Hi! My name is Paul Robert Thomas (a.k.a. ‘Paul Thomas’, a.k.a. ‘Paul Lyricist’) & I am a Song Lyricist (try saying that after a few beers:) and a producer! I was born & grew up in North London with Camden Town, Swiss Cottage, Primrose Hill & Regents Park as my playgrounds. I have some Welsh blood in me too as my mother & grandmother were from Wales
I believe that the act of creation, in this instance creating songs, is a gift from God!
My musical & lyrical roots are drawn from English Folk, American Folk & Blues, American Rock, and Christian/Gospel with influences from English nursery rhymes and church hymns.
I work with artists from all over the globe creating songs, irrespective of race, gender or religious views.
My main music site is at http://www.paullyrics.com where you read about my meeting with Andy Warhol, you can read the personal letter to me from the late great Robert Johnson’s grandson, and also Buckingham Palace sent me re. a song of ours, and while you’re there you’ll discover over 50 officially released albums, videos, articles, interviews and much more!
My Facebook music page is https://www.facebook.com/paullyricist and I am on ‘X’ at https://twitter.com/paullyricist and have I about 400,000+ ‘friends, followers & fans’ on various social networks – Facebook, Instagram, ‘X’, Reverbnation, Bandcamp etc.
My main occupation is as part of the songwriting team called ‘Les Paul’s’ (The Paul’s) at https://www.paullyrics.com/les-pauls-the-pauls-official-homepage and I also engage in solo work too producing my own albums using my song lyrics with music exclusively commercially licensed to me, and have recently released 3 Rockabilly music albums.
You can check out all my 52 music albums in my Music Discovery at https://www.paullyrics.com/pauls-music-discovery and you can also check out each of the 546 songs according to their music genre at https://www.paullyrics.com/a-z-recorded-lyrics/songs-categories
Thank you and wishing you all the best from Paul:)!
Hi Paul, we last interviewed you for your 4 March 2026 album release with ‘Les Paul’s’ (The Paul’s), called ‘Stormy Weather’ – what has been happening since?
Well, while we are currently working on our next studio ‘Les Paul’s’ (The Paul’s) blues/rock album to be called ‘Time To Get Real’, I have released a few solo albums, 5 solo albums to be precise all with my song lyrics. The 5th album was released on 19 May 2026 and as with them all by my record label London’s Swiss Cottage Recordz, with publishing by Studio City’s UL Sounds LLC together with Budde Music and with licensing by Florida’s Audiosparx.
That is an amazing output of songs, can you run us through the new albums?
Yes, there are 2 Jazz albums called, ‘Jazz is King’ and ‘All That Jazz’, and 3 Rockabilly albums called ‘Rockabilly Boy’, ‘ Rockabilly Girls’ and ‘Rockabilly Boys & Girls’.
Can you tell us more about each album?
Yes sure, the 2 authentic sounding Jazz albums are about relationships, love, loss and more, and each relates to today’s time as much as in the past.
I first heard Jazz songs with a cassette tape of Count Basie’s songs that my uncle had given to me when I was about 15 years old, together with a cassette tape of Frank Sinatra’s ‘Strangers in The Night’ collection of songs, as well as a single by Billie Holiday and a single by Buddy Holly, also an obscure single by Freddie Hart called ‘Some Do, Some Don’t’, and I was influenced by them all and by all of the music of the 60’s as well as by The Beatles of course, I then lived a stone’s throw from The Beatles Abbey Road Studio.
And the Rockabilly albums?
I created the 3 Rockabilly albums as I was born a few days after Elvis had his first national number one hit with ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ and almost 3 years to the day before Buddy Holly was killed in his fatal airplane crash at Clear Lake, I actually wrote a tribute bonus track on ‘Rockabilly Girls’ called, ‘Buddy is Gone’.
Were Elvis and Buddy Holly a major influence on you and your musical development?
Elvis influenced everyone up to his death and beyond to this day. One of the first records that I was ever given was a 45’ record by Buddy Holly called ‘It Doesn’t Matter Any More’ and ‘Raining in My Heart’ and my 2 most musical ‘Wow’ moments were on first hearing those songs and also the other songs that I later discovered by Buddy, and also upon hearing Dylan’s ‘Stuck Inside of Mobile’ and all the other songs on his ‘More Greatest Hits albums’.
Yes, I have heard these 5 albums and the Rockabilly albums particularly sound as though they were recorded in the 1950’s!
The Rockabilly albums all have authentic sounding music and vocals but with lyrics that are somewhat a deeper socio-political critique wrapped inside the Rockabilly rhythm loaded with weight, wit and moral complexity and the songs are more about today then they are about yesterday.
Thanks so much Paul and we’ll be looking out for more of your songs, where can we hear more of your work?
I have just updated by music website and you can check out my 52 albums and my 556 mostly officially released songs on my music website at www.paullyrics.com
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