MES
C
ARLIN
is the author of several books, including the
New York Times
bestseller
Bruce
, a biography of Bruce Springsteen, published in 2012. Carlin has also been a freelance journalist, a senior writer at
People
, and a television columnist and feature writer at the
Oregonian
. A regular speaker on music, art, and popular culture, he lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife and three children. You can sign up for email updates
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Contents
1. Chapter One: Real and Assumed
4. Chapter Four: Nowhere to Go But Up!
5. Chapter Five: Two Teenagers
6. Chapter Six: The Freedom Criers
7. Chapter Seven: What Are You Searching for, Carlos Dominguez
8. Chapter Eight: The Voice of the Now
9. Chapter Nine: He Was My Brother
10. Chapter Ten: It Means Nothing to Us
11. Chapter Eleven: Some Dream of What I Might Be
13. Chapter Thirteen: So Long Already, Artie
14. Chapter Fourteen: I'd Rather Be
15. Chapter Fifteen: That's It, That's That Groove