Title: Blackbird Singing: Poems and Lyrics 1965-1999
Author: Paul McCartney
Release Date: 19th March 2001 (UK) / 23rd April 2001 (USA)
Publisher: Faber & Faber Ltd (UK) / W. W. Norton (USA)
Copyright: © 2001 MPL Communications Ltd
Pages: 164
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 0 571 20789 8

To many readers some of this book will be instantly recognisable as the songs that have formed the backdrop to every generation since the 1960s. Their lyrics have been learned, almost subliminally, by heart: ‘Eleanor Rigby’, ‘Band on the Run’, ‘She’s Leaving Home’, ‘Penny Lane’…But among the familiar are poems that have never before been seen. Sharing the preoccupations of the songs and including moving elegies to Paul’s wife, Linda, they give us unique access to the inner life of one of the most influential figures in popular culture of the last fifty years. They demonstrate, against an acknowledgement of the essential solitariness of existence, an irrepressible belief in the power of words and music to make things better.

Edited and with an introduction by Adrian Mitchell.
Cover drawing by Paul McCartney
Author photography by Mary McCartney