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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 más frecuencia de las que puedo contar, me han preguntado si escribiría una autobiografía, pero nunca ha sido el momento adecuado. Lo único con lo que siempre me las he arreglado para hacer, ya sea en casa o de viaje, es escribir canciones nuevas. Sé que a algunas personas, cuando llegan a cierta edad, les gusta ir en busca de su diario para recordar los acontecimientos del día a día del pasado, pero yo no tengo esos cuadernos. Lo que sí tengo son mis canciones, cientos de ellas, de las que he aprendido que tienen el mismo propósito. 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 cómo ocurre la música y lo que significa para mí, y espero que pueda significar también algo para los demás.» (Paul McCartney) «A partir de las conversaciones que mantuve con Paul McCartney durante un período de cinco años, estos textos son lo más parecido a una autobiografía que jamás podríamos haber escrito. Sus conocimientos sobre su propio proceso artístico confirman una noción que ya habíamos que Paul McCartney es una figura literaria importante que se basa y extiende en la larga tradición de la poesía inglesa. Durante sesenta años ha encarnado la inquietud que asociamos con el artista de primer nivel. Y más allá de eso, Paul McCartney es notable porque es uno de los pocos que no solo está influenciado por su tiempo sino que su trabajo ha definido sustancialmente ese tiempo.» (Paul Muldoon)

616 pages, Paperback

Published November 15, 2023

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Paul McCartney

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Sir James Paul McCartney MBE, known as Paul McCartney, is an English singer-songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, poet, entrepreneur, painter, record producer, film producer, and animal-rights activist. He gained worldwide fame as one of the founders and members of The Beatles. McCartney and John Lennon formed one of the most influential and successful songwriting partnerships and "wrote some of the most popular music in rock and roll history". After leaving The Beatles, McCartney launched a successful solo career and formed the band Wings with his first wife, Linda Eastman McCartney, and songwriter/singer Denny Laine. He has worked on film scores, classical music, and ambient/electronic music; released a large catalogue of songs as a solo artist; and taken part in projects to help international charities.

McCartney is listed in Guinness World Records as the most successful musician and composer in popular music history, with 60 gold discs and sales of 100 million singles. His song "Yesterday" is listed as the most covered song in history and has been played more than 7,000,000 times on American television and radio. Wings' 1977 single "Mull of Kintyre" became the first single to sell more than two million copies in the UK, and remains the UK's top selling non-charity single. (Three charity singles have since surpassed it in sales; the first to do so—in 1984—was Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?", whose participants included McCartney.)

His company MPL Communications owns the copyrights to more than 3,000 songs, including all of the songs written by Buddy Holly, along with the publishing rights to such musicals as Guys and Dolls, A Chorus Line, and Grease.

An iconic figure in contemporary culture, he is regarded internationally as an entertainer and humanitarian. Aside from his musical work, McCartney is an actor, a painter, a poet, and an advocate for animal rights, vegetarianism, and music education; he is active in campaigns against landmines, seal hunting, and Third World debt.

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