McCartney Times

Many things contribute to a great songwriting partnership. Naturally, talent is fundamental to the entire endeavour, but friction is the second most essential piece in the puzzle. In any partnership, whether marriage or that between centre-backs, twosomes function by each component, filling in the other’s gaps, providing a foil and making the sum of its parts stronger for it. In music, this has played out in the relationships between everyone from David Gilmour and Roger Waters to Joe Strummer and Mick Jones, but its significance was most apparent between John Lennon and Paul McCartney.There’s no doubt that the two primary songwriters in The Beatles formed the most influential composing partnership of all time, but that’s not to say they weren’t different people; they were. While both were united in their talent and suffered immense hardships in the death of their mothers when young, Lennon was always the hot-headed one and deemed himself the Alpha of the band, whereas McCartney was characteristically more balanced and level-headed. Of course, no one’s perfect, but in several ways, the pair were a personal embodiment of yin and yang.

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Source: Paul McCartney on the one “miraculous” thing about John Lennon