Off the Ground

""Moores contaminates you with obsession. He is a quite brilliant fascinator, and whatever he has been obsessed with will soon obsess you too. I had barely listened to McCartney's work of the '90s until I picked this book up--now I can't leave it alone.""--Robin Ince, comedian, writer and broadcaster ""Moores is one of my very favourite writers plying this tawdry trade today. Every time he publishes something--a review, a column, a four-word tweet--I race to read it. This whole book on Paul McCartney's 1990s (though, of course, it is about so much more) is a treat beyond treats. Very funny, clever, intrepid, audacious and many more adjectives besides. A joy to read, as his work always is.""--Jude Rogers, journalist, broadcaster and author of ""The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives"" ""Moores argues with wit and passion that the sheer breadth of [McCartney's] work suggests an artist re-energised and reframing the narrative around his career. . . . As The McCartney Legacy has raised the bar for solo years-specific reference books, Off the Ground sets a new standard in criticism of the great man's post-Beatles career, a must read for serious Beatles fans.""-- ""Record Collector"" ""[Off the Ground] assesses a decade when McCartney toured extensively, becoming 'cool again' as the Britpop movement took hold.""-- ""Yorkshire Post"" ""Moores has the keys to understanding McCartney--he conveys with ease his music's joy, spontaneity, willingness to mess about and that special melodic knack that no one else in the world has access to. Off the Ground is a wonderful, engrossing book, full of entertaining digressions, that carefully puts McCartney's '90s work in context with Britpop (and the Dadrock that followed) as well as his own legacy. The best, and most enjoyable, book on McCartney I've ever read.""--Bob Stanley, musician, journalist and author of ""Let's Do It: The Birth of Pop"" and ""Bee Gees: Children of the World""