A solid biography of McCartney that is perhaps lacking sufficient supporting materials to make it truly worthwhile.

It does well in contrasting the light and shade in McCartney's life, and Carlin doesn't hold back in circumstances where Macca's been a bit prattish.

The book does concentrate on McCartney's life. His music is covered only with the broadest of brushes, and the book rather assumes you come to it with a familiarity of its' subject's songs (which is entirely reasonable assumption, I'd suggest)