Paul McCartney has just announced his first public event in over two years, set for November 5th when he discusses his new book, The Lyrics: 1956 To The Present, in London at Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall.
McCartney, who'll publish the tome on November 2nd, will be joined by Paul Muldoon, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, poet and editor of The Lyrics. The moderator for the evening will be journalist, broadcaster and writer Samira Ahmed. In addition to a ticketed audience, the event will be live streamed.
The Lyrics: 1956 To The Present includes McCartney's Beatles songs written with John Lennon, features “a treasure trove of material from McCartney’s personal archive — drafts, letters, photographs — never seen before, which make this also a unique visual record of one of the greatest songwriters of all time.”
A while back, Paul McCartney shed light on Memory Almost Full's “Every Present Past,” one of his most undeniable pop confections of the past 30 years — and a highlight on the new playlist: “It was really just me writing a pop song. Y'know, I was just trying to keep it real simple, do something very basic. Suddenly, when I got to the 'ever present past' (lyric), 'kind of it took on a bit more significance than I intended — 'things I did when I was a kid,' and stuff. And then I got into a video, which I enjoyed doing every much, me dancing around with these girls who learned all my moves. It was great fun to do, actually.”