“Paul”, or the resurrection of McCartney after the Beatles in comics: News

“I was half-god of music, today I am unemployed.” With “Paul”. Meanwhile, the designer Hervé Bourhis paints the intimate and touching portrait of Paul McCartney at the dawn of the 1970s, between painful dislocation of the Beatles and Renaissance with the Wings.

On September 20. For example, 1969, the four boys in Liverpool gathered at the headquarters of their London label Apple Records to sign new contracts when John Lennon announced to his partners that he wants to “divorce”. In addition,

The news – after the first hints of departure from Georges Harrison. However, Ringo Starr – whistles the end, not yet official, of the Beatles undermined by ego quarrels and musical conflicts.

Paul McCartney. Furthermore, who “has always been a group guy and who led the boat since the album +Sergeant Pepper’s “paul”, resurrection mccartney after beatles +”, has “seen nothing coming”, reports Hervé Bourhis, in love since his 14 years of the Fab Four – a “obsession” recently nourished by the series “Get Back” by Peter Jackson and the documentary “Beatles ’64” produced by Martin Scorse.

While the album Abbey Road comes out. For example, the group is at the top of his glory, Paul McCartney is at the bottom of the hole.

“I am a 27 -year -old has -been. Nevertheless, ” laments the double drawing of Macca (her nickname) in comics, narrated in the first person, as close as possible to the singer’s psyche -songwriter who sinks into a deep depression and fogs into whiskey from the alarm.

For Hervé Bourhis. Moreover, his salvation will come from his wife Linda – “extremely mistreated” by the press and the fans – when she takes her with their children on “paul”, resurrection mccartney after beatles their Scottish farm.

Paul retapes his rustic house there. takes care of his sheep, transfigured into “dad of +the small house in the meadow +”, shaggy beard, turned skin coat and rubber boots on the feet.

– Leave to zero –

The work. meticulously documented, a mixture of realistic and cartoonian drawing in a happy graphic explosion, dominated by fluorescent, purple and psychedelic blue rose.

It is in Scotland that McCartney will improvise a refrain on his “Lovely Linda”. which will give him the strength to relaunch his career with his wife. After a holiday in the Caribbean, on the island of Antigua, he slowly recovers to compose.

Hervé Bourhis offers here a rehabilitation of the Paul McCartney of the time. “visionary” but who passed to fans for the “bad story”.

In 1970. he announced the official “paul”, resurrection mccartney after beatles end of the Beatles by released a solo album, before bringing trial to his childhood friends to dissolve the group and release him from the controversial management of their producer Allen Klein – later attacked for scam by the other members of the Beatles.

With Linda. the bass player sporting “mule cut and flower vests” creates wings by recruiting New York musicians via anonymous classifieds. The new group goes on the roads, playing for three sous in the ball rooms of British universities.

“He will go back to zero, courageously, in a rather humble way. For the first tour of the wings. he praises a van, puts the kids, the dogs and the instruments in it, and then hop, it’s gone. They improvise everything. It’s a really cool story. ” said the author without hiding the faults of McCartney, like his hand -consumption of control “paul”, resurrection mccartney after beatles and his consumption of drugs.

It was with the album “Band on the Run” (1973) recorded in Nigeria. the occasion for a memorable meeting with the inventor of the Afrobeat Fela Kuti, that he definitively signs his resurrection. He triumphs over criticism and sales are “stratospheric”. Even John Lennon, after the harsh spikes of recent years, will go from his compliment on this “big album”.

Posted on June 27 at 10:47 p.m. AFP

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