McCartney Times

For whatever reason, John Lennon was relatively dismissive of many songs he wrote during his tenure with The Beatles. Whether it’s early material like ‘It’s Only Love’ with its “terrible lyric”, psychedelic songs like ‘Good Morning Good Morning’, beloved singles like ‘Eight Days a Week’, later period compositions like the “nonsense song” ‘Dig a Pony’ or hidden gems like ‘Hey Bulldog’, nothing was sacred to Lennon.

Still, he wasn’t all doom and gloom. Lennon would occasionally complement the material of his songwriting partner, Paul McCartney, and held respect for some of his own writing as well. Lennon’s main point of concern, inexplicably, was that while he could stomach gobbledygook lyrics, he didn’t consider himself the best melody writer.

“There was a period when I thought I didn’t write melodies, that Paul wrote those and I just wrote straight, shouting rock ‘n’ roll,” Lennon recalled in his later years. Lennon was incredibly dismissive of his earlier compositions, with songs like ‘I Call Your Name’ and ‘Little Child’ being lumped into his own sardonic self-assessments.

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