The Beatles song Paul McCartney called a “blessing”

Some of the best songs ever written are usually the ones that don’t feel like work to get down on paper. As much as people like to agonise over specific words until they have the final product down in writing, the best way to work usually involves surrendering to the muse and letting it take you wherever it wants. Paul McCartney does have a habit of working at his craft until he has a perfect tune by the end, but he could admit when some of his best Beatles songs came together by happenstance.Because when he and John Lennon first started making their own tunes, it was easy for them to be drawn in by whatever they were seeing at the time. They knew they had a model that appealed to people with their usual love song format, but by the time they got to work on some of their later albums, it wasn’t out of the question for them to come up with anything that came into their heads, whether that was a country and western tune about a shootout like ‘Rocky Raccoon’ or a lighthearted tune about an axe murderer on ‘Maxwell’s Silver Hammer’.
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