Neville
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Richard. Earl of Warwick.
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a male given name: an Old North French family name, taken from a placename.
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“I had to look inside myself, look at my world and find something that wasn’t the Beatles,” he says in “Paul McCartney: Man on the Run,” a new documentary directed by Morgan Neville.
“I was getting slagged off by everyone, and that does make you question if you’ve still got it,” the star says in the book, “Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run,” an oral history which expands on Neville’s documentary interviews.
Neville, who won an Oscar directing a documentary about backup singers, “20 Feet From Stardom,” hoped to understand how McCartney battled those odds.
“I know there were missteps along the way,” Neville said.
He frequently took a shoot-from-the-hip approach in the studio, reveling in “the freedom of not having to answer to anyone else,” as Neville put it: “Paul’s whole thing is the madcap idea is often the brilliant idea.”
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