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Allan Kozinn

@allankozinn.bsky.social
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Former NYT music critic, contributor to the WSJ, Washington Post and other, co-author The McCartney Legacy series.

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Allan Kozinn @allankozinn.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Happy 84th Birthday, Sir Paul McCartney. Here's an interview Adrian Sinclair and I did about "The McCartney Legacy" last week with David Ochoa, a podcaster in Monterey, Mexico: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q8x...
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Entrevista con @allankozinn192 y Adrian Sinclair, autores de los libros #TheMcCartneyLegacy
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
What kind of dumb shit take is this?!
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Recall these guys were so horrified at the prospect of a Puerto Rican talking about love and unity that the “family-friendly” Christian alternative was an aging sleazebag who gleefully sings about how it’s “mandatory” to statutorily rape underage girls.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
How many ways has Donald Trump given the finger said "f**k you" to America and Americans? Here are some of them noted in today's essay. www.americaamerica.news/p/donald-tru...
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Allan Kozinn @allankozinn.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Goldmine's picks from among biographies of the individual Fabs, with The McCartney Legacy topping the list. www.goldminemag.com/features/aft...
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After The Fabs: 10 essential post-Beatles books
This year marks the 55th anniversary of The Beatles’ breakup. Yet most books about the group focus on those fabled years from 1957 to 1970. We look beyond that.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Of course Alito and Thomas would rubber stamp the Trump Administration's lawlessness, racism and cruelty. Should've been a 9-0 Supreme Court decision to block the use of Alien Enemies Act but...is anyone surprised?
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Allan Kozinn @allankozinn.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Good news for our friends in Brazil (and Portugal), a Portuguese translation of our first book is coming October 31, 2025. You can pre-order now on Amazon. Paul McCartney: O Legado: Volume 1: 1969-73 a.co/d/4r8eB7M
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Paul McCartney: O Legado: Volume 1: 1969-73
Compre online Paul McCartney: O Legado: Volume 1: 1969-73, de Kozinn, Allan, Sinclair, Adrian, Guerra, Henrique, Moura, Gilvan na Amazon. Frete GRÁTIS em milhares de produtos com o Amazon Prime. Encontre diversos livros escritos por Kozinn, Allan, Sinclair, Adrian, Guerra, Henrique, Moura, Gilvan com ótimos preços.
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Ranking the Beatles @rankingthebeatles.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
#73 - Blackbird is out now! Allan Kozinn, author of The McCartney Legacy joins us to talk his "demonic" book, the human side of Paul, and so much more! Listen at rankingthebatles.com or anywhere you get podcasts! @mccartneylegacy.bsky.social @allankozinn.bsky.social
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 04/04/2025
“He couldn’t even find an hour out of his day to honor fallen soldiers in Lithuania."
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‘No words’: Trump ripped after ‘dishonorable’ snub of fallen U.S. soldiers
President Donald Trump created an uproar Thursday evening after reports emerged that he would skip the dignified transfer of the four U.S. soldiers who died in Lithuania for a golf event.NBC News repo...
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Remembering Podcast @rememberingpodcast.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Our newest episode with host Jeff Sammut: "Remembering" 1974-1980 Paul McCartney with “The McCartney Legacy" authors @allankozinn.bsky.social & Adrian Sinclair. Listen on rememberingpodcast.com & your favourite podcast platform. #PaulMcCartney #Remembering
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Allan Kozinn @allankozinn.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Great, perceptive review of "The McCartney Legacy Vol.2" from SDE. superdeluxeedition.com/reviews/the-...
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 28/02/2025
Craig Unger, an American journalist and writer who has written two books on Trump’s connections to Russia’s security services and the Russian mafia, says he is "absolutely certain" that the U.S. president is a Russian asset. The Kyiv Independent sat down with Unger to hear what makes him so certain.
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Is Donald Trump a Russian asset? This US author is 'completely certain' he is
Questions about U.S. President Donald Trump's possibly shady relationship with Russia and the country's security services have long swirled, even culminating in a special counsel investigation during ...
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NPR @npr.org · 28/02/2025
The People's Union USA, a grassroots group, is calling on Americans to join a national boycott by not shopping for 24 hours on Friday.
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A movement is calling for an 'economic blackout' on Friday. Here's what to know
The People's Union USA, a grassroots group, is calling on Americans to join a national boycott by not shopping for 24 hours on Friday.
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Allan Kozinn @allankozinn.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Excited about today’s Wings book press release? Why wait until November? Get the full Wings story now in The McCartney Legacy Volumes 1 & 2. Informed by 100s of hours of interviews with Paul McCartney, a trove of documents, plus original interviews with the key players. 📕📘
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Allan Kozinn @allankozinn.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Things We Said Today #431 – Interview with Seth Rogovoy youtu.be/MLG2htTxhho?... via @YouTube
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Things We Said Today #431 – Interview with Seth Rogovoy
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
I know Stathis. He was a colleague of mine at the University of Chicago. He is a pretty buttoned-down scholar. For him to tweet this out is… something.
