Paul made plenty of mistakes in the book. Since John has died, Paul still thinks about him whenever he is writing songs and wonders "What will John think of that line." I found all of the things he had to say about his relationship with John to be very fascinating. After that, John and Paul remained friends until John died. One thing I didn't know was that they met together in 1972 and in-person decided to stop fighting with one another. He was especially hurt because John seemed to have been so happy when he asked for the divorce.
He obviously was very hurt when John asked for the "divorce" from the Beatles. The majority of his work is the influence of his mother and father. He got his a lot of inspiration for lyrics or names in his songs from such a wide variety of places: old songs from his childhood, plays he has seen, Greek mythology, artwork he has seen, etc etc. So he doesn't feel as if it is Paul McCartney performing, but this other person. I also learned that when he writes or sings a song, he sort of feels like he channeling a particular performer such as Little Richard or Fred Astair. I learned that Paul sees the days of the week as different colors. There are also a lot of little nuggets of information to discover. It is nice to have them all together in one place. Most of the stories told here are well known and well-loved by those of us who have followed Paul's career during the past 60 years. I think we read about Paul meeting John for the first time 3 times. He repeats some of the same stories throughout both volumes. Paul obviously did not "write" the book in alphabetical order. I am accustomed to reading through the history of Paul McCartney in order and it was a different look at his life and his music to go in alphabetically. So you could easily read a song written in the 1950s and then the next song be written within the past five years.
The book is organized alphabetically by song instead of chronologically. In this pair of books, Paul goes through most of his hit (and many non-hit) songs and explains his thoughts behind writing them while telling a bit of his own personal history along the way. However, he has given us his authorized biography, Many Years From Now by Barry Miles and now we have The Lyrics. Paul McCartney is never going to write his autobiography.
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