Paul McCartney & Paul Muldoon 
The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present [EPUB ebook] 

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A Washington Post Notable Book
Excerpted in The New Yorker
A work of unparalleled candor and splendorous beauty, The Lyrics celebrates the creative life and the musical genius of Paul Mc Cartney through his most meaningful songs.

Finally in paperback and featuring seven new song commentaries, the #1
New York Times bestseller celebrates the creative life and unparalleled musical genius of Paul Mc Cartney.
Spanning sixty-four years—from his early days in Liverpool, through the historic decade of The Beatles, to Wings and his solo career—Paul Mc Cartney’s
The Lyrics revolutionized the way artists write about music. An unprecedented “triumph” (
Times UK), this handsomely designed volume pairs the definitive texts of over 160 songs with first-person commentaries on Mc Cartney’s life, revealing the diverse circumstances in which songs were written; how they ultimately came to be; and the remarkable, yet often delightfully ordinary, people and places that inspired them.
The Lyrics also includes:
· A personal foreword by Mc Cartney
· An unprecedented range of songs, from beloved standards like “Band on the Run” to new additions “Day Tripper” and “Magical Mystery Tour”
· Over 160 images from Mc Cartney’s own archives
Edited and introduced by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon,
The Lyrics is the definitive literary and visual record of one of the greatest songwriters of all time.

Sobre el autor

Paul Muldoon is the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of fourteen full-length collections of poetry, including Howdie-Skelp.