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norcalbob @norcalbob.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
We literally could not be in this situation if it weren't for Moscow Mitch failing to support Trump's impeachments despite saying he was wrong on Ukraine and responsible for Jan 6. He can't Profiles in Courage his way out of that.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 13/02/2025
House Republicans have released their budget plan, and in order to pay for massive tax cuts for the wealthy, they are planning to slash funding for Medicaid and food stamps.
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House GOP Reveals Plan to Devastate Medicaid and Food Stamp Programs
House Republicans have a released a budget plan that would take a wrecking ball to the welfare programs used by millions of Americans.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 13/02/2025
Vice President JD Vance’s incendiary suggestions about executive branch noncompliance with judicial orders should, for now, be taken as a feint—but a feint in the direction of a steep constitutional cliff that leads to constitutional desolation.
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Trump vs. the Courts: Will He Drive Us Over the Constitutional Cliff?
It’s about to be a constitutional crisis, if it’s not already. And we’re only three weeks in. Buckle up.
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Allan Kozinn @allankozinn.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Things We Said Today #429 – Ringo Starr’s Nashville concerts & “Look Up” youtu.be/eUXGfBmJCLY
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Things We Said Today #429 – Ringo Starr’s Nashville concerts & “Look Up”
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 10/01/2025
They, we, must fight harder than ever. It’s just going to be maddening, watching a convicted felon president tell lies and corrupt our values. We have to believe that a day of reckoning will come. Without that belief, he wins. newrepublic.com/post/190086/...
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We’ve Never Been Here Before: The Zero-Accountability Presidency
The only institutions that will try to hold Trump accountable are powerless, while the only ones with the power to punish him will never do it.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10/01/2025
Elon Musk inserted himself into the debate over the role climate change plays in wildfires as at least five fires scorched the Los Angeles area. But scientists are clear: a warming planet has created the conditions.
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Elon Musk Downplays the Role of Climate in L.A. Fires, Scientists Say
Posting on the social media site he owns, Mr. Musk blamed the fires on government. Scientists said a warming planet set the conditions.
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Allan Kozinn @allankozinn.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Part two of our discussion of The McCartney Legacy on Things We Said Today youtu.be/McGlF-TqlYY
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Things We Said Today #428 – “The McCartney Legacy, Vol.2 1974-1980” Part 2
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Allan Kozinn @allankozinn.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Things We Said Today #427 – “The McCartney Legacy, Vol.2 1974-1980” Part 1 youtu.be/LXKnuQgaS0Q
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Things We Said Today #427 – “The McCartney Legacy, Vol.2 1974-1980” Part 1
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athens441.bsky.social @athens441.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Our review of @allankozinn.bsky.social and Adrian Sinclair's "McCartney Legacy: Volume 2: 1974-80" for Tracking Angle: trackingangle.com/features/leg...
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Allan Kozinn @allankozinn.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
A chat with Goldmine about The McCartney Legacy Vol.2: www.goldminemag.com/features/aut... #mccartneylegacy #mccartney #wings #beatles
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Authors of ‘The McCartney Legacy’ books on reluctant interviewees, Wings turnover, more
'The McCartney Legacy Volume 2: 1974-80' maintains the high standard of 'Volume 1,' so we spoke to the authors about the work behind both volumes.
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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
@danielsgoldman.dg4ny.co: "Right now, we have President Elon Musk. And Donald Trump—maybe he's vice president. I guess vice presidents don't do much, so that makes sense. He might be the chief of staff. I don't know what you call him, but he is not calling the shots."
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 20/12/2024
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Allan Kozinn @allankozinn.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
A great review of McCartney Legacy Volume 2 by Eoghan Lyng. eoghanlyng.substack.com/p/mccartney-... #mccartneylegacy #paulmccartney #beatles
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McCartney Legacy Volume 2
It's hard to sympathise with a man who fronted two bands, nabbed two Oscar nominations and performed a triumphant tour of America before he was 35, but the Paul McCartney that emerges from McCartney L...
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Walter MOONdale @dabenner.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
As a settlement of civil litigation it's absurd. As a down payment regulatory favors it's cheap. Expect more frivolous suits as a way to get bribes thru settlements.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
This was an utterly meritless lawsuit. ABC suits are cowards who embarrassed their news division. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/14/u...
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ABC to Pay $15 Million to Settle a Defamation Suit Brought by Trump
The outcome of the lawsuit marks an unusual victory for President-elect Donald J. Trump in his ongoing legal campaign against national news organizations.
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Allan Kozinn @allankozinn.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
The Washington Post review of The McCartney Legacy Vol.2 1974-1980: www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/1...
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Review | Do we need another book about Paul McCartney? Yes.
“The McCartney Legacy, Volume 2,” by Allan Kozinn and Adrian Sinclair is a treasure trove of detail about McCartney’s music-making after the Beatles.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Truly remarkable how Republicans manage to be on the wrong side of everything, their steadfastness in corruption and incompetence. There's an obvious answer to, "should the government make it easy to file taxes, or should people be forced to use private companies to do it?" And yet.
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Allan Kozinn @allankozinn.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
A wonderful (if blush-inducing) overview from today's edition of The Beatles Bookstore -- Buzz's Beatles Book/Print Blog www.beatlesbookstore.com/the-legacy-o...
