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Packed full of strange surprises, playful Beatles references, and heart-warming family fun.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCelebrate the fun grandparents and their grandchildren can have together, even if there is a bit of distance keeping them apart.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for New York Times Number 1 Bestseller \u003ci\u003eHey Grandude!\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA charming tale from the music legend - with the most glorious illustrations that will be enjoyed by old and young - THE SUN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInspired by his own experience of being a 'Grandude' of eight, the picture book sees four youngsters and their grandfather travel the world on a host of magical adventures. 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Dozens of vignettes re-create the working-class Liverpool of McCartney’s youth, where delivery boys ran parcels on docks, as in ‘On My Way to Work,’ and elderly ladies in the neighbourhood inspired ‘Eleanor Rigby.’ McCartney also introduces us to his early literary influences, among them Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll and Allen Ginsberg, as well as Alan Durband, his beloved English teacher, and his mother, Mary, who passed away when he was just fourteen – and whose memory has infused his work ever since.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYet the two most powerful presences in \u003ci\u003eThe Lyrics \u003c\/i\u003eafter the author himself are his songwriting partner, John Lennon, and his ‘Golden Earth Girl,’ Linda Eastman McCartney. Here McCartney describes how he met John at a church fête in 1957; their adventures with George Harrison and Ringo Starr in the early 1960s; and how, at the end of the decade, they, and The Beatles, broke up. Thus began a second act of now more than fifty years, with Linda and family life as driving forces – inspiring songs from ‘Maybe I’m Amazed,’ written just after the breakup of The Beatles, to the 2012 ballad ‘My Valentine,’ addressed to McCartney’s wife and partner, Nancy Shevell McCartney.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdited and introduced by Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Paul Muldoon, and enhanced by more than a hundred images from McCartney’s personal archives – including handwritten texts, mementos, and photographs – and seven new song commentaries, \u003ci\u003eThe Lyrics\u003c\/i\u003e is a book for the ages, and the definitive literary and visual record of one of the greatest songwriters of all time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43205127930034,"sku":"9781802064223","price":24.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":57685874770293,"sku":"9780241519332","price":75.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781802064223_5ffa6416-915a-4ceb-902f-844667014765.jpg?v=1792599096"},{"product_id":"9780241758571","title":"Wings","description":"**A Financial Times Book of the Year**A landmark account of Paul McCartney’s triumphant musical reinvention in the 1970s and the rise of one of the decade’s most iconic bandsThis is the story, in their own words, of a band that came to define a generation. Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run tells the madcap history of Paul McCartney and his newly formed band, from their humble beginnings in the early 1970s to their dissolution barely a decade later. Drawn from over 500,000 words of interviews with McCartney, family and band members, and other key participants, with a cast of characters including John Lennon, Ringo Starr, George Harrison, Chrissie Hynde, Mick Jagger and more, Wings recounts the musical odyssey taken by a man searching for his identity in the aftermath of The Beatles’ breakup. Soon joined by his wife – American photographer Linda McCartney – on keyboard and vocals, drummer Denny Seiwell and guitarist Denny Laine, McCartney sowed the seeds for a new band that would provide the soundtrack to the decade.   Organised chronologically around McCartney, RAM and nine Wings albums, the narrative begins when a twenty-seven-year-old superstar, rumoured to be dead, fled with his new wife to a remote sheep farm in Scotland amid a sea of legal and personal rows. Being there gave McCartney time to create and was where this new band emerged. Wings then follows the group as they play unannounced shows at university halls, tour in a sheared-off double-decker bus with their children, survive a robbery on the streets of Nigeria, and eventually perform blockbuster stadium shows on their world tour, all while producing some of the most enduring music of the time.   With extraordinary recollections collected by Oscar-winning director Morgan Neville and edited into a genre-defining oral history by Ted Widmer, Wings transports the reader to the grit and glamour of the 1970s. Introduced with a heartfelt foreword by McCartney, Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run contains 150 black-and-white and colour photographs, many previously unseen, as well as timelines, a gigography and a full discography, in an art form all its own.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":57682764726645,"sku":"9781802069273","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":55896407834997,"sku":"9780241758571","price":35.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781802069273_c8177025-6b02-49dd-9dea-7eac651349c0.jpg?v=1792511695"},{"product_id":"9780241375662","title":"Hey Grandude!","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew York Times No.1 Bestseller - now including a story CD performed by the author, bringing the magic to life.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the legendary Paul McCartney - an action-packed picture-book adventure celebrating the fun that grandparents and grandchildren can have when their imaginations run wild.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGrandude is a one-of-a-kind adventurer - a Mary Poppins for the modern day! 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They intimately record the months towards the end of 1963 and beginning of 1964 when Beatlemania erupted in the UK and, after the band's first visit to the USA, they became the most famous people on the planet. The photographs are McCartney's personal record of this explosive time, when he was, as he puts it, in the 'Eyes of the Storm'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e1964: Eyes of the Storm\u003c\/i\u003e presents 275 of McCartney's photographs from the six cities of these intense, legendary months - Liverpool, London, Paris, New York, Washington, D.C. and Miami - and many never-before-seen portraits of John, George and Ringo. 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