Exclusive: A First Look At New Podcast, 'McCartney: A Life In Lyrics'

iHeartPodcasts and Pushkin will debut the much anticipated McCartney: A Life In Lyrics podcast. The 12-part series, based on the best-selling book, is hosted by the poet Paul Muldoon, who explains in the first episode, which I was given exclusively for first listen, "We worked together on a book looking at more than 150 of his songs. And we recorded many hours of our conversations. This is McCartney: A Life In Lyrics; a master class, a memoir and an improvised journey with one of the most iconic figures in popular music. Each episode is centered about the writing of a particular song and the circumstances surrounding it."

Episode one, premiering today, focuses on the song "Eleanor Rigby." But before that, McCartney offers some insight into his love of writing. An aspiring poet who was friends with the iconic poet Allen Ginsberg ("Howl"), McCartney exclaims at the outset of the 19-minute episode, "Oh my God, I wanted to become a person who wrote songs. And I wanted to be someone whose life was in music."

Source: Steve Baltin/forbes.com