McCartney Times

John Lennon had many heroes and, in truth, quite a few more enemies in the music industry thanks to his inability to keep his tongue from sharing his most inner thoughts. One person had the pleasure of being both a hero and an enemy to the Beatle after getting tangled in a lawsuit over the ‘Imagine’ singer’s “favourite Lennon track”.

“If you had to give rock ‘n’ roll another name, you might call it Chuck Berry,” John Lennon once said, and it’s a point that anyone with even a passing knowledge of the history of the genre can subscribe to. With his enigmatic duck-walking jams, Berry was the lynchpin that made rock and roll feel possible. Simply put, without Chuck Berry, you can kiss goodbye to the whole genre.

He is the forefather of modern rock ‘n’ roll and one of the primary influences throughout the early stages of The Beatles’ songwriting career. It wasn’t just Lennon in the band who was obsessed with Berry. Paul McCartney once commented, “To us, he was a magician making music that was exotic, yet normal, at the same time. We learnt so many things from him, which led us into a dream world of rock ‘n’ roll music.”

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