McCartney Times

Paul McCartney and John Lennon may have shared bowl cuts during their early Beatles days, but the pair were like apples and oranges in real life. Their interests and personalities often clashed due to differing upbringings — family-man McCartney liked to “charm” the press whereas Lennon (once a shoplifter) often “insult[ed] reporters,” per The Atlantic. Their differences also extended to their musical abilities with McCartney said to be “meticulous and organized” whereas Lennon was most creative “in chaos.” But while they had contrasting ideas, Lennon’s first wife Cynthia Lennon suggested they were like yin and yang when she said, “John needed Paul’s attention to detail and persistence. Paul needed John’s anarchic, lateral thinking.”

This sometimes dysfunctional bond ended up seeing the pair release almost 200 songs under “Lennon-McCartney,” per NPR. However, it’s not to say that they were 50/50 when it came to each song’s composition — in fact, it’s probably naive to suggest that, according to The Atlantic. Back in 1990, rock critic Greg Kot wrote that McCartney and Lennon’s “‘partnership’ was more of a competition than a collaboration,” per The Atlantic. This became all the more evident in the band’s latter years as the pair claimed ownership over songs they had jointly released. They went from gushing over one another when they released “I Want to Hold Your Hand,” with Lennon calling it “eyeball to eyeball” — to McCartney later saying he wrote “the whole melody” of “‘Eleanor Rigby’ & ‘In My Life,'” per Paul McCartney pod.

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