McCartney Times

It’s 1966, and Paul McCartney has penned one of the Beatle’s most poignant tracks as the band transition from ruling the world’s stages to pushing the boundaries of rock arrangement and recording technology.Or rather, according to John Lennon in 1980, “It’s his first verse, and the rest of the verses are basically mine. But the way he did it was… he knew he’d got the song, so rather than ask me, ‘John, do these lyrics’ because, by that period, he didn’t want to say that to me, okay…”As Lennon recalls the song’s completion in a 1980 Playboy interview, it’s clear that while the facts may be in dispute – in 1997 McCartney said “John helped me on a few words but I’d put it down 80–20 to me” – the collaboration between pop’s greatest songwriters was already strained, at least as far as John was concerned.

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Source: John Lennon on completing Eleanor Rigby’s lyrics for Paul McCartney: “It’s his first verse, and the rest of the verses are basically mine” | MusicRadar