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Paul McCartney: A Life

POWELLS | AMAZON
Coming from Simon & Schuster on November 3, 2009

"An excellent pop culture biography" (Kirkus Reviews) tracing McCartney's life from the Liverpool council estates to his current day life, way past 64.

Brian Wilson

POWELLS | AMAZON
Published by Rodale, 2006

The essential Beach Boys saga" (Van Dyke Parks) describing the strange, awful and magical life of Brian Wilson, including the inside story of the birth, death and latter-day revival of the mythic "Smile" album.

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