The Questlove Show - Introducing: McCartney A Life in Lyrics

Episode Date: October 6, 2023

Hi, QuestLove fans! Listen to McCartney: A Life in Lyrics hosted by Paul McCartney! A new masterclass podcast that dives into an improvised journey with one of the most beloved figures in popular music. Each episode is centered on one song in McCartney’s catalog – from early Beatles to his solo work. Don't just take our word for it, check out the trailer to decide for yourself!   About McCartney: A Life in Lyrics: McCartney: A Life in Lyrics is a master class, a memoir, and an improvised journey with one of the most beloved figures in popular music: Paul McCartney. Each episode is centered on one song in McCartney’s catalog – from early Beatles to his solo work. Over the course of the podcast, listeners sit in on conversations between McCartney and the poet Paul Muldoon about the people, experiences, and art that inspired McCartney’s songwriting. The stories are richly interwoven with music and sounds contemporary to each song, providing a revelatory, entertaining window into a truly iconic creative genius. The first season is 24 episodes, but there is a treasure trove of tapes of more than 150 of McCartney’s songs.   Listen to McCartney: A Life in Lyrics on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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On the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I want to become a person who wrote songs and wanted to be someone whose life was in music. I'm Paul Mulder. And you're listening to McCartney, a life in lyrics. I'm a poet, a lover of the lyric poem and the song lyric. And over the past several years, I've been fortunate to spend time with one of the greatest songwriters of our era. And will you look at me? It's happened. I'm going on tour. I'm actually a performer.

Am I actually am a songwriter? My God. Well, that crept up on me. That is Sir Paul McCartney. Together we worked on the lyrics, 1956 to the present, which looked at more than 150 tracks from McCartney's songbook. You can't really talk about music because it's music.

It's purposely not talking. It's playing. It sounds. You know, so it's quite nice. It's quite liberal. Things slip out like they would in a session with a psychiatrist. It took us a long time to get through the songs we included in the book, and we recorded many hours of conversations,

drawing out details from McCartney's memory and hidden meanings from the music. My head was in a world. It was like going back to an old snapshot album, looking back on work I hadn't thought much about for quite a few years. For most of the conversations, we were sitting across from each other, looking at printouts of the lyrics.

Funnily enough, a lot of Americans thought you were selling puppies. Really? I see. Puppies. She's another interesting image a tray full of puppies. No, she's saying poppies, and though she feels as if she's in a play,

she is anyway. That's very sort of 60s. We never thought anyone would hear these tapes, most of which were captured on small recording devices, placed on the table in front of us, or, okay.

Occasionally, we recorded over video chat. You might hear the clinking of teacups, doorbell chimes, or us chatting over lunch. We were just logging the stories, preparing for the book and getting to know one another. And at the top of the page, I'd written another Leonard McCartney original. Yes. So you already had a sense, even though you were, what, 16? Yeah. You had a sense of you're being a team and that you would have a future to be. Yeah. I think it was more a sort of

wish than a sense. It was more this thing if you visualise it, it might come true. When we listened back to the tapes, we realised there was something very special happening in these conversations. They were in a sense an oral history of popular music. And sometimes when I'm singing, I'll be Fred to get that little voice.

It was McCartney unfiltered. It helps me reach a place. That's funny. I love that. That's just yes. Many times over the years, Paul McCartney has been asked to write his autobiography. It's a request he's always denied, never feeling it to be the right time. But as we ventured out on this journey, line by line,

it became clear how much of McCartney's biography is indeed embedded in the lyrics. Has this Liverpool sprung from its people, or have the people sprung from Liverpool? Going all the way back to his childhood in Liverpool. We're so sorry. Uncle Albert worked with my dad in cotton firm and they would get pissed. A lot of the uncles were we refer to as piss artists. They drink a bit? They would drink a little, yeah.

Uncle Albert would stand on the table and recite the Bible for some reason. Well, as he should. You know, keep everyone straight in the way of the light. Even if the lyrics aren't strictly autobiographical, every song in McCartney's repertoire is tied to vivid memories. His initial inspiration, his writing process, his performances. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, and then there were the meanings that snuck their way into the lyrics, the strange echoes and insights of which McCartney was not. aware when he put pen to paper, but has since come to recognize in his own work. I mean, the fact that I dreamed the song yesterday, it leads me to believe that it's not just quite as cut and dried as we think it is.

And so I say, you know, you just throw some words in a bowl and then pull them out, they will achieve some sort of resonance. Throughout our talks, we also realized how much we held in common. We both lived our childhoods in black and white, and watched the world change into technicolor. Boy, were you lucky to grow up in that? With that transition from black and white to color? Yes.

but you were an active force of that's one of the reasons why it did go to the colour was because of you. It's true. I mean obviously I see how it happened to me, not realising that in me expressing how it happened to me, I was making it happen. We went song by song, but as you will hear, our conversations often strayed from the songs themselves,

as McCartney reflected on the lyrics that tell the story of his life. Because it's an experiment, an ongoing experiment as you follow the trailer break-runs, you're surprised often to find yourself in the next line. This is McCartney, a life in lyrics, a master class, a memoir, and an improvised journey

with one of the most iconic figures in popular music. A win is a win. A win is a win. I don't care what I'm saying. Yep, that's me, Cliver Taylor the 4th. You might have seen the skits, my basketball and college football journey, or my career in sports media. Well, now I'm bringing all of that excitement to my brand new podcast,

The Clifers Show. This is a place for raw, unfilled conversations with athletes, creators, and voices that not only deserve to be heard, but celebrated. So let's get to it. Listen to The Clifford Show on the IHeard Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. And for more behind the scenes, follow at Clifford and at TikTok Podcast Network on TikTok. This week on the Sports Slice podcast, it's all about the NFL draft. And we've got a special guest.

The director of the NFL's East West Shrine Bowl, Eric Galco, joins the Sports Slice podcast to break down what really matters when evaluating draft prospects. From hidden traits teams look for to the biggest mistakes franchises make to the players flying under the the radar. This is the insight you won't hear anywhere else. If you want to understand the draft like an insider, you don't want to miss this episode. Listen to the Sports Slice Podcast on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. And for more, follow Timbo Slice of Life 12 and TikTok podcast network on TikTok. When a group of women discover they've all dated the same prolific con artist, they take matters into their own hands. I vowed, I will be his last target. going to get away with this. He's going to get what he deserves. We always say that trust your

girlfriends. Listen to the girlfriends. Trust me, babe, on the IHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is an IHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human.