Paul McCartney is launching his own podcast this Fall.
Fans can listen to McCartney: A Life in Lyrics beginning September 20 on all major podcast platforms. The podcast is a companion piece to the icon’s book The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present, which came out in November 2021.
The book was a work between Sir Paul and poet Paul Muldoon, who interviewed the former Beatle for the release. Muldoon said in a statement, “When we listened back to the tapes, we realized there was something very special happening in these conversations. It was McCartney unfiltered.”
The first season will feature 12 episodes. Each episode will examine the stories behind some of Macca’s biggest songs from his career. The songs highlight in season one include “Eleanor Rigby,” “Back in the USSR,” “Let It Be,” “When Winter Comes,” “Penny Lane,” “Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey,” “Here Today,” “Live and Let Die,” “Magical Mystery Tour,” “Jenny Wren,” “Too Many People,” and “Helter Skelter.”
A preview of McCartney: A Life in Lyrics can be heard here.
Paul McCartney – His 50 Best Post-Beatles Songs, Ranked
If Paul McCartney retired from music after the Beatles broke up, no one would blame him. How do you follow up nearly a decade of being in a band that changed music, changed culture, and maybe changed the world?
But McCartney clearly had a lot of fuel left in the tank. In the decades since, he’s been a formidable force in music: he dominated radio in the ’70s with Wings, he was ubiquitous on MTV in the early days of the cable channel and has collaborated with Kanye West and Rihanna, the surviving members of Nirvana, Diana Krall, David Gilmour, George Michael, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder and Elvis Costello, among others. He’s delivered classic theme songs for Cameron Crowe and James Bond, and besides recording scores of rock and pop albums, he’s also composed classical music and done experimental electronic music under the name The Fireman.
On December 18, he’s releasing McCartney III. Like 1970’s McCartney and 1980’s McCartney II, it was recorded entirely by McCartney — this was his “quarantine album.” Given that some of his recent songs (“Home Tonight,” “Fuh You,” “New”) made this list, we’re sure we’re going to have to update this one pretty soon.
