Introducing: McCartney: A Life in Lyrics

Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, Music

4.5 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Today we are sharing a very special project we've been working on at Pushkin, a new podcast with the one and only, Sir Paul McCartney. The show’s called McCartney: A Life in Lyrics and it's full of insightful conversations between Paul McCartney and his friend, the Irish poet Paul Muldoon.

Together they taped years of conversations digging into Paul’s lyrics and songwriting process. And because it’s impossible to separate the art from the man, a lot of McCartney's personal life gets revealed along the way, like insight into his family life in Liverpool, the success and breakup of the Beatles, Wings and so much more.

McCartney: A Life in Lyrics dropped with two episodes today—one on The Beatles "Eleanor Rigby," and the one we're presenting here for you today on "Back In the U.S.S.R."

If you love music and songwriting and have ever wanted to be a fly on the wall for in-depth conversations with a Beatle, then McCartney: A Life in Lyrics won’t disappoint. You can binge the entire first season now by subscribing to Pushkin+ on Apple Podcasts.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, it's Justin Richmond, over the last year I've been working on an absolute
0:16.0	dream project over here at Pushkin.
0:18.8	Making a podcast for the one and only Sir Paul McCartney.
0:22.6	The show's called McCartney a Life in lyrics.
0:25.5	It's available everywhere today.
0:27.7	It's full of insightful conversations between McCartney and his friend, the poet Paul
0:32.0	Muldoon.
0:33.3	The two of them taped years of conversations digging into Paul's lyrics and songwriting
0:37.8	process and because it's hard to separate the art from the man, a lot of his personal
0:42.7	life gets revealed too.
0:44.7	Like his relationship with his family in Liverpool, the success and breakup of the Beatles, his
0:49.7	time with Wings and so much more.
0:53.0	McCartney a Life in lyrics dropped with two episodes today, one on Eleanor Rigby and
0:58.0	the one I'm presenting to you here now, on Back in the USSR.
1:02.5	If you love music and songwriting and have ever wanted the chance to be a fly on the
1:06.8	wall for a conversation with the Beatles, then McCartney a Life in lyrics will not disappoint.
1:12.9	To binge all the first season right away, subscribe to Pushkin Plus on Apple Podcasts and
1:17.6	all 12 episodes will be there waiting for you.
1:21.3	In the meantime, here's Paul Muldoon and Paul McCartney on Back in the USSR for their
1:26.2	new podcast McCartney, A Life in lyrics.
1:29.5	Enjoy.
1:31.2	At the height of the Cold War, with the closing of the border, Soviet divisions in East
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