![]() ![]() ![]() These include paintings, personal artifacts, handwritten lyrics, and many images of his family, friends and bandmates. Many of them have never been seen before. In addition to the lyrics of the songs he chose – all listed alphabetically – there are more than 600 photos from Paul McCartney’s own collection. McCartney’s own version wasn’t released until decades later as part of the Beatles’ Anthology 3. The ex-Beatles star also wrote about songs he composed for other artists including “ Goodbye” for Mary Hopkin and “Come and Get It,” an introductory hit for Badfinger. He also made room for “ I Lost My Little Girl,” the first song he ever wrote way back in 1956. Songs include many major hits such as “Hey Jude,” “Eight Days a Week,” “She Loves You,” “Get Back,” and “Silly Love Songs” as well as deep album tracks and numerous obscurities from his more recent releases such as “My Valentine” from 2012’s Kisses On the Bottom and his latest, McCartney III. Muldoon is not his ghostwriter the prose all belongs to the talented man listed as the author. ![]() There is also an introduction written by the Irish poet Paul Muldoon, who helped edit and assemble the book for McCartney. In his own excellent foreword to The Lyrics, he says “fans or readers, or even critics, who really want to learn more about my life should read my lyrics, which might reveal more than any single book about the Beatles could do.” The result is this huge two-volume book, which discusses 154 songs McCartney wrote throughout his life with the Beatles, Wings, and as a solo artist. Instead, he said we can get a good accounting of his life through “my songs, hundreds of them, which I’ve learned serve much the same purpose. Paul McCartney has repeatedly turned down requests to write an autobiography. ![]()
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