(Ebook) The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present (Vol. Two-Volume Set) by Paul McCartney, Paul Muldoon (editor & introduction) ISBN 9781324091134, 1324091134

(Ebook) The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present (Vol. Two-Volume Set) by Paul McCartney, Paul Muldoon (editor & introduction) ISBN 9781324091134, 1324091134

Foreword MORE TIMES THAN I CAN COUNT, I’VE BEEN ASKED TO write an autobiography, but the time has never been right. Usually I was raising a family or I was on tour, which has never been an ideal situation for long periods of concentration. But the one thing I’ve always managed to do, whether at home or on the road, is write new songs. Some people, when they get to a certain age, like to refer to a diary to recall day-to-day events from the past, but I have no such notebooks. What I do have is my songs – 100s of them – which serve much the same purpose. And these songs span my entire life, because even at the age of 14, when I acquired my first guitar in our little house in Liverpool, my natural instinct was to start writing songs. Since then I’ve never stopped...°°°A work of unparalleled candor & splendorous beauty, The Lyrics celebrates the creative life & the musical genius of Paul McCartney through his most meaningful songs. From his early Liverpool days, through the historic decade of The Beatles, to Wings & his long solo career, The Lyrics pairs the definitive texts of 154 Paul McCartney songs with 1st-person commentaries on his life & music. Spanning 2 alphabetically arranged volumes, these commentaries reveal how the songs came to be & the people who inspired them: his devoted parents, Mary & Jim; his songwriting partner, John Lennon; his “Golden Earth Girl,” Linda Eastman; his wife, Nancy McCartney; & even Queen Elizabeth. Here are the origins of “Let It Be,” “Lovely Rita,” “Yesterday,” & “Mull of Kintyre,” as well as McCartney’s literary influences, including Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll, & Alan Durband, his high-school English teacher. With images from McCartney’s personal archives—handwritten texts, paintings, & photographs, 100s previously unseen—The Lyrics, spanning 64 years, is the definitive literary & visual record of 1 of the greatest songwriters of all time.