Since the age of twenty-one, Paul McCartney has lived one of the ultimate rock-n-roll lives played out on the most public of stages. Now, Paul's story is told with McCartney's consent and access to family members and close friends. It reveals the complex character behind the faƯcade and sheds new light on his childhood, blighted by his mother's death but redeemed by the father who introduced him to music. Paul's often troubled partnership with John Lennon, his personal trauma after the Beatles' breakup, and his subsequent struggle to get back to the top with Wings, which nearly got him murdered in Africa and brought him nine days in a Tokyo jail. His marriage to Linda, including their much-criticized musical collaboration, and a moving account of her death. Also Paul's latter-day marriage to Heather Mills and the mayhem it caused. Philip Norman is the author of John Lennon: the Life.