Richard D. Driver is Professor of History at McLennan Community College, USA.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: That Was Me: Paul McCartney’s Career and the Legacy of the Beatles1. The Beatles and Paul McCartney: A Historical and Cultural Legacy2. McCartney in the Wake of Let It Be: The Legacy of the Beatles3. McCartney on the Run with Wings: The Career of Paul McCartney4. Tragedy and Reunion for McCartney: “I Still Remember How It Was Before”5. Re-Meet the Beatles: McCartney and the Anthology6. McCartney and the Beatles Legacy: “The Same Me That Stands Here Now”7. McCartney at Egypt Station: Anniversaries, Experimentation, and Rejuvenation8. Made in Rockdown: McCartney III and Paul McCartney’s LegacyConclusion: McCartney Live: His Legacy in Concert, 2002-2022Appendix: Selected DiscographyBibliographyAbout the Author

A generous admirer of McCartney’s work, Driver surveys McCartney’s entire career to early 2023, commenting on songs, albums, concerts, and the public and critical reception of that work. Discussion of McCartney as part of the Beatles takes up almost a third of the book; the rest is devoted to the musician’s solo projects and his work with Wings and, to a lesser extent, other collaborators. Such an enduring and successful career calls for serious discussion. The legacy of the Beatles is inescapable, and Driver shows how McCartney, who initially tried to steer away from that legacy has come to embrace it and to reshape the Beatles’ narrative (the Anthology project being one example). Driver speaks glowingly even about less successful work. [McCartney’s] phenomenal talent as a writer and musician and his prodigious work ethic are obvious. Live performance and updated marketing are shown to be especially important in recent decades. Recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates; graduate students; general readers.