McCartney Times

By the time The Beatles made The White Album, the cracks were beginning to show. Having spent much of their young lives joined at the hip, it’s no wonder John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr were keen to develop a sense of individuality and to pull away from the homogenising forces that had lumped them together as ‘The Fab Four’. The Beatles reacted to this pervading sense of disassociation in a variety of ways, one of which was to retreat to India, where the group stayed with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and engaged in a course of transcendental meditation.

However, no amount of om chanting could stop the ever-widening rifts between Lennon and McCartney, who, after Sgt. Pepper’s, had started to move away from their traditional songwriting partnership. Keen to retain authorial control over their respective songs, the pair began to demonstrate a territorial approach. The new sense of individuality within Lennon and McCartney’s songwriting gave them greater freedom to explore but increasingly led to confrontations and disagreements. Take McCartney’s ‘Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da’, for example.

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