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THE LEGACY OF PAUL McCARTNEY BY ALLAN KOZINN AND ADRIAN SINCLAIR-A SUPERB BOOK SERIES!!! - The Beatles Bookstore
What an impressive series of books this is!!! Truly, there are not enough superlatives or adjectives in the English language to adequately capture the admiration for the work of authors Allan Kozinn a...
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Amy McGrath @smallmegapixel.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
In @mccartneylegacy.bsky.social Volume 2 | 1974–80, @allankozinn.bsky.social and #AdrianSinclair brilliantly draw upon decades of information to flesh out the picture of an artist pinned at the crossroads of success and future uncertainty.
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Book Review – 'The McCartney Legacy: Volume 2 | 1974–80
Second in the series from McCartney historians Allan Kozinn & Adrian Sinclair
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Allan Kozinn @allankozinn.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Andrew Dixon's preliminary look at The McCartney Legacy Vol. 2. Gotta love his excitement about it - and he's only read the first 38 pages! www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5Ix...
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"McCartney Legacy Volume 2" is here!
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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Sickening hypocrisy.
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Harold Lepidus @hlepidus.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
‘It’s like they were smoking something potent’: the ‘bizarre’ Paul McCartney alien musical that never was Former Beatle’s treatment for the film – and an expanded version by sci-fi writer Isaac Asimov – unearthed in the US www.theguardian.com/music/2024/d.... 🍏
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‘It’s like they were smoking something potent’: the ‘bizarre’ Paul McCartney alien musical that never was
Former Beatle’s treatment for the film – and an expanded version by sci-fi writer Isaac Asimov – unearthed in the US
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Allan Kozinn @allankozinn.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
An excerpt from The McCartney Legacy Vol.2 1974-1980, courtesy of The Times (London). www.thetimes.com/culture/musi...
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How Paul McCartney made Mull of Kintyre: whisky, pipers and cowpats
The singer-songwriter wanted Wings’ sentimental Christmas single to be ‘the biggest seller of all time’
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
People who think professional wrestling is real think that the allegations of covering up sexual assault against Linda McMahon and her husband Vince are fake. Make it make sense.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
To review: ATTORNEY GENERAL: Allegedly paid for sex with multiple women and a 17-year-old girl SECRETARY OF DEFENSE: Allegedly raped a woman at a conference in 2017 SECRETARY OF HHS: Allegedly sexually assaulted his kids’ baby sitter
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David Klion @davidklion.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Gaetz withdrawal is encouraging, not just because we won't have AG Gaetz but because it's taken Trump about two weeks to squander his supposedly invincible mandate and remind everyone of his staggering incompetence and dysfunction—which, per last time, are the main checks on his power.
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Allan Kozinn @allankozinn.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Won’t any of them grow a spine? Or a second brain cell?
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Nick Knudsen @nickknudsenus.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Oh. Apparently the McMahon’s, as Chief Executives of WWE, purposefully turned a blind eye to an employee preying on and abusing young boys. But I’m sure she’ll have our kids’ best interests at heart as the Secretary of Education.
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Michelangelo Signorile @msignorile.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
It's highly doubtful Gaetz goes back to Congress just because he was re-elected, since committee will then release report. If he was appointed to Senate there would be ethics probe there. And Fox has had to pay out too much $$ to assault victims to bring on alleged pedophile.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 21/11/2024
the U.S. press does not require that Republicans take real ownership of unpopular and harmful policy I know a lot of folks at major outlets are conditioned to BELIEVE they do, but they really don't, and never have
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A Trump Judge Just Nixed Overtime Pay for Millions—and Media Yawned
Remember the right-wing frenzy over “Rich Men North of Richmond”? Well, this ruling exposes Trump-MAGA hypocrisy on the working class—and reveals a big media failure.
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Adam Mockler @adammockler.com · 21/11/2024
Stay vigilant while Trump selects his new AG. Starting with an outrageous ask as the anchor is Trump 101 . Obviously it’s a relief that the alleged sex trafficker won’t get the role, but trust me, the next pick will be just as unqualified and spiteful.
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Allan Kozinn @allankozinn.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Things We Said Today - A Beatles Video Podcast, Episode 423 is up. We have a chat with Elliot Mintz about his enlightening new book, "We All Shine On - John, Yoko & Me." youtu.be/muCrm--MRfc
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Things We Said Today #423 – Elliot Mintz and “We All Shine On”
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Allan Kozinn @allankozinn.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
The first review of The McCartney Legacy Vol. 2 is in: www.publishersweekly.com/9780063000759
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The McCartney Legacy, Vol. 2: 1974–80 by Allan Kozinn, Adrian Sinclair
Music critics Kozinn and Sinclair follow up The McCartney Legacy, Vol. 1 with another kaleidoscopic account of the musician’s po...
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John86 @john86l.bsky.social · 24/09/2024
Guys The McCartney Legacy Volume 2 is going to be out in time for Christmas.
Cover for The McCartney Legacy Volume 2: 1974-1980 by Allan Kozinn and Adrian Sinclair. It has been given a UK release date of December 10th.
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