McCartney Times

Before the songwriting partnership between John Lennon and Paul McCartney truly took off at the end of their teenage years, the two future Beatles were experimenting with writing songs on their own. One of McCartney’s first, ‘I Lost My Little Girl’, came after the death of his mother, which subsequently opened the floodgates of creativity for a young McCartney. Not long after, he came up with a soft ballad that would later be taken on by his most famous band, ‘I’ll Follow the Sun’.

“I wrote that in my front parlour in Forthlin Road,” McCartney told Mark Lewishon. “I was about 16. ‘I’ll Follow The Sun’ was one of those very early ones. I seem to remember writing it just after I’d had the flu and I had that cigarette – I smoked when I was 16 – the cigarette that’s the ‘cotton wool’ one. You don’t smoke while you’re ill but after you get better you have a cigarette and it’s terrible, it tastes like cotton wool, horrible. I remember standing in the parlour, with my guitar, looking out through the lace curtains of the window, and writing that one.”

Read more, click link below…

Source: The Beatles song written by a teenage Paul McCartney