![]() ![]() (Three charity singles have since surpassed it in sales the first to do so-in 1984-was Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?", whose participants included McCartney.) Wings' 1977 single "Mull of Kintyre" became the first single to sell more than two million copies in the UK, and remains the UK's top selling non-charity single. His song "Yesterday" is listed as the most covered song in history and has been played more than 7,000,000 times on American television and radio. ![]() McCartney is listed in Guinness World Records as the most successful musician and composer in popular music history, with 60 gold discs and sales of 100 million singles. He has worked on film scores, classical music, and ambient/electronic music released a large catalogue of songs as a solo artist and taken part in projects to help international charities. After leaving The Beatles, McCartney launched a successful solo career and formed the band Wings with his first wife, Linda Eastman McCartney, and songwriter/singer Denny Laine. McCartney and John Lennon formed one of the most influential and successful songwriting partnerships and "wrote some of the most popular music in rock and roll history". He gained worldwide fame as one of the founders and members of The Beatles. Sir James Paul McCartney MBE, known as Paul McCartney, is an English singer-songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, poet, entrepreneur, painter, record producer, film producer, and animal-rights activist. 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. 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. 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. 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. More on this from Nova here.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 McCartney through 154 of his most meaningful songs. I’ve tried to say something about how the music happens and what it means to me and I hope what it may mean to others too”.Įarlier this month, it was also announced that Paul McCartney’s Hulu docuseries bagged several nominations at this year’s Emmy Awards, alongside Peter Jackson’s Beatles: Get Back. “I hope that what I’ve written will show people something about my songs and my life which they haven’t seen before. And these songs span my entire life”, McCartney said in a statement last February. What I do have are my songs, hundreds of them, which I’ve learned serve much the same purpose. ![]() 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. “The one thing I’ve always managed to do, whether at home or on the road, is to write new songs. This book reflected on McCartney’s eight decade career as a songwriter. This news comes after Paul McCartney released The Lyrics: 1956 To Present last November. Paul McCartney Releases The Lyrics: 1956 To Present His latest solo record ‘McCartney III’ debuted at number two in the US Billboard Chart, and top spot in the UK Album Chart. Macca’s 26 solo albums have subsequently 86.5 million copies. The career of Paul McCartney since the Beatles has been nothing short of remarkable. ![]()
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