"I wasn't totally wrong in saying that he could be, as we say in this country, a bit of a miserable git and that he was a ...

Beatles biographer, Philip Norman, claims George Harrison the only Beatle who could tell the group’s story During a 1987 interview, Norman explained George’s early life.

George Harrison didn’t enjoy how Beatles biographer, Philip Norman, portrayed him and his bandmates in his 1981 book, Shout!: The True Story of The Beatles. He said the biography was a complete ...

Now comes Philip Norman. Twenty-eight years ago he produced Shout!, an exuberant and revelatory account of the Beatles' rise and fall. His new book, weighing in at 851 pages, should be his master ...

Oct. 16—Philip Norman's "Mick Jagger" is far less gossipy and much less salacious than Christopher Anderson's "Mick: The Wild Life and Mad Genius of Jagger." Norman brings to "Mick Jagger" the ...

Throughout his long career in music journalism, Philip Norman has chronicled in book form the lives of rock A-listers like The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton and Elton John.

BIOGRAPHY John Lennon By Philip Norman. Ecco, 851 pp., $34.95. At the end of "John Lennon: The Life," his simultaneously fascinating and troubling biography of the late Beatle, Philip Norman ...

As biographer Philip Norman writes in Paul McCartney: The Life, McCartney is more than just the "cute Beatle" thumping away on a left-handed bass or the elder statesman of rock who continues to ...

According to Philip Norman's new biography, John Lennon: The Life, the teenage Lennon occasionally napped with his mother, Julia, and the accidental touch of her breast one time triggered longings ...

Norman has obviously revised his ’80s opinion considerably. Also, one presumes, sincerely – that is, not just to appease the McCartneyites who are his likeliest readers.