[libs_kma]

I looked and looked and looked for all of McCartney's academic achievements, or just anything that could explain how he got so smart, but I couldn't find a thing..

So what...did someone name a library after him or something? Is that how he knows what a library is?

[Louis Foxwell]

Now I undeerstant Paul’s comment. He (and Barry) thinks a library is a place that plays music and gives awards to performers.

[sodpoodle]

some puffery from Wiki. (had a collaborator on a children’s book - big wooo)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_McCartney

Writing and poetry
When McCartney was young, his mother read him poems and encouraged him to read books. McCartney’s father was interested in crosswords and invited the two young McCartneys (Paul and his brother Michael) to solve them with him, so as to increase their “word power”.[101] McCartney was later inspired—in his school years—by Alan Durband, who was McCartney’s English literature teacher at the Liverpool Institute.[102] Durband was a co-founder and fund-raiser at the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool, where Willy Russell also worked, and introduced McCartney to Geoffrey Chaucer’s works.[103] McCartney later took his A-level exams, but passed only one subject—Art.[104][105]

In 2001 McCartney published ‘Blackbird Singing’, a volume of poems, some of which were lyrics to his songs, and gave readings in Liverpool and New York City.[106] Some of them were serious: “Here Today” (about Lennon) and some humorous (”Maxwell’s Silver Hammer”).[107] In the foreword of the book, McCartney explained that when he was a teenager, he had “an overwhelming desire” to have a poem of his published in the school magazine. He wrote something “deep and meaningful”, but it was rejected, and he feels that he has been trying to get some kind of revenge ever since. His first “real poem” was about the death of his childhood friend, Ivan Vaughan.[106]

In October 2005, McCartney released a children’s book called High In The Clouds: An Urban Furry Tail. In a press release publicising the book, McCartney said, “I have loved reading for as long as I can remember”, singling out Treasure Island as a childhood favourite.[108] McCartney collaborated with author Philip Ardagh and animator Geoff Dunbar to write the book.[109]