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<p>'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. </p><p>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.' 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. </p><p>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. 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. Each volume is 480 pp, not available separately</p>

<p><b>Photographs and Reflections by Paul McCartney</b><br/><br/><b><i>'Millions of eyes were suddenly upon us, creating a picture I will never forget for the rest of my life.'</i></b><br/><br/>In 2020, an extraordinary trove of nearly a thousand photographs taken by Paul McCartney on a 35mm camera was re-discovered in his archive. They intimately record the months towards the end of 1963 and beginning of 1964 when Beatlemania erupted in the UK and, after the band's first visit to the USA, they became the most famous people on the planet. The photographs are McCartney's personal record of this explosive time, when he was, as he puts it, in the 'Eyes of the Storm'.<br/><br/><i>1964: Eyes of the Storm</i> presents 275 of McCartney's photographs from the six cities of these intense, legendary months - Liverpool, London, Paris, New York, Washington, D.C. and Miami - and many never-before-seen portraits of John, George and Ringo. In his Foreword and Introductions to these city portfolios, McCartney remembers 'what else can you call it - <i>pandemonium</i>' and conveys his impressions of Britain and America in 1964 - the moment when the culture changed and the Sixties really began.<br/><br/><i>1964: Eyes of the Storm </i>includes:<br/>- Six city portfolios - Liverpool, London, Paris, New York, Washington, D.C. and Miami - and a Coda on the later months of 1964 - featuring 275 of Paul McCartney's photographs and his candid reflections on them<br/>- A Foreword by Paul McCartney<br/>- <i>Beatleland</i>, an Introduction by Harvard historian and <i>New Yorker</i> essayist Jill Lepore<br/>- A Preface by Nicholas Cullinan, Director of the National Portrait Gallery, London, and <i>Another Lens</i>, an essay by Senior Curator Rosie Broadley</p>

<p>I den här unika boken berättar Paul McCartney uppriktigt om sitt liv och sin musik genom 154 låtar från hela hans karriär - med början i de allra tidigaste alstren i barndomen och vidare genom det sägenomsusade decenniet med The Beatles, till Wings och hans soloalbum idag. Varje låttext får för första gången sin förklaring och läsaren får ta del av omständigheterna när de skrevs och vad han känner för låtarna idag. Allt detta presenteras tillsammans med material från McCartneys privata arkiv - utkast, brev, fotografier - saker som inte tidigare visats. Paul McCartneys röst och personlighet ljuder från varje sida.</p>

<p>'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 161 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.</p>