McCartney Times

The Beatles have written a handbook on how to create love songs for the pop market. From the minute that ‘I Want to Hold Your Hand’ started invading the airwaves, John Lennon and Paul McCartney began delivering a clinic on how to dissect love, from the innocent teenage romances of their early years to the more nuanced takes on it in their later period. Whereas Lennon and McCartney could write love songs at surface level, George Harrison was always more nuanced.Starting with ‘Don’t Bother Me’, Harrison’s greatest Beatles songs were about breaking down the standard love song format, either through breakups on ‘I Need You’ or letting someone down easily on ‘If I Needed Someone’. As Harrison began to enter his classic period, ‘Long Long Long’ emerged as a different take on the traditional love formula.

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