Paul McCartney - The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present [SIGNED LIMITED EDITION #/175]

Liveright, 2021. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. As new. Liveright, 2021. SIGNED - 2 volumes housed in a clamshell case and issued with an exclusive print of a lyric sheet (also numbered). First Edition, First Printing. Limited Edition of 175 individually numbered copies signed and numbered copies HAND SIGNED by Sir Paul McCartney on the Numbered Signature Page of volume 1 (this being #108/175).CONDITION: Fine/As New - the set (still housed in the original cardboard container with the ISBN and numbered edition sticker). SIGNED '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."