Theirs is a culture of respecting documentation and literacy. How can individuals with no University degrees like Wayne Rooney and Paul McCartney, easily, cough books? Most of our local artists and stars claim to have not published anything because they did not reach higher education, hence find the whole idea of writing and publishing books too overwhelming. Why am I saying that? And why did I use the word ENVY? His book, out before Christmas is going to cost at least 70 pounds almost 100 dollars, per copy.Ī man who never got a degree. Since then I have never stopped.”Ī long quote from a guy who has 150 published songs. And these songs span my entire life, because at the age of 14 when I acquired my first guitar in our little house in Liverpool, my natural instinct was to start writing songs. What I do have is my songs- hundreds of them- which serve the same purpose. Some people, when they get to a certain age, like to refer to a diary to recall day to day events from the past, but I have no such notebooks. But the one thing I have always managed to do, whether at home or on the road, is write new songs. Nearing 80 years, the Liverpool multi instrumentalist, confessed he has always been asked to write his autobiography.Ĭlarifying, the veteran composer said: “Usually I was raising a family or I was on tour, which has never been an ideal situation of concentration. Two weeks ago, London’s Sunday Times published a long article about a new forthcoming book by McCartney. McCartney’s, Yesterday, is one of the multiple recorded pop tunes, globally. The main composers were John Lennon – assassinated by a psychopath in 1980 aged 40 and Paul McCartney. In those ten years, they churned out memorable hits.making them leaders of number ones – twenty in total.Īnyone over 50 might recall Radio Tanzania (or other African broadcasters) dishing out Yesterday, She loves you, Obladi Obladah, Let It Be, Penny Lane, etc. His tunes were mostly written with the famous Beatles band that reigned from 1960 till 1970. McCartney (might not be known to the younger generation of music lovers), but he is regarded as the richest living songwriter, estimated to value 1 billion pounds.
This column, once, mentioned Wayne Rooney, the footballer who not even aged forty yet has already released two autobiographies of his very successful life.īut Rooney is average, compared to the genius musician Paul McCartney. I wish our local stars (past and present) would be like some overseas stars, here.
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