McCartney Times

There was a noticeable shift in the way John Lennon was writing songs by the end of 1964. Prior to that time, Lennon had a knack for writing incredibly catchy and memorable, if somewhat anonymous, pop songs. Lennon was a gifted wordsmith and melody writer, but he rarely, if ever, wrote songs about his own life and his personal feelings. Hits like ‘I Want to Hold Your Hand’ and ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ were beloved classics, but they had little to do with Lennon the human being outside of The Beatles.A variety of factors changed the way Lennon wrote. For one, meeting Bob Dylan in the summer of 1964 gave Lennon an appreciation for folk music and more poetic songwriting. The exhaustion he felt coming to grips with Beatlemania also started to creep into his writing, with more negative emotions coming to the fore. On Beatles For Sale, Lennon let his guard down and shared his struggles with the public for the first time.

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