McCartney Times

John Lennon and Paul McCartney were rarely writing songs together by 1969. While McCartney comments in the docuseries The Beatles: Get Back that he and Lennon were still a team during this time, it was increasingly clear their sensibilities and styles were diverging. McCartney had whimsical tracks like ‘Maxwell’s Silver Hammer’ in large numbers, while Lennon struggled to even finish a single song and dismissed the lighter fare as “granny shit”.

Perhaps Lennon was slightly jealous of McCartney’s ability to conjure up songs out of the blue. Even though he’s not in the room at the time, Lennon must have heard McCartney’s story about writing ‘Back Seat of My Car’ overnight and brining it into Twickenham studios the next day. George Harrison did the same with ‘I Me Mine’, and Lennon gave that track some light ridicule when Harrison presented it.

McCartney took longer when it came to another song, however, as he formulated the details of ‘Teddy Boy’. Originally conceived in India during The Beatles’ trip in 1968, ‘Teddy Boy’ was refined and finished enough for McCartney to bring the track into the band’s rehearsals at Twickenham, but the atmosphere was tense and not particularly productive. Harrison left the group the following day, and all recordings came to a halt until the band could regroup.

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