Paul McCartney

El relato histórico en primera persona de la mano del propio Paul McCartney de su triunfal reinvención post Beatles en la década de 1970 y el posterior auge de una de las bandas más icónicas de la década.Contado en una reveladora primera persona, este relato inmersivo de Paul McCartney y los Wings es la fascinante historia oral de una banda que llego a definir una generacion. Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run narra la asombrosa, casi improbable, historia de Paul McCartney y su recien formada banda desde 1971 hasta su disolucion apenas una decada despues. Basada en mas de horas y horas de entrevistas con McCartney, musicos clave y familiares, Wings relata conmovedoramente, con la sabiduria de medio siglo a sus espaldas, la historia de un hombre y musico que lidio con las consecuencias de la separacion de los Beatles, y al que pronto se unieron su esposa la fotografa estadounidense Linda McCartney en los teclados y la voz, el bateria Denny Seiwell y el guitarrista Denny Laine, entre otros musicos que pasaron por el grupo.Organizada en torno a los nueve albumes de los Wings, la narracion sigue a la aventurera banda mientras sobreviven a un robo en las calles de Nigeria, aparecen sin previo aviso en varias residencias universitarias, realizan giras en un destartalado autobus de dos pisos con sus hijos, todo ello, mientras producen algunos de los temas mas perdurables de la decada. Con 150 fotografias en blanco y negro y un cuadernillo a color, muchas de ellas ineditas, esta es una gran obra emblematica de una originalidad deslumbrante sobre una extraordinaria banda, de la que hay mucho que contar.

La autobiografía en rústica y en un solo volumen a través de las 161 canciones más emblemáticas desde 1956 hasta la actualidad de Paul McCartney, el mayor compositor musical de la historia contemporánea.Con mas frecuencia de las que puedo contar, me han preguntado si escribiria una autobiografia, pero nunca ha sido el momento adecuado. Lo unico con lo que siempre me las he arreglado para hacer, ya sea en casa o de viaje, es escribir canciones nuevas. Se que a algunas personas, cuando llegan a cierta edad, les gusta ir en busca de su diario para recordar los acontecimientos del dia a dia del pasado, pero yo no tengo esos cuadernos. Lo que si tengo son mis canciones, cientos de ellas, de las que he aprendido que tienen el mismo proposito. Y estas canciones abarcan toda mi vida.Espero que lo que he escrito le muestre a la gente algo sobre mis canciones y mi vida que no hayan visto antes. He intentado decir algo sobre como ocurre la musica y lo que significa para mi, y espero que pueda significar tambien algo para los demas. (Paul McCartney)A partir de las conversaciones que mantuve con Paul McCartney durante un periodo de cinco años, estos textos son lo mas parecido a una autobiografia que jamas podriamos haber escrito. Sus conocimientos sobre su propio proceso artistico confirman una nocion que ya habiamos adivinado: que Paul McCartney es una figura literaria importante que se basa y extiende en la larga tradicion de la poesia inglesa.Durante sesenta años ha encarnado la inquietud que asociamos con el artista de primer nivel. Y mas alla de eso, Paul McCartney es notable porque es uno de los pocos que no solo esta influenciado por su tiempo sino que su trabajo ha definido sustancialmente ese tiempo. (Paul Muldoon)

The Complete Beatles Recording SessionsThe Official Story of the Abbey Road Years 1962-1970After years out of print, a new edition of this hotly sought-after classic is available again! Mark Lewisohns definitive guide covers every recording session done by the Beatles at EMIs famed Abbey Road recording studio. It includes the number of takes for each song; who contributed what; previously unpublished studio documents and interviews with many of the key recording personnel; and facsimile reproductions of Abbey Road recording sheets, tape boxes, album sleeve roughs, memos, contracts, press releases and more.Lavishly illustrated with over 350 photographs (rare images by Linda McCartney among them), this must-have volume also features an exclusive introductory interview with Paul McCartney.

Una història escrita per Paul McCartney! L''''avi és un superaventurer que sap fer coses increïbles. El vols conèixer? Amb la seva brúixola mágica, porta els seus quatre nets a viure aventures trepi

Millions of eyes were suddenly upon us, creating a picture I will never forget. Paul McCartneyTaken 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 citiesLiverpool, London, Paris, New York, Washington, D.C., and Miamiof 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 Lepore275 images

A self-portrait in 154 songs, by our greatest living songwriter''''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.''''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.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.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Hey Grandude! written and read by Paul McCartney.From Paul McCartney - an action-packed book celebrating the fun grandparents and grandkids can get up to.See the compass needle spin - let the magic fun begin!Meet Grandude - a super-cool, intrepid-explorer grandfather with some amazing tricks up his sleeve...Grandude is a one-of-a-kind adventurer! With his magic compass he whisks his four grandkids off on whirlwind adventures, taking them all around the globe. . .Join them as they ride flying fish, dodge stampedes, and escape avalanches!

