McCartney Times

The initial friendship between Paul McCartney and John Lennon was that of two creative soulmates finally finding each other. Both had friends who liked music, rhyming jokes and skipping school, but McCartney and Lennon had never met anyone who had connected on the same level of ambition and artistic desire as each other. The songs began to naturally follow in quick succession.

But it wasn’t just songs: the two would share drawings, poetry, short stories, and impressions with each other as well. Lennon was a voracious writer, obsessed with wordplay and wit, while McCartney was quick to improvise jaunty tunes or a comedic double act for them to keep themselves entertained. But their ambitions grew beyond song and dance – they wanted to write a play. So that’s what they did… for about a day.

“For years I’ve been telling people that me and John wrote a play,” McCartney explained in a recent interview with John Wilson on the BBC Radio 4 programme This Cultural Life. “We were just knocking round at my house and having a cup of tea or whatever and we decided ‘we’ll write a play!’ We only got four pages in.”

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Source: The play Paul McCartney wrote with John Lennon before The Beatles [SUN]