{"id":2306,"date":"2012-11-14T15:44:10","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T15:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/11\/14\/paul-weller-i-destroy-all-my-lyrics-every-time-i-finish-an-album\/"},"modified":"2012-11-14T15:44:10","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T15:44:10","slug":"paul-weller-i-destroy-all-my-lyrics-every-time-i-finish-an-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2012\/11\/14\/paul-weller-i-destroy-all-my-lyrics-every-time-i-finish-an-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Weller: &#8216;I destroy all my lyrics every time I finish an album&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/8\/8a\/Paul_Weller_at_the_No_Cactus_Festival_in_Belgium.jpg\/220px-Paul_Weller_at_the_No_Cactus_Festival_in_Belgium.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"116\" height=\"155\" \/><br \/>Paul Weller has admitted that he destroys all his lyric books after finishing a new album. The ex-Jam frontman said he found it therapeutic to get rid of his song notes and start from scratch after completing every project.   <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>He told BBC Radio 4: &#8220;I would rip up or burn my books. I&#8217;d always have a book of lyrics and once I finished the record, I&#8217;d destroy them so they were kind of, that&#8217;s it, gone, it&#8217;s kind of like the next step, let&#8217;s all start again, a fresh canvas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He then admitted that he now regrets destroying his lyric books and admitted that he could have made a fortune from them, adding: &#8220;[They] could go to Sotheby&#8217;s or something.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Weller will release a new EP, titled &#8216;Dragonfly&#8217;, next month. The six-track collection, which is set for release on December 17, will feature songs taken from the recording sessions of his latest studio album, &#8216;Sonik Kicks&#8217;. <\/p>\n<p>The tracklisting for &#8216;Dragonfly&#8217; is as follows:<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Dragonfly&#8217;<br \/> &#8216;Lay Down Your Weary Burden&#8217;<br \/> &#8216;Portal To The Past&#8217;<br \/> &#8216;Devotion&#8217;<br \/> &#8216;We Got A Lot&#8217; <br \/>&#8216;The Piper&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source: NME<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Weller has admitted that he destroys all his lyric books after finishing a new&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}