Zweibändiges Buch in Box PAUL McCARTNEY – THE LYRICS – 1956 TO THE PRESENT

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Dienstag 2. November 2021: Zweibändiges Buch in Box

PAUL McCARTNEY – THE LYRICS – 1956 TO THE PRESENT

Abbildungen: Paul McCartney / Zusammenstellung und Text (Vorwort): Paul Muldon / Herausgeber: Allen Lane / Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd, Großbritannien / ISBN-10: 0241519330, ISBN-13: 978-024151933-2.

Zwei gebundene Bücher THE LYRICS A – L und THE LYRICS M – Z in Leinenbox / Format der Box: 28,0 cm x 22,0 cm x 8,0 cm /  / Format der Bücher: jeweils 26,8 cm x 21,8 cm x 3,5 bzw. 3,8 cm / 874 Seiten gesamt / Abbildungen: 154 Songtexte, Fotos, Dokumente

Content of LYRICS A – L: Foreword by Paul McCartney / Notes for readers / Introduction by Paul Muldoon / Photographs, illustrations and resp. or reprints of the handwritten texts for the following songs: All My Loving, And I Love Her, Another Day, Arrow Through Me, Average Person, Back In The U.S.S.R., Band On The Run, Birthday, Blackbird, Café On The Left Bank, Calico Skies, Can’t Buy Me Love, Carry That Weight, Check My Machine, Come And Get It, Coming Up, Confidante, Cook Of The House, Country Dreamer, A Day In The Life, Dear Friend, Despite Repeated Warnings, Distractions, Do It Now, Dress Me Up As A Robber, Drive My Car, Eat At Home, Ebony And Ivory, Eight Days A Week, Eleanor Rigby, The End, Fixing A Hole, The Fool On The Hill, For No One, From Me To You , Get Back, Getting Closer, Ghosts Of The Past Left Behind, Girls’ School, Give Ireland Back To The Irish, Golden Earth Girl, Golden Slumbers, Good Day Sunshine Goodbye, Got To Get You Into My Life, Great Day, A Hard Day’s Night, Helen Wheels, Helter Skelter, Her Majesty, Here There And Everywhere, Here Today, Hey Jude, Hi Hi Hi, Honey Pie, Hope Of Deliverance, House Of Wax, I Don’t Know, I Lost My Little Girl, I Saw Her Standing There, I Wanna Be Your Man, I Want To Hold Your Hand, I Will, I’ll Follow The Sun, I’ll Get You, I’m Carrying, I’m Down, In Spite Of All The Danger, I’ve Got A Feeling, Jenny Wren, Jet, Junior’s Farm, Junk, The Kiss Of Venus.

Content of LYRICS M – Z: Photographs, illustrations and resp. or reprints of the handwritten texts for the following songs: Lady Madonna, Let ‘Em In, Let It Be, Let Me Roll It, Live And Let Die, London Town, The Long And Winding Road, Love Me Do, Lovely Rita, Magneto And Titanium Man, Martha My Dear, Maxwell’s Silver Hammer, Maybe I’m Amazed, Michelle, Mother Nature’s Son, Mrs. Vandebilt, Mull Of Kintyre, My Love, My Valentine, Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five, No More Lonely Nights, The Note You Never Wrote, Nothing Too Much Just Out Of Sight, Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da, Oh Woman, Oh Why, Old Siam, Sir, On My Way To Work, Once Upon A Long Ago, Only Mama Knows, The Other Me, Paperback Writer, Penny Lane, Picasso’s Last Words (Drink To Me), Pipes Of Peace, Please Please Me, Pretty Boys, Pretty Little Head, Put It There, Rocky Raccoon, San Ferry Anne, Say Say Say, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, She Came In Through The Bathroom Window, She Loves You, She’s A Woman, She’s Given Up Talking, She’s Leaving Home, Silly Love Songs, Simple As That, Single Pigeon, Somedays, Spirits Of Ancient Egypt, Teddy Boy, Tell Me Who He Is, Temporary Secretary, Things We Said Today, Ticket To Ride, Too Many People, Too Much Rain, Tug Of War, Two Of Us, Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey, Venus And Mars/Rock Show/Venus And Mars – Reprise, Warm And Beautiful, Waterfalls, We All Stand Together, We Can Work It Out, We Got Married , When I’m Sixty-Four, When Winter Comes, Why Don’t We Do It In The Road?, With A Little Help From My Friends, Women And Wives, The World Tonight, The World You’re Coming Into, Yellow Submarine, Yesterday, You Never Give Me Your Money, You Tell Me, Your Mother Should Know / Acknowledgements / Credits / Register.

Paul McCartney: „More often than I can count, I’ve been asked if I would write an autobiography, but the time has never been right. The one thing I’ve always managed to do, whether at home or on the road, is to write new songs. I know that some people, when they get to a certain age, like to go to a diary to recall day-to-day events from the past, but I have no such notebooks. What I do have are my songs, hundreds of them, which I’ve learned serve much the same purpose. And these songs span my entire life.“ („Unzählige Male wurde ich schon gebeten, eine Autobiografie zu schreiben, aber nie war die richtige Zeit dafür. Meist zog ich Kinder groß oder war auf Tournee – beides ist nicht ideal, wenn man sich über lange Strecken konzentrieren möchte. Das einzige, was immer ging, egal ob zu Hause oder unterwegs, war Songs zu schreiben. Wenn Leute erst mal ein gewisses Alter erreicht haben, greifen sie gerne auf Tagebücher oder Terminkalender zurück, erinnern sich Tag für Tag an vergangene Ereignisse, aber solche Aufzeichnungen habe ich nicht. Was ich habe, sind meine Songs – hunderte – und eigentlich erfüllen sie denselben Zweck. Sie umspannen mein gesamtes Leben, weil ich schon mit vierzehn Jahren zuhause in Liverpool, als ich meine erste Gitarre bekam, instinktiv anfing, Songs zu schreiben. Seither habe ich nicht mehr aufgehört.“)

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In this extraordinary book, with unparalleled candour, Paul recounts his life and art through the prism of 154 songs from all stages of his career – from his earliest boyhood compositions through the legendary decade of the Beatles, to Wings and his solo albums to the present. Arranged alphabetically to provide a kaleidoscopic rather than chronological account, it establishes definitive texts of the songs’ lyrics for the first time and describes the circumstances in which they were written, the people and places that inspired them, and what he thinks of them now.

Presented with this is a treasure trove of material from McCartney’s personal archive – drafts, letters, photographs – never seen before, which make this also a unique visual record of one of the greatest songwriters of all time.

We learn intimately about the man, the creative process, the working out of melodies, the moments of inspiration. The voice and personality of Paul McCartney sings off every page. There has never been a book about a great musician like it

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