He’s going to come out of this book as a major literary figure.”īeatles biographer Bob Spitz said he was “keener than keen” to see the lyrics to Tell Me Who He Is. “He looks long and hard into every aspect of life and I believe readers, old and new, will be struck by a book that will show that side of him. We were determined never to leave the room without something interesting,” said Muldoon. “In a strange way, our process mimicked the afternoon sessions he had with John Lennon when they wrote for the Beatles. Muldoon, the Pulitzer prize-winning Northern Irish poet, previously told the Guardian that the book was based on a series of meetings he had had with McCartney over five years, during which they discussed the background to his songs “in a very intensive way”. 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. “More often than I can count, I’ve been asked if I would write an autobiography, but the time has never been right,” writes McCartney in a foreword to the book. Each song – from All My Loving to Yellow Submarine – will come with commentary from McCartney about its creation. The book will be released on 2 November and will also include “many further treasures” from McCartney’s archives, said Allen Lane, from handwritten lyric sheets, to previously unseen personal photographs, drafts and drawings. The handwritten and never-before-seen lyrics were found in one of McCartney’s notebooks – believed to date back to the early 1960s – while preparing the book. Publisher Allen Lane said the book would also feature the lyrics to the unrecorded song Tell Me Who He Is.
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