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The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present Description
The
Lyrics:
1956
to
the
Present
The
Sunday
Times
bestseller
and
Waterstones
Book
of
the
Year,
now
in
paperback
'Paul
McCartney
says
this
is
as
close
as
he
will
get
to
an
autobiography
and
no
wonder
-
his
life
is
in
every
line
of
these
songs
...
pure
joy'
Sunday
Times,
Book
of
the
Year
With
seven
songs
added
for
this
edition:
'Bluebird,'
'Day
Tripper,'
'English
Tea,'
'Every
Night,'
'Hello,
Goodbye,'
'Magical
Mystery
Tour'
and
'Step
Inside
Love'
Spanning
seven
decades
-
from
his
early
Liverpool
days,
through
the
historic
decade
of
The
Beatles,
to
Wings
and
his
long
solo
career
-
Paul
McCartney's
The
Lyrics
has
transformed
the
way
artists
write
about
music,
pairing
the
definitive
texts
of
161
songs
with
intimate,
autobiographical
commentaries
on
McCartney's
life
and
music.
Arranged
alphabetically,
these
commentaries
reveal
the
diverse
circumstances
in
which
the
songs
were
written,
how
they
ultimately
came
to
be,
and
the
remarkable
-
often
ordinary
-
people
and
places
that
inspired
them.
Dozens
of
vignettes
re-create
the
working-class
Liverpool
of
McCartney's
youth,
where
delivery
boys
ran
parcels
on
docks,
as
in
'On
My
Way
to
Work,'
and
elderly
ladies
in
the
neighbourhood
inspired
'Eleanor
Rigby.'
McCartney
also
introduces
us
to
his
early
literary
influences,
among
them
Shakespeare,
Lewis
Carroll
and
Allen
Ginsberg,
as
well
as
Alan
Durband,
his
beloved
English
teacher,
and
his
mother,
Mary,
who
passed
away
when
he
was
just
fourteen
-
and
whose
memory
has
infused
his
work
ever
since.
Yet
the
two
most
powerful
presences
in
The
Lyrics
after
the
author
himself
are
his
songwriting
partner,
John
Lennon,
and
his
'Golden
Earth
Girl,'
Linda
Eastman
McCartney.
Here
McCartney
describes
how
he
met
John
at
a
church
fête
in
1957;
their
adventures
with
George
Harrison
and
Ringo
Starr
in
the
early
1960s;
and
how,
at
the
end
of
the
decade,
they,
and
The
Beatles,
broke
up.
Thus
began
a
second
act
of
now
more
than
fifty
years,
with
Linda
and
family
life
as
driving
forces
-
inspiring
songs
from
'Maybe
I'm
Amazed,'
written
just
after
the
breakup
of
The
Beatles,
to
the
2012
ballad
'My
Valentine,'
addressed
to
McCartney's
wife
and
partner,
Nancy
Shevell
McCartney.
Edited
and
introduced
by
Pulitzer
Prize-winning
poet
Paul
Muldoon,
and
enhanced
by
more
than
a
hundred
images
from
McCartney's
personal
archives
-
including
handwritten
texts,
mementos,
and
photographs
-
and
seven
new
song
commentaries,
The
Lyrics
is
a
book
for
the
ages,
and
the
definitive
literary
and
visual
record
of
one
of
the
greatest
songwriters
of
all
time.
Brand:
Penguin
Manufacturer:
Penguin
Author:
McCartney,
Paul
Number
Of
Pages:
624
Publication
Date:
7
November
2023
Release
Date:
7
November
2023
Item
dimensions:
23H
x
15L
x
3.5W
cm
Details
| OPC | PDS22YR |
|---|---|
| Brand | Penguin |
| Codes | 1802064222 (ISBN-10) |
| 9781802064223 (ISBN) |
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