McCartney Times

When The Beatles were tasked with writing a song for Britain’s part in the first simultaneous global TV broadcast Our World, there was one member of the band who jumped at the chance. While this type of challenge has seen many artists falter, with written-to-order songs for international pageantry often coming off as banal and insincere, John Lennon had been writing prescribed hits for five years.He and Paul McCartney were the ideal candidates to compose an on-brand piece with mass appeal. But Lennon even had the jump on his regular songwriting partner, given that he was naturally drawn to the idea of delivering a message to the masses through music. It’s an approach he would adopt more frequently in the early years of his solo career on singles like ‘Give Peace a Chance’, ‘Power to the People’, ‘Imagine’ and ‘Happy Xmas (War Is Over)’.

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