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"A work of unparalleled candor and splendorous beauty, The Lyrics celebrates the creative life and the musical genius of Paul McCartney through 154 of his most meaningful songs. 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 Paul McCartney songs 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, among 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 high-school English teacher. With images from McCartney's personal archives--handwritten texts, paintings, and photographs, hundreds previously unseen--The Lyrics, spanning sixty-four years, becomes the definitive literary and visual record of one of the greatest songwriters of all time"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

• Volume 1, A-K. 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.
• Volume 2, L-Z. 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.

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Author/Creator:

McCartney, Paul , author

Contributors:

Muldoon, Paul , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The lyrics: 1956 to the present [by McCartney, P.]

Subjects:

McCartney, Paul

Beatles

Songs — Texts

Rock music — Texts

Songs

Rock music

Genres:

Popular music lyrics

Rock lyrics

Anecdotes

Rock music

Texts

General Notes:

Includes index.

Physical Description:

2 volumes (xxxi, 874 pages) : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Physical Characteristics:

illustration

Call Numbers:

ML54.6.M13 L97 2021

ISBNs:

9781631492563 (set)
163149256X (set)
9781324091134 (electronic publication) [Invalid]
1324091134 (electronic publication) [Invalid]

Other Standard Numbers:

[Unknown Type]: 40030780918

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2021012488

OCLC Numbers:

1245249385