The Beatles legend will recount his life and career in the upcoming book through the medium of 154 songs written at various stages of his career
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Month: February 2021
It will be released on November 2nd…Paul McCartney is set to release new book The LYRICS: 1956 To The Present on November 2nd.
The new tome is billed as a self-portrait split into 154 songs, collected in one place as a career-spanning journey.
Renowned poet and writer Paul Muldoon edits and introduces the book, which the Beatles legend dubs a form of autobiography.
“More often than I can count, I’ve been asked if I would write an autobiography, but the time has never been right,” he comments in a press note. “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…”
Released on November 2nd, it traces Paul McCartney’s journey from his teenage experimentations, the explosive rise of the Beatles, his growth as a songwriter, and onwards through Wings, and his solo catalogue.
He adds: “I hope that what I’ve written will show people something about my songs and my life which they haven’t seen before. I’ve tried to say something about how the music happens and what it means to me and I hope what it may mean to others too.”
Paul Muldoon was intimately involved in the project, which seemingly took around five years to bring to gestation. In turn, he offers: “Based on conversations I had with Paul McCartney over a five year period, these commentaries are as close to an autobiography as we may ever come. His insights into his own artistic process confirm a notion at which we had but guessed — that Paul McCartney is a major literary figure who draws upon, and extends, the long tradition of poetry in English.”
Check out a trailer below.
The LYRICS: 1956 To The Present will be released on November 2nd.
Photo Credit: Mary McCartney
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His album ‘Serpentine Prison’ is being expanded…The National frontman Matt Berninger has shared new solo track ‘Let It Be’.
The songwriter went solo in 2020, releasing his album ‘Serpentine Prison’ to widespread critical acclaim.
A deluxe edition of the LP is now in the works, set to be given a digital release on March 12th.
In addition to this new song, the expanded tracklist boasts another new song alongside four covers.
‘Let It Be’ isn’t a Beatles song, and it’s not a Replacements song either, for that matter – calm and assured, it’s pushed ahead by Berninger’s distinct baritone.
Tune in now.
‘Serpentine Prison (Deluxe Edition)’ will be released on March 12th.
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Today’s top telly tips include James Nesbitt, Charlene McKenna and Lorcan Cranitch in new drama Bloodlands, The Beatles, Chris Packham, and the grim tale of killer Joanna Dennehy . . .
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The deluxe Serpentine Prison track is not a Beatles cover
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Netflix has ordered a live-action series that will feature Wednesday Addams, the gothic family’s daughter, which will be directed by Tim Burton.
The coming-of-age series, titled “Wednesday,” will follow Addams as a student at Nevermore Academy. Netflix describes “Wednesday” as a “sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday Addams’ years as a student at Nevermore Academy. Wednesday’s attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a monstrous killing spree that has terrorized the local town, and solve the supernatural mystery that embroiled her parents 25 years ago — all while navigating her new and very tangled relationships at Nevermore.”
The character was most notably played by Christina Ricci in films “The Addams Family” and “Addams Family Values.” Lisa Loring starred as the character in the 1960s “Addams Family” TV series, and Chloë Grace Moretz voices her in the most recent animated films. Depending on the adaptation, Wednesday is either the older or younger sister to her brother, Pugsly.
Along with directing, Burton will executive produce alongside “Smallville” creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, who will serve as head writers and showrunners. Additional executive producers include Andrew Mittman for 1.21, Kevin Miserocchi, Kayla Alpert, Jonathan Glickman for Glickmania, and Gail Berman. The series is from MGM/UA Television.
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“The Addams Family,” first created by cartoonist Charles Addams in 1938, has had numerous on-screen iterations. The most notable version came in the 1990s with a pair of live-action films starring Raul Julia, Anjelica Huston, Christopher Lloyd and Christina Ricci (who played the teenage Wednesday). There was also an animated TV series around that same time. The most recent version has been a computer-animated film in 2019, with a sequel planned for 2021.
Burton is known for similar films to “Addams Family’s” general gothic-comedy tone such as “Edward Scissorhands,” “The Nightmare Before Christmas” and “Beatlejuice.”
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A ‘Lord of the Rings’ movie pitch, the genesis of the White Album and other trivia from the band’s historic stay in Rishikesh
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Photo Illustration by Kelly Caminero/The Daily Beast/Getty“And it doesn’t really matter what chords I play, what words I say or time of day it is,” George Harrison and the Beatles sang in 1967, aptly describing Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial that appears certain to end with enough Republicans holding the line to ensure Trump is, again, acquitted of inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection. This is all a matter of politics, not law.And yet… wow.I can’t tell which of Trump’s two main lawyers was worse. His first, former district attorney (and non-prosecutor of Bill Cosby) Bruce Castor, was so dull and incompetent as to make My Cousin Vinny look like Clarence Darrow. But his second, David Schoen, was so outrageous and extremist in his rhetoric that he resembled nothing so much as his client on trial for just that rhetoric.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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On February 9, 1964, Ed Sullivan welcomed the Fab Four to his show. A generation of rock legends were watching
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To say Rock Band revolutionized the admittedly short-lived plastic instrument phenomenon would be an understatement. This is a series that spawned not only a knockoff series from its biggest competitor but three direct sequels, multiple band-specific spinoffs (including the elusive Beatles license), and even a friggin’ LEGO collab — this thing had a full-blown zeitgeist. Like many niche interests, the genre crashed and burned, but a stalwart few still break out the cheap guitars and flimsy drum kits for some fake rock ‘n roll on a drunken Tuesday night.
I’m amongst those ranks.
Whether or not you ever got into the series, it’s proven to really have some legs. During its 13-year run, the series has featured some 2,800 songs, spanning every genre from the titular rock to rap, to country, and even parody tracks from South Park and Steven Colbert. Even to this day, the devs are still releasing DLC every Thursday to keep the series fresh.
It’s hard to complain about what the devs have done…but complaining is my business, and business is good. And gosh darn it, it’s time to put “You Get What You Give” in Rock Band.
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