The Beatles flop Paul McCartney turned into a solo hit
john Lennon once noted that The Beatles‘ 1968 LP The White Album was the least collaborative record the ‘fab four’ ever made. It marked a distinct shift in the dynamics the group had once relied upon, and there was a sense that John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr were drifting apart both as people and as a creative unit.
That being said, the album wasn’t entirely devoid of collaboration. It’s just that everyone was getting a little weary of compromising their vision for the sake of the other members. In the book Lennon on Lennon: Conversations with John Lennon, John discusses the creation of The White Album in a 1968 interview: “In India, we were writing a bit together,” he begins “But this album we wrote least of all together. Just ’cause of circumstances and all that, y’know. Or maybe we didn’t feel like it. I don’t know what.”
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