British musician Paul McCartney will gather almost five and a half decades of his career into one literary work
“154 songs, two volumes and one amazing book”, are the words with which the former Beatles member announced the book “The Lyrics”. The book combines lyrics he has written since 1957, which is why he called it “a self-portrait through 154 poems”.
Among the jewels from the musician’s archive are the lyrics for the song “Tell Me Who He Is”, which was never recorded and which no one knew about until now.
The lyrics intended for the Beatles date from the first half of the 1960s and were discovered in one of the musician’s volumes.
“The Lyrics” will be published on November 2, and they will contain “treasures from the McCartney archives”, specified the publisher Alan Lane.
In front of the readers, there will be manuscripts of lyrics, hitherto unseen private photographs, unfinished drafts of poems and drawings. And the lyrics of each song (“All My Loving”, “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da”, “Hey Jude”, “Yesterday”, “Eleanor Rigby”, “Helter Skelter”, “Yellow Submarine”, ” Live and Let Die “…), will follow McCartney’s record of their” conception “.
“I’ve been asked countless times when I’m going to write an autobiography, but it’s never been the right time. But no matter where I’ve been – whether on the road or at home – it’s always been the right time to create new songs. I know some people lead a diary to remind me of things from the past, but I’ve never done that. All I have are my songs, hundreds of them, that have the role of a diary and that are my life, “Paul McCartney wrote in the book’s introduction.
The book “The Lyrics” is the fruit of strong conversations that the Northern Irish poet Paul Muldoon and Paul McCartney had for five years. In these “sessions”, they would, as the poet stated for the Guardian, consider the origin of each song of the British singer-songwriter in a “very intense way”.
Muldoon, who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his work, compared the conversations with the British musician with those McCartney had with John Lennon while creating songs for the Beatles.
“He looks deeply at every aspect of his life and I believe that readers will be surprised when they get to know that side of musicians as well. When this book is published, I think everyone will understand that Paul McCartney is an important literary figure,” Muldoon told the British daily.
Immediately after the news about the publication of the book of McCartney’s lyrics, everyone was most interested in the “discovery” of the hitherto unknown song “Tell Me Who He Is”. The author who signed the biographical books about the “Liverpool bugs”, Bob Spitz, compared the discovery of the lyrics for that song with “the discovery of the sarcophagus of Cleopatra”.
The notebooks of John Lennon and Paul McCartney were filled with half-finished lyrics, even finished songs that they rejected. During those first years, the songs kept coming out of them and they couldn’t get them all recorded.
“We can only imagine how many Beatles songs ended up in the bin,” Spitz told the Guardian, adding that after the book was published, Beatles fans would probably “relentlessly dissect” every word in the song “Tell Me Who He Is” to further illuminate the legendary’s past. of Liverpool composition.
Release Date of Paul McCartney’s book “The Lyrics”
The release of the book “The Lyrics” will be accompanied by an exhibition at the British Library in London. Everything that was found in the rich archive of Paul McCartney will be in front of the audience at the British Library from November 5.
The exhibition will offer visitors to see all the manuscripts of the musicians in one place, and among them will be the one for the song “Tell Me Who He Is”. The exhibition will last until March next year.
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