As the Chillers explored, Lucy spotted a picture of Nandude, their adventurous grandmother."When will we see her again?" asked Bob."Perhaps we could go on an adventure to find her!" said Em . . .Grandude and the Chillers are back!Jump aboard Grandude's magical green submarine and join the quest to find Nandude, following her musical trail around the world and deep beneath the sea.From the legendary Paul McCartney's unique imagination comes this action-packed, rip-roaring adventure. Packed full of strange surprises, playful Beatles references, and heart-warming family fun.Celebrate the fun grandparents and their grandchildren can have together, even if there is a bit of distance keeping them apart.

Esta antología reúne más de cien composiciones que en algunos casos McCartney planteó como canciones o directamente como poemas. No parece exagerado decir que nos encontramos ante el total de la obra poetica del ex Beatle, ya que este volumen incluso presenta la docena de poemas que McCartney escribio como homenaje a su mujer, Linda, pocas semanas antes y justo despues de que ella falleciera. A traves de las paginas de Blackbird Singing, Poemas y canciones, 1965 - 1999, podemos descubrir la especial sensibilidad de su autor, su evolucion creativa dentro y fuera de la orbita de The Beatles.

Imagine a land where all the animals are free...To the creatures of the woodland, the land of Animalia sounds like a dream - a tropical island where all the animals live in harmony. They are over-shadowed by a much more evil community - the polluted Megatropolis, whose dirty skyscrapers block the horizon. And then one day, Wirral the Squirrel''s woodland is destroyed by developers and he is thrown into the nightmare world of Megatropolis. But Wirral believes in Animalia and he joins with Froggo, a world-class amphibian balloonist, and Wilhamina, a girl squirrel, to lead the enslaved animals of the city to a new life. So begins an exciting adventure through the mean streets of Megatropolis, over the sea and through the sky. But can Wirral defend Animalia against the wicked Gretsch, who is determined to destroy it once and for all? Developed out of an exceptional fusion of creative talents, this story explodes onto every page. The plot is fast, furious and funny; the illustrations are full of rich depth and colour; and the characters live on long after you have turned the final page. It will delight children of all ages and is sure to become an enduring classic.

Fans of McCartney will relish this volume of photos and interviews recording the singer's record-breaking 2002-2003 world tour. The text is taken from interviews and conversations filmed during the tour. The photographs are by Bill Bernstein.

El abuelo es un superaventurero que sabe hacer cosas increíbles... ¿Quieres conocerlo? Con su brújula mágica, lleva a sus cuatro nietos a vivir unas trepidantes aventuras. ¡Únete a ellos y podrás montar en peces voladores, esquivar estampidas y escapar de avalanchas! Una historia genial para toda la familia escrita por Paul McCartney, la leyenda del pop.

A HISTÓRIA DA BANDA QUE DEFINIU UMA GERAÇÃO EM UMA OBRA OFICIAL NARRADA PELO PRÓPRIO PAUL MCCARTNEY E PELOS EX-INTEGRANTES DA WINGS!Narrado em primeira pessoa, este relato imersivo do próprio Paul Mc

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, 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.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.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.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARWinner of Non-Fiction Book of the Year, British Book Awards (Nibbies), 2022A self-portrait in 154 songs, by our greatest living songwriter'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.'

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA Washington Post Notable BookExcerpted in The New YorkerA work of unparalleled candor and splendorous beauty, The Lyrics celebrates the creative life and the musical genius of Paul McCartney through his most meaningful songs.Finally in paperback and featuring seven new song commentaries, the #1 New York Times bestseller celebrates the creative life and unparalleled musical genius of Paul McCartney.

Por primera vez, salen a la luz las fotografías con las que Paul McCartney documentó la gira mundial de 1963-64, que convirtió a The Beatles en un fenómeno. Un documento único para viajar a un momento irrepetible.Las imagenes tomadas por McCartney recogen numerosos momentos intimos de los integrantes de la banda, y ofrecen una mirada unica sobre el ambiente, la personalidad y la forma en como los musicos percibian el fenomeno que iba creciendo a su alrededor. Incluyen retratos intimos de sus compañeros John Lennon, George Harrison, Ringo Starr y su manager Brian Epstein en medio de momentos de concentracion, de relajacion y, tambien, de alegria. El propio ex beatle, que recupero en 2020 los negativos de su archivo personal, la inmensa mayoria ineditos y nunca pasados a papel, se ha encargado de la seleccion definitiva. Ademas, la acompaña de sus reflexiones, que suponen tambien un viaje personal hacia aquel joven que empezaba a entender como estaban revolucionando no solo la musica, sino tambien, en cierta forma, el mundo. Una introduccion de la historiadora estadounidense Jill Lapore completa la reconstruccion de un autentico fenomeno.