Released this week, the two-tome set is arranged alphabetically, with lyrics to songs like “Hey Jude”, “A Hard Day’s Night” and “Penny Lane” accompanied by their inspiration. From looking for inspiration on the bus to finding titles in dreams, Paul McCartney looks back on his life in a new book recounting how he wrote some of the world’s most famous songs.ĭescribed as “a self-portrait in 154 songs”, “The Lyrics:1956 to the Present” spans McCartney’s eight decades of songwriting – as a teenager, a member of the Beatles, his time with rock band Wings and as a successful solo artist.
