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The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present
Reader Score
92%
92% of readers
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A work of unparalleled candor and splendorous beauty, The Lyrics celebrates the creative life and the musical genius of Paul McCartney through 154 of his most meaningful songs.
From his early Liverpool days, through the historic decade of The Beatles, to Wings and his long solo career, The Lyrics pairs the definitive texts of 154 Paul McCartney songs with first-person commentaries on his life and music. Spanning two alphabetically arranged volumes, these commentaries reveal how the songs came to be and the people who inspired them: his devoted parents, Mary and Jim; his songwriting partner, John Lennon; his "Golden Earth Girl," Linda Eastman; his wife, Nancy McCartney; and even Queen Elizabeth, among many others. Here are the origins of "Let It Be," "Lovely Rita," "Yesterday," and "Mull of Kintyre," as well as McCartney's literary influences, including Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll, and Alan Durband, his high-school English teacher. With images from McCartney's personal archives--handwritten texts, paintings, and photographs, hundreds previously unseen--The Lyrics, spanning sixty-four years, becomes the definitive literary and visual record of one of the greatest songwriters of all time.
Book Details
- Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
- Publish Date: Nov 2nd, 2021
- Pages: 960
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 10.70in - 8.40in - 3.00in - 8.50lb
- EAN: 9781631492563
- Categories: • Lyrics• Music• Entertainment & Performing Arts
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Matt Haig is an author.
Paul McCartney’s The Lyrics is absolutely fantastic. So honest about his influences and rip-offs. Here, There and Everywhere is his favourite and mine too. A song that starts going one way and goes another and gently shifts like a season.
Official Paul McCartney account run by MPL | #PaulMcCartneyGotBack | #EyesOfTheStorm | Text me: +1(212)313-9547
Paul writing at home in Arizona, 1995. đź“· by Linda McCartney One of many photos from Paul's archive which features in 'The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present'. Pick up your copy here: https://t.co/Uq62h0PKnl #PaulMcCartneyTheLyrics https://t.co/R78Kszh3C0
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What people are saying
Matt Haig is an author.
Paul McCartney’s The Lyrics is absolutely fantastic. So honest about his influences and rip-offs. Here, There and Everywhere is his favourite and mine too. A song that starts going one way and goes another and gently shifts like a season.
Official Paul McCartney account run by MPL | #PaulMcCartneyGotBack | #EyesOfTheStorm | Text me: +1(212)313-9547
Paul writing at home in Arizona, 1995. đź“· by Linda McCartney One of many photos from Paul's archive which features in 'The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present'. Pick up your copy here: https://t.co/Uq62h0PKnl #PaulMcCartneyTheLyrics https://t.co/R78Kszh3C0