Paul McCartney’s 960-Page Memoir Chronicling Eight Decades of Songwriting Is an Instant Best-Seller

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Paul McCartney, the iconic Beatles band member, epic solo artist and trumpeter player has put out a tome of a memoir.

The lyrical autobiography, “The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present” chronicles over 150 of McCartney’s songs, spanning from the first tunes he wrote while growing up in his childhood home in Liverpool to the beloved masterpieces he wrote for The Beatles, to contemporary hits from his solo career.

“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.

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