{"product_id":"the-lyrics-1956-to-the-present-9781631492563","title":"The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present","description":"\u003cp\u003e#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 McCartney through 154 of his most meaningful songs. 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. 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. Here are the origins of Let It Be  Lovely Rita  Yesterday  and Mull of Kintyre  as well as McCartneys literary influences  including Shakespeare  Lewis Carroll  and Alan Durband  his high-school English teacher. With images from McCartneys personal archiveshandwritten texts  paintings  and photographs  hundreds previously unseenThe Lyrics  spanning sixty-four years  becomes the definitive literary and visual record of one of the greatest songwriters of all time. 165 images\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666324545589,"sku":"ByrdShop_163149256X","price":56.62,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781631492563.jpg?v=1782428263","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-lyrics-1956-to-the-present-9781631492563","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}