Pengpai News reporter Qian Lianshui
Paul McCartney (Paul McCartney ) does not have the habit of writing a diary and does not intend to come out of his autobiography. But he does have a habit of recording life - writing lyrics. The newly published two-volume new book "The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present" contains 154 lyrics from McCartney, which is a very important part of the life of this Beatles .
"The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present"
Babyface McCartney can write lyrics anywhere. From lovers to climate change, race issues, a dog or a car, anything can become a lyric. The content of the book is divided into two parts: the lyrics themselves arranged in alphabetical order, and the words he and the poet Paul Muldoon have extracted during five years and 24 formal conversations. The two met in New York, each time lasting about 2-3 hours, enough to discuss 6-8 lyrics.
F starts with solid songs, "Fixing a Hole", "The Fool on the Hill", "For No One", "From Me to You". The "I" series contains the complete self, "I Saw Her Standing There", "I Wanna Be Your Man", "I Want to Hold Your Hand", "I'm Down", "I'll Follow the Sun".
The age difference between the two Pauls is nine years old and two days apart in birthdays. The protracted conversation produces few fruits. In the book, each lyrics are accompanied by a comment by Malden. If Malden pointed out to McCartney that She Loves You has the shadow of the novel The Go-Between (L.P. Hartley), he would happily admit that he was indeed influenced by it. He would let himself wander back to the childhood of Liverpool : On a small indirect call under the stairs, he was sent to the street by his father to collect cow dung and grow roses, and watch "Bootsie and Snudge" (Bootsie and Snudge) (Bootsie and Snudge) (Booksie and Snudge) (Booksie and Snudge) (Booksie and Snudge) (Matty Feldman's comedy work)...
2020, Paul McCartney was at home, photographed by his daughter Mary McCartney
1942, born in an immigrant family in Irish . He is the first generation who benefited from the " Butler Education Law " promulgated by the British government in 1944. He is also a new generation of immigrant descendants who have got rid of the influence of small Irish society after the war and embraced the new prosperity of England. McCartney’s parents do their best to get the best education for the two boys in the family. As a cotton salesman, the father was sensitive to words, obsessed with scrabble, and passed this passion to his son. McCartney also loves to find difficult words and enjoys the pleasure of blood clots when finding it. Like Yeats, he was interested in the theme of masks and personality. "Everything always starts with me. The various characters appearing in the song are fictional, and the key is the imagination of the characters."
English teacher who graduated from Downing College of Oxford University opened the door to literature for him and was the most important tutor in McCartney's student days. The other mentors are a variety of pop music and radio programs. Little Richard and Chuck Berry, Brill Building and Tin Pan Alley. His earliest idol was Buddy Holly, "He wrote and sang himself, and played the guitar himself."
Of course he also admires his creative partner John Lennon (John Lennon). They are left-handed and the other right-handed, and they "look in the mirror" when they are playing the piano. They are always like two lower grade students, endlessly searching for topics that have not been written into songs, saying childish nonsense, humming the simple tunes of lullaby . They talk about musicians of their contemporaries, but they still use Richard Jr. and Fred Astire as anchors when writing songs. "If it were them, what would this song look like?"
Paul McCartney and John Lennon wrote "I Saw Her Standing There" together, Liverpool, 1962. Mike McCartney Photo
"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" is a large radio program." The radio program greatly satisfy McCartney's interest in "text puzzles, clue puzzles, and finding the most appropriate words to describe a scene."Dylan Thomas' final masterpiece "Under Milk Tree" and many excellent radio dramas at the time nourished his imagination. McCartney treats himself as a playwright, writing a miniseries that can be sung, carving a tiny face for an ant-like character.
The other two sources of influence are related to vision. McCartney painted and drew hundreds of oil paintings. He also likes movies, "My cameras are always searching around and looking for clues of inspiration from life."
Use a song as a movie script to help you enter the world of "Eleanor Rigby". This song was published in 1966 and is one of McCartney's most famous works, specializing in movie structure . The two protagonists appear in the first and second paragraphs respectively, and they meet in the third paragraph, just like the technique of Hitchcock in the blood/clear water scene in the bathroom of "Psycho" (1960). Like Psycho, the hidden themes of Eleanor Rigby are also loneliness and death.
"Paul McCartney's greatness comes from his modesty. He is what Roland Barthes (Roland Barthes) calls the 'death of the author's, allowing different people to constantly reshape his works through listening and reading." What Marden admires most is his selflessness and selflessness. "He keeps writing, just a pencil, a piece of paper and a guitar, and the timeless work will come to the world by itself."
"Hey Jude" handwritten lyrics
Editor: Chen Shihuai
Proofreading: Liu Wei
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