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 songs by Paul McCartney 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 II, amongst 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 secondary school English teacher. With images from McCartney's personal archives-handwritten texts, paintings and photographs, hundreds previously unseen-The Lyrics, spanning sixty-four years, is the definitive literary and visual record of one of the greatest songwriters of all time.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
ISBN-13
9781631492563
eBay Product ID (ePID)
21049061993
Product Key Features
Book Title
The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present
Author
Paul Mccartney
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Music
Publication Year
2021
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
960 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
274mm
Item Width
216mm
Item Weight
3914g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Paul Mccartney
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Editor
Paul Muldoon
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