The Lyrics

Paul McCartney , Paul Muldoon 지음

Penguin Books Ltd 2021년 11월 02일 출간

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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 year

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These two beautifully produced hardbacks give a lot of bang for your buck. Macca recalls the inspiration behind 154 of his songs and the collaborative process of writing them, his stories taking in Lennon, Linda and fame, and there's a trove of photographs and memorabilia from his personal archive. He says the time has never been right to write a full memoir, but this collection is brimming with insights into the man and the music.

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저자(글) Paul McCartney

폴 매카트니는 록그룹 비틀즈의 일원으로 활동하면서 세상을 새롭게 바꿨다. 여기서 멈추지 않고 솔로 아티스트로서 그룹 윙, 그리고 전 세계 수많은 예술가들과 협업하며 예술의 경계를 계속 확장시켰다. 폴 매카트니는 18개의 그래미상을 수상했고 1997년에는 평생 음악에 헌신한 공로로 영국 여왕으로부터 기사 작위를 받았다. 더불어 동물 권리와 환경 문제를 포함하여 여러 사회적 이슈들에 열성적으로 참여하고 있기도 하다. 그리고 무엇보다 손주들에게 아주 자랑스러운 할아버지다.

저자(글) Paul Muldoon