1964: Augen des Sturms

"Was ich habe, sind meine Songs sie umspannen mein gesamtes Leben." Paul McCartney<BR><BR> Sieben Jahrzehnte umspannend von seiner frühen Liverpooler-Zeit über das historische Jahrzehnt der Beatles bis hin zu Wings und seiner langen Solokarriere hat Paul McCartneys Lyrics die Art, wie Künstler über Musik schreiben, revolutioniert, indem es die endgültigen Texte von 161 Songs mit intimen autobiografischen Kommentaren zu McCartneys Leben und seiner Musik verknüpft. <BR>Alphabetisch geordnet, zeigen diese berühmten Kommentare die jeweiligen Umstände, unter denen die Songs geschrieben wurden, wie sie entstanden sind, und die bemerkenswerten, aber oft wunderbar einfachen Menschen und Orte, die sie inspiriert haben. Dutzende von Vignetten lassen das Liverpool der Arbeiterklasse von McCartneys Jugend wiederauferstehen, in der Lieferjungen Pakete auf den Docks auslieferten und Besuche bei älteren Damen in der Nachbarschaft "Eleanor Rigby" inspirierten. McCartney stellt uns auch seine frühen literarischen Einflüsse vor, darunter Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll und Allen Ginsberg, aber auch Alan Durband, seinen geliebten Highschool-Englischlehrer, und seine Mutter Mary, die verstarb, als er gerade vierzehn Jahre alt war. <BR>Doch die beiden stärksten Präsenzen in Lyrics sind McCartneys Songwriter-Partner John Lennon und sein "Golden Earth Girl", Linda. <BR> <BR> - "Ein halbes Jahrhundert Musikgeschichte, eines der schönsten Bücher des Jahres." Elke Heidenreich, Spiegel Online - Die kompakte Ausgabe des zweibändigen Originals Mit sieben weiteren Songs - "Ein gewaltiges Werk und es schadet gar nichts, dass man bei fast jeder Zeile das Lied dahinter im Geiste mitsingt." Claus Kleber - "Ein Weltkulturerbe für sich." Julian Weber, taz - McCartney schildert Begegnungen mit den Großen seiner Zeit: Bob Dylan, Andy Warhol, Mick Jagger und Keith Richards, Willem de Kooning, Dustin Hoffman, Michael Jackson u.v.m.

The Sunday Times bestseller and Waterstones Book of the Year, now in paperback<BR><BR>'Paul McCartney says this is as close as he will get to an autobiography and no wonder - his life is in every line of these songs ... pure joy' Sunday Times, Book of the Year <BR><BR>With seven songs added for this edition: 'Bluebird,' 'Day Tripper,' 'English Tea,' 'Every Night,' 'Hello, Goodbye,' 'Magical Mystery Tour' and 'Step Inside Love'<BR><BR>Spanning seven decades - from his early Liverpool days, through the historic decade of The Beatles, to Wings and his long solo career - Paul McCartney's The Lyrics has transformed the way artists write about music, pairing the definitive texts of 161 songs with intimate, autobiographical commentaries on McCartney's life and music.<BR><BR>Arranged alphabetically, these commentaries reveal the diverse circumstances in which the songs were written, how they ultimately came to be, and the remarkable - often ordinary - people and places that inspired them. Dozens of vignettes re-create the working-class Liverpool of McCartney's youth, where delivery boys ran parcels on docks, as in 'On My Way to Work,' and elderly ladies in the neighbourhood inspired 'Eleanor Rigby.' McCartney also introduces us to his early literary influences, among them Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll and Allen Ginsberg, as well as Alan Durband, his beloved English teacher, and his mother, Mary, who passed away when he was just fourteen - and whose memory has infused his work ever since.<BR><BR>Yet the two most powerful presences in The Lyrics after the author himself are his songwriting partner, John Lennon, and his 'Golden Earth Girl,' Linda Eastman McCartney. Here McCartney describes how he met John at a church fête in 1957; their adventures with George Harrison and Ringo Starr in the early 1960s; and how, at the end of the decade, they, and The Beatles, broke up. Thus began a second act of now more than fifty years, with Linda and family life as driving forces - inspiring songs from 'Maybe I'm Amazed,' written just after the breakup of The Beatles, to the 2012 ballad 'My Valentine,' addressed to McCartney's wife and partner, Nancy Shevell McCartney.<BR><BR>Edited and introduced by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon, and enhanced by more than a hundred images from McCartney's personal archives - including handwritten texts, mementos, and photographs - and seven new song commentaries, The Lyrics is a book for the ages, and the definitive literary and visual record of one of the greatest songwriters of all time.

