The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present
By Paul McCartney, Paul Muldoon
43 Ratings
Paul McCartney's The Lyrics, which spans sixty-four years from his early years in Liverpool through Wings and his solo career, to The Beatles' momentous decade, transformed the way musicians write about music. This beautifully designed volume, dubbed an unprecedented "triumph" (Times UK), combines the definitive texts of over 160 songs with first-person accounts of McCartney's life, illuminating the various situations in which songs were written, the process by which they eventually came to be, and the extraordinary—yet frequently delightfully ordinary—people and places that served as inspiration.
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Paul McCartney's The Lyrics, which spans sixty-four years from his early years in Liverpool through Wings and his solo career, to The Beatles' momentous decade, transformed the way musicians write about music. This beautifully designed volume, dubbed an unprecedented "triumph" (Times UK), combines the definitive texts of over 160 songs with first-person accounts of McCartney's life, illuminating the various situations in which songs were written, the process by which they eventually came to be, and the extraordinary—yet frequently delightfully ordinary—people and places that served as inspiration.