Speaking on the McCartney: A Life In Lyrics podcast episode about the band’s famous ‘Back in the U.S.S.R.’ track, McCartney opened up about the ban.
The Beatles music, along with other Western artists, was banned from being imported or played in Russia from the 1960s until the 1980s.
He said: “Everyone in Russia goes back to the Beatles period and remembers having to smuggle records or it was all very you know, little rooms where you could play and you didn’t want people to know.
“You didn’t want the authorities to know that you were listening to this forbidden group, which really, we loved the idea of that – that we were getting smuggled along with Levi’s jeans. This was like true cultural arrival.”
Paul McCartney's 'The Lyrics: 1956 To The Present' To Be Released In Paperback On November 7, a one-volume edition of Paul McCartney's "THE Lyrics: 1956 to the Present" will be published in paperback, featuring additional commentaries.
The best-selling book will feature seven new song commentaries from McCartney: "Bluebird," "Day Tripper," "English Tea," "Every Night," "Hello, Goodbye," "Magical Mystery Tour" and "Step Inside Love." RTT News reports.
"THE Lyrics: 1956 to the Present" was originally published in 2021 to worldwide acclaim.
The book covers 66 years of McCartney's musical career, through 161 songs — from the early days in Liverpool, the global pop cultural domination of The Beatles, the '70s radio gold of Wings, and his prolific and still peaking solo career.
Arranged alphabetically to provide a kaleidoscopic rather than chronological account, "The Lyrics" establishes definitive texts of these songs for the first time and describes the circumstances in which they were written, the people and places that inspired them.
Presented with it is a treasure trove of material from McCartney's personal archive - drafts, letters, and photographs - never seen before the 2021 publication.
McCartney has written a personal foreword to the book, edited and introduced by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon.
"Based on conversations I had with Paul McCartney over a five year period, these commentaries are as close to an autobiography as we may ever come," said Muldoon. "His insights into his own artistic process confirm a notion at which we had but guessed — that Paul McCartney is a major literary figure who draws upon, and extends, the long tradition of poetry in English."
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Recently Paul McCartney was at Tribeca Film Festival where He joined Conan O’Brien at the BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center to promote his new book, a collection of unearthed photographs titled “1964: Eyes of the Storm : 'Lennon Had a Really Tragic Life. I Always Admired the Way He Dealt With It’
The Wings frontman shared that his late friend had a particularly sad upbringing.
“[John] had a really tragic life,” McCartney recalled to O’Brien, according to Entertainment Tonight. “As a kid, his mother was decreed to not be good enough to bring him up. … His father had left the home when John was 3. So that’s not too wonderful.”
“John grew up with these sort of little minor tragedies throughout his life,” the 80-year-old musician continued. “It made me realize why he had that vulnerability. I always admired the way he dealt with it because I’m not sure I would deal with the stuff he went through that well.”
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