Blackbird Singing : Poems and Lyrics, 1965-1999
by Paul McCartney, Adrian Mitchell

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• ISBN13: 9780393020496
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Summary of Blackbird Singing : Poems and Lyrics, 1965-1999

"McCartney writes as freely?and often as beautifully?as a blackbird sings....[He] is a genius with the common touch."?Stephen Logan, The Sunday Times [London]

True, some of the lyrics appear trite on paper--"Heart of the Country" and "Mull of Kintyre" are notable offenders. Even "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" seems naked and frail without the rousing brass section. But McCartney's deeper vulnerability comes to the surface in "Dinner Tickets," a poem about his childhood. And "Standing Stone" recounts a gutsy fable about a man using the power of imagination to fend off the enemy: he erects a standing stone, "a weathered finger to the sky" and learns to be "at peace with peace." "Irish Language" boasts a rare streak of irony as the narrator admires the way "those Irish chappies" swill the language around in their mouths and dribble it through their fingers. The song ends with a beautifully timed punch line: "The Beatles were a bunch of Micks." Blackbird Singing closes with poems dedicated to the author's late wife that are tender, sparse, and startlingly honest. --Cherry Smyth

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