PAUL MCCARTNEY THE LYRICS: 1956 TO THE PRESENT BOOK

PAGES:960
DIMENSIONS:8.5 x 3.1 x 10.8 Inches
FORMAT: Hardcover
AUTHOR(S): Paul McCartney

A work of unparalleled candor and splendorous beauty,The Lyricscelebrates 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 Lyricspairs 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 McCartneys literary influences, including Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll, and Alan Durband, his high-school English teacher.

With images from McCartneys personal archiveshandwritten texts, paintings, and photographs, hundreds previously unseenThe Lyrics,spanning sixty-four years, becomes the definitive literary and visual record of one of the greatest songwriters of all time.