Adrian Allan. Meadow Music Publishing
(author of Paul McCartney After the Beatles: A Musical Appreciation Series)
Notification of the availability of the title should appear or is expected sometime in late August 2025 at the following websites:
Meadow Music Publishing Link
A listing of other Adrian Allan books including several more McCartney books concerning his various tours and live appearances over the years:
Adrian Allan – Books and Publications Spotlight | Lulu
The author’s own description of his latest work about Paul McCartney:
“This book is a comprehensive assessment of McCartney’s 1993 New World Tour.
It was intended to be a glorious follow-up to the highly successful World Tour of 1989-90. However, there were some issues – the critics did not warm to the album Off the Ground. The tour ran into financial difficulties in the USA, which led to the resignation of McCartney’s manager, Richard Ogden. However, the tour was still a success for the fans – as proven by the many fan accounts within the book. This would be the last time that McCartney would work with this line-up, apart from Wix – his trusted keyboard player and musical director. McCartney then spent 1994 working on the Beatles Anthology project, putting touring behind him until after the turn of the millennium.”
Back cover of the book:
Adrian has graciously allowed us to post a few sample pages from his new book:
Adrian has written many wonderful books concerning Paul McCartney’s various live concert appearances and tours. His great knowledge of music, embellished with his teaching experience and expertise is clear and evident in all of his titles that I have read. If you are interested, please check out the links provided at the beginning of this post.
Will end this post with a question for the people who have experienced multi-McCartney live shows over the years. What was your personal favorite of the times you may have seen Paul perform live? Why was it your favorite show? My favorite show was a McCartney show in Boston where I was fortunate to be able to secure a front row seat. I was sitting two seats away from Heather Mills at the time.
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I’ve seen Paul in 1976, 1990, 1993, 2002, 2013, 2014, 2017, and 2019 and even though I had a 3rd/4th row center seat in ‘13, ‘14 & ‘17, 2002 much further back on the floor was my favorite concert (in Atlanta as where most of the others were) I hadn’t seen Paul in 9 years and he was about to turn 60, so I wasn’t sure what to expect. I was pleasantly surprised his voice was so good still and he sang a lot of my favorites. (This was before I joined his official forum where you always find out the setlist ahead of time!) I wish I had a better seat in 1976 (I was in the 1st section up on the side, stage right and didn’t have a great view) but being my first time seeing Paul at his prime was also fabulous. (never got to see the Beatles when I was 9 & 11 in Cleveland, unfortunately!)