Thursday, April 17, 2008

Paperback Writer

classicStory about the creation of the Beatles' song "Paperback Writer", with a aside on the topic of Penguin books.

PAPERBACK WRITER WAS written by Paul McCartney in the early spring of 1966. “Penguin paperbacks was what I really thought of, the archetypal paperback,” McCartney reflected when I asked what his inspiration was. Penguin was almost a generic term for paperbacks in the early Sixties: they had such market dominance that people used the word to mean any paperbound book.

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