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“I’m actually quite a fan of ‘ordinary,’” writes Paul McCartney in “The Lyrics.” “I hope in many ways it defines me, and so also many of the songs I’ve written.”

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“THE LYRICS: 1956 TO THE PRESENT”

By Paul McCartney; edited by Paul Muldoon
Liveright ($100)

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Such observations are amongst the great delights of this two-volume set of books in which McCartney defines his own artistic legacy, embracing both his role as a likable everyman as well as an expectation-defying, literary-minded artist. McCartney comes off as charmingly self-aware and rightfully unapologetic about his impressive body of song which can vary from plain-spoken to surreal, poetic to perverse. No surprise then, that McCartney amends the above statement with, “Don’t get me wrong; I like extraordinary people and things, but if people can be great and ordinary at the same time, that to me is kind of special.” And there he is, in a nutshell.

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