![]() Paul’s fans often moan amongst themselves about how he squanders great tracks to B-side oblivion. Paul later ‘borrowed’ the melody for Golden Earth Girl, which appeared on Off The Ground in 1993. This almost Let It Be style piano ballad ended 1976’s Wings at the Speed of Sound. So as the 14th of February approaches, we thought now was the time to dig out, for your enjoyment, 10 Lost Love Songs by Paul McCartney. ![]() However, look beyond the familiar Fab Four compositions into McCartney’s Wings and solo career, and you will find some little-known love songs that deserve a much wider audience. And I Love Her, Michelle, and Here There and Everywhere to name but three. Lovers everywhere know that McCartney likes a ballad, and his compositions, particularly with The Beatles, are as highly regarded as they are well known. We normally finished a song in about three hours, and can't ever remember coming away from a session without having a song.In a week’s time Paul McCartney will release his new album Kisses on the Bottom, just in time for Valentine’s Day. And we wrote some great stuff and enjoyed it - never really sweated it. ![]() Y'know, I'm the guy he wrote with - that's pretty cool. McCartney says that above all the other emotions he has regarding having John Lennon as his best friend for a substantial part of his life, he's still in awe of their musical connection: “I've got so many great memories, and I feel very privileged. Presented with this is a treasure trove of material from McCartney's personal archive - drafts, letters, photographs - never seen before, which make this also a unique visual record of one of the greatest songwriters of all time. In this extraordinary book, with unparalleled candour, Paul recounts his life and art through the prism of 154 songs from all stages of his career - from his earliest boyhood compositions through the legendary decade of The Beatles, to Wings and his solo albums to the present.Īrranged alphabetically to provide a kaleidoscopic rather than chronological account, it establishes definitive texts of the songs’ lyrics for the first time and describes the circumstances in which they were written, the people and places that inspired them, and what he thinks of them now. The official announcement sheds light on the book's contents: 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. “Macca” wrote in the two-volume set's press release, “More often than I can count, I’ve been asked if I would write an autobiography, but the time has never been right. ![]() The collection, which was edited and introduced by Paul Muldoon, includes his Beatles songs written with John Lennon, features “a treasure trove of material from McCartney’s personal archive - drafts, letters, photographs - never seen before, which make this also a unique visual record of one of the greatest songwriters of all time.” ![]() Paul McCartney has unveiled all 154 song titles featured in his upcoming book coming on November 2nd, titled, The Lyrics: 1956 To The Present by Paul McCartney. ![]()
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