<p><b>The <i>Sunday Times </i>bestseller and Waterstones Book of the Year, now in paperback<br></b><br><b>¿Paul McCartney says this is as close as he will get to an autobiography and no wonder ¿ his life is in every line of these songs ... pure joy¿ </b><i><b>Sunday Times</b></i><b>, Book of the Year </b><br><br>With seven songs added for this edition: ¿Bluebird,¿ ¿Day Tripper,¿ ¿English Tea,¿ ¿Every Night,¿ ¿Hello, Goodbye,¿ ¿Magical Mystery Tour¿ and ¿Step Inside Love¿<br><br>Spanning seven decades ¿ from his early Liverpool days, through the historic decade of The Beatles, to Wings and his long solo career ¿ Paul McCartney¿s <i>The Lyrics </i>has transformed the way artists write about music, pairing the definitive texts of 161 songs with intimate, autobiographical commentaries on McCartney¿s life and music.<br><br>Arranged alphabetically, these commentaries reveal the diverse circumstances in which the songs were written, how they ultimately came to be, and the remarkable ¿ often o