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Lennon–McCartney. Paul McCartney (left) and John Lennon (right) in 1964. Lennon–McCartney was the songwriting partnership between English musicians John Lennon (1940–1980) and Paul McCartney (born 1942) of the Beatles. It is widely considered one of the greatest, best known and most successful musical collaborations ever by ...
Oct 14, 2020 · It felt like any other summer day in Liverpool, but a chance encounter turned into one of the most notable days in music history: the day John Lennon first met Paul McCartney. On July 6, 1957,...
Jun 26, 2014 · The Power of Two. Despite the mythology around the idea of the lone genius, the famous partnership of John Lennon and Paul McCartney demonstrates the brilliance of creative pairs. By Joshua...
Oct 9, 2020 · For a decade after they met as teenagers, Lennon-McCartney was the most potent songwriting partnership in pop music.
The songwriting partnership of John Lennon and Paul McCartney, usually referred to as Lennon/McCartney (Credited as McCartney/Lennon on the early releases ending with the "Please Please Me" LP), is one of the best-known and most successful musical collaborations of all time.
Although many of the songs within the Lennon-McCartney songbook were initially penned by either one or the other separately, according to Lennon’s 1980 Playboy interview, they decided around...
Nov 5, 2023 · Lennon and Mr. McCartney were intense young men who grew up in an era before men were encouraged to speak about their feelings, either in therapy or to one another.
Dec 11, 2020 · NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Paul McCartney about the life and death of the Beatles' John Lennon, who was killed 40 years ago this week.
Like many artists, however, Lennon and McCartney find it both difficult and hardly relevant to explain in words what they are doing and how they do it. When a now-famous January 1963 article in The Times referred flatteringly to their use of “Aeolian cadences” and “chains of pandiatonic clusters,’ “melismas,” and “submediant ...
Sep 4, 2011 · The way that Lennon and McCartney worked together wasn't the Rodgers-and-Hart kind of collaboration. It was more a question of one of them trying to write a song, getting stuck, and asking the other: 'I need a middle eight. What have you got?' They were both tunesmiths in their own right, and would help each other out as the need ...
