According to John Lennon’s first wife, Paul McCartney was one of the few people Lennon trusted. McCartney knew his bandmate well, even though their relationship hit a rough patch in the 1970s.

The band would lose the rights to their music, so McCartney and especially Lennon were unhappy. “I met with them several days later at, uh, Paul’s place in St. John’s Wood,” James said in ...

McCartney reflected on the fact that both he and Lennon lost their mothers while in their mid-teens, "Actually, that was one of the things that brought John and me very close together," he recalled.

he came to conclusions about McCartney and Lennon. “Paul was the easiest to talk to,” Davies wrote in The Beatles. “He had such energy and such keenness and, unlike John, enjoyed being liked ...

That was the case when John Lennon and Paul McCartney’s relationship soured toward the end of the Beatles’ tenure. They went back and forth with each other for a while in the studio ...

McCartney said Lennon’s admiration of the song “Yesterday” manifested as extreme jealousy. “The worst thing for John,” McCartney said (per Cosmic Magazine), “was that he didn’t write ...

When Paul came up with an idea for, say, a live TV show, John wasn’t really interested.” By 1969, Lennon told his bandmates that he wanted to leave the group. In the early 1960s, McCartney and ...

the songwriting partnership of John Lennon and Paul McCartney is what made the Beatles so prolific and unique. When their relationship began faltering, so did everything else. The final recording ...

Specifically, Paul McCartney and John Lennon were always reluctant to pay credit where credit was due. However, there was one time when Lennon broke this trend, and it was when McCartney wrote The ...

A Love Story in Songs,” takes a detailed look — 426 pages — at how John Lennon and Paul McCartney worked together from their meeting as teenagers until Lennon’s death. Had McCartney not ...

Paul McCartney and John Lennon wrote the vast majority of The Beatles' host of classic songs together but they weren't always happy with what they produced. Especially after the band broke up in ...

John Lennon reportedly felt "insulted" by a suggestion from bandmate Sir Paul McCartney during the creation of one of The Beatles' greatest tracks. Paul is understood to have written the first ...