**A Financial Times Book of the Year**<BR>A landmark account of Paul McCartney's triumphant musical reinvention in the 1970s and the rise of one of the decade's most iconic bands<BR><BR>This is the story, in their own words, of a band that came to define a generation. Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run tells the madcap history of Paul McCartney and his newly formed band, from their humble beginnings in the early 1970s to their dissolution barely a decade later. Drawn from over 500,000 words of interviews with McCartney, family and band members, and other key participants, with a cast of characters including John Lennon, Ringo Starr, George Harrison, Chrissie Hynde, Mick Jagger and more, Wings recounts the musical odyssey taken by a man searching for his identity in the aftermath of The Beatles' breakup. Soon joined by his wife - American photographer Linda McCartney - on keyboard and vocals, drummer Denny Seiwell and guitarist Denny Laine, McCartney sowed the seeds for a new band that would provide the soundtrack to the decade.<BR><BR>Organised chronologically around McCartney, RAM and nine Wings albums, the narrative begins when a twenty-seven-year-old superstar, rumoured to be dead, fled with his new wife to a remote sheep farm in Scotland amid a sea of legal and personal rows. Being there gave McCartney time to create and was where this new band emerged. Wings then follows the group as they play unannounced shows at university halls, tour in a sheared-off double-decker bus with their children, survive a robbery on the streets of Nigeria, and eventually perform blockbuster stadium shows on their world tour, all while producing some of the most enduring music of the time.<BR><BR>With extraordinary recollections collected by Oscar-winning director Morgan Neville and edited into a genre-defining oral history by Ted Widmer, Wings transports the reader to the grit and glamour of the 1970s. Introduced with a heartfelt foreword by McCartney, Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run contains 150 black-and-white and colour photographs, many previously unseen, as well as timelines, a gigography and a full discography, in an art form all its own.<BR>

THE SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR<BR>Winner of Non-Fiction Book of the Year, British Book Awards (Nibbies), 2022<BR><BR>A self-portrait in 154 songs, by our greatest living songwriter<BR><BR>'More often than I can count, I've been asked if I would write an autobiography, but the time has never been right. The one thing I've always managed to do, whether at home or on the road, is to write new songs. 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. What I do have are my songs, hundreds of them, which I've learned serve much the same purpose. And these songs span my entire life.'<BR><BR>In this extraordinary book, with unparalleled candour, Paul McCartney 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. Arranged 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. 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.<BR><BR>We learn intimately about the man, the creative process, the working out of melodies, the moments of inspiration. The voice and personality of Paul McCartney sings off every page. There has never been a book about a great musician like it.<BR><BR>Each volume is 480 pp, not available separately

An engrossing oral history of a band that came to define a generation, Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run tells the madcap story of Paul McCartney and his newly formed band, from their humble beginnings in the early 1970s to their dissolution barely a decade later. Drawn from over 500,000 words of interviews with McCartney, family and band members, and other key participants, Wings recounts-now with a half-century's wisdom-the musical odyssey taken by a man searching for his identity in the aftermath of The Beatles' breakup. Soon joined by his wife - American photographer Linda McCartney - on keyboard and vocals; drummer Denny Seiwell; and guitarist Denny Laine, McCartney sowed the seeds for a new band that would later provide the soundtrack of the decade.Organized chronologically around McCartney, RAM, and nine Wings albums, the narrative begins when a twenty-seven-year-old superstar, rumored to be dead, fled with his new wife to a remote sheep farm in Scotland amid a sea of legal and personal rows. Despite the harsh conditions, the Scottish setting gave McCartney time to create, and it was here where this new band emerged. Wings then follows the group as they play unannounced shows at university halls, tour in a sheared-off double-decker bus with their children, survive a robbery on the streets of Nigeria, and eventually perform blockbuster stadium shows on their world tour, all while producing some of the most enduring music of the time.With extraordinary recollections collected by Oscar-winning director Morgan Neville and edited into a genre-defining oral history by Ted Widmer, Wings transports the reader, as if on a magic carpet, to the grit and glamour of the 1970s. Pushing creative forms to produce a new history, even a Wings bible, the book refracts a bygone era in a totally new light. Introduced with a personal, heartfelt foreword by McCartney, the volume contains 150 black-and-white and color photographs, many previously unseen, as well as timelines, a gigography, and a full discography. Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run emerges as a work of soaring originality that presents a new art form all its own.

Taken with a 35mm camera by Paul McCartney, these largely unseen photographs capture the explosive period, from the end of 1963 through early 1964, in which The Beatles became an international sensation and changed the course of music history. Featuring 275 images from the six cities--Liverpool, London, Paris, New York, Washington, D.C., and Miami--of these legendary months, 1964: Eyes of the Storm also includes: - A personal foreword in which McCartney recalls the pandemonium of British concert halls, followed by the hysteria that greeted the band on its first American visit- Candid recollections preceding each city portfolio that form an autobiographical account of the period McCartney remembers as the "Eyes of the Storm," plus a coda with subsequent events in 1964- "Beatleland," an essay by Harvard historian and New Yorker essayist Jill Lepore, describing how The Beatles became the first truly global mass culture phenomenonHandsomely designed, 1964: Eyes of the Storm creates an intensely dramatic record of The Beatles' first transatlantic trip, documenting the radical shift in youth culture that crystallized in 1964."You could hold your camera up to the world, in 1964. But what madness would you capture, what beauty, what joy, what fury?" --Jill Lepore

14 Fab Four favorites arranged for easy piano with practice tips for learning each song.

Das neue Bilderbuch von Musiklegende Sir Paul McCartney: ein echtes Highlight für alle Großeltern, Enkel und Beatles-Fans! Opapi-Opapa und die Krawaffels stürzen sich mit dem magischen Kompass und ihrem U-Boot in neue Abenteuer. Diesmal sind sie auf der Suche nach Omami-Omama, die abenteuerlustiger ist als sie alle. Wo werden sie Omama wohl finden? In Indien oder in den Tiefen der Ozeane? Wie immer, wenn Opapa und die Krawaffels unterwegs sind, wird es richtig aufregend! Und am Ende fallen alle müde in die Betten, auch Opapa. Über diese Schnarchnasen kann Omama nur schmunzeln ...Der Erfolg geht weiter: eine neue fantastische Abenteuergeschichte ab 4 Jahren - übersetzt von Wortkünstler Kai Lüftner.