The Unknown Paul McCartney

Ian Peel

• Publisher: Titan Books
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN:
  9781781162750
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Music

Paul McCartney has often initiated and participated in projects that have taken him a long way from the kind of music associated with The Beatles, Wings and his work as a solo artist. These projects include the psychedelic tape loop experiments of the 1960s, the 'Percy Thrillington' diversion in the 1970s and more recent albums recorded, as 'The Fireman' — as well as even more obscure activity, much of which this book reveals in depth for the first time. Ian Peel has interviewed many of McCartney's intimate musical associates from this less familiar side of his career. These include Youth, Super Furry Animals, Nitin Sawhney, playwright Arnold Wesker and, perhaps most surprisingly of all, Yoko Ono. What emerges is a unique insight into an apparently over-familiar public figure—Paul McCartney, experimental musician.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword by David Toop
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Brass Bands, Vinyl and Pigeonholes
• 2. Influences, Memories and Beatles
• 3. Carnival of Light at the Fantasy-Loon/Blowout/Drag Ball
• 4. From Vegetables to Llysisu (and Back)
• 5. Music Made with Moogs and Glasses
• 6. "An Abundance of Melody" as Easy Listening Fights Back
• 7. From Sheep Masks to Pseudonyms (and Baa)
• 8. Music Made with Radios and Gizmotrons
• 9. The Chapter Nine Remix
• 10. It's a Long Way Off the Frog Chorus...
• 11. In the Studio with Yoko Ono
• 12. On Stage with Allen Ginsberg
• 13. Crossing the Bridge to Palo Verde
• 14. From Steel Towers to Siegen (and Balaclavas)
• 15. Reel Gone Dub Mede In Manifest In the Vortex of the Eternal Now
• 16. Music Made for Families and Neuroses
• Epilogue - A Blind Tasting
• Appendix 1 - Listening
• Appendix 2 - Further Listening
• Appendix 3 - Selected Articles and Websites
• Appendix 4 - Bibliography
• Index