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🎶 FAQ about the Lennon & McCartney Songwriting History 🎶

🚖 How did Lennon and McCartney write their songs?

Usually, one of them wrote most of the song and the other just helped finish it off, adding a bit of tune or a bit of lyric. Their first single was a typical example of this process: Paul wrote the main structure of 'Love Me Do' when he was 16. I helped him with the middle.

🚖 How did Paul McCartney learn to write songs?

Someone he respected (Dad) showed him informally how to play the piano. Paul imitated the songs he liked as covers. Eventually, he's forced into writing his own songs and had to commit them to memory through repetition.

🚖 Who did Paul McCartney say was the best songwriter?

Brian Wilson.

The most significant and innovative musician of the late 20th century, Paul McCartney rightly called him “one of the great American geniuses” at his Songwriters' Hall Of Fame induction in 2000.

🚖 Did Paul McCartney ever learn to read music?

Paul McCartney says that he can't read music.

🚖 What is Paul McCartney's Favourite song that he wrote?

Here, There And Everywhere.

Here, There And Everywhere remains McCartney's favourite song he's written, when under pressure to answer, running a close second is Yesterday. Paul estated that Here, There And Everywhere was the only song Lennon ever complimented him for.

🚖 Could Lennon and McCartney read music?

“None of us could read music… None of us can write it.” John Lennon admitted this about the band in a 1980 Playboy interview, “but as pure musicians, as inspired humans to make the noise, they [Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr] are as good as anybody.

🚖 Could John Lennon write music?

Songwriting is “easy” according to John Lennon. In a 1983 interview with Molly Meldrum, David Bowie talked about how much he admired John Lennon's songwriting capabilities. He recalled a time when Lennon said to him, “It's very easy…all you have to do is say what you mean, make it rhyme, and put a backbeat to it”.

🚖 Who taught Paul McCartney everything?

Little Richard.

“I owe a lot of what I do to Little Richard and his style; and he knew it. He would say, 'I taught Paul everything he knows. ' I had to admit he was right.”

🚖 Did Paul or John write In My Life?

Credited to the Lennon–McCartney songwriting partnership, the song is one of only a few in which there is dispute over the primary author; John Lennon wrote the lyrics, but he and Paul McCartney later disagreed over who wrote the melody. George Martin (Beatles' producer) contributed the piano solo bridge.

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🚖 What was the difference between Lennon and McCartney songwriting?

Paul, more open, gentle, and articulate, tends to write the “soppier” songs – “John doesn't like to show he's sentimental; I don't mind.” John, a deeper, more explosive, and enigmatic person, is more willing to try less conventional sounds. John also tends toward a greater interest in lyrics; Paul towards music.

🚖 Who taught Paul McCartney music?

His father, a volunteer fireman during World War II, was an accomplished jazz musician. Young Paul taught himself the trumpet and, soon later, the guitar. "The minute he got the guitar,'' his brother recalled, "that was the end."

🚖 Did Paul McCartney teach John Lennon how do you play the guitar?

Paul McCartney is opened up about one of his most embarrassing moments as a musician in the latest episode of his podcast, Paul McCartney: A Life in Lyrics. In discussing his early guitar playing, McCartney shared that originally he thought he was good, noting he even had to teach John Lennon guitar chords.

🚖 What song did Paul McCartney write for John Lennon?

"Here Today" is a song by Paul McCartney from his 1982 album Tug of War. He wrote the song as a tribute to his relationship with John Lennon, who was murdered in 1980.

🚖 What songs did Lennon and McCartney actually write together?

▪ Across the Universe
▪ All I've Got to Do
▪ All My Loving
▪ All Together Now
▪ All You Need Is Love
▪ And I Love Her
▪ And Your Bird Can Sing
▪ Another Girl
▪ Any Time at All
▪ Ask Me Why
▪ Baby, You're a Rich Man
▪ Baby's in Black
▪ Back in the U.S.S.R.
▪ Bad to Me
▪ The Ballad of John and Yoko
▪ The Beatles' Movie Medley
▪ The Beatles Play the Residents and the Residents Play the Beatles
▪ Because
▪ Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!
▪ Birthday
▪ Blackbird
▪ Can You Take Me Back
▪ Can't Buy Me Love
▪ Carry That Weight
▪ Come Together
▪ Commonwealth
▪ The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill
▪ Cry Baby Cry
▪ Day Tripper
▪ Dear Prudence
▪ Dig a Pony
▪ Do You Want to Know a Secret
▪ Doctor Robert
▪ Don't Let Me Down
▪ Drive My Car
▪ Eight Days a Week
▪ Eleanor Rigby
▪ Encore (Jay-Z song)
▪ The End
▪ Every Little Thing
▪ Everybody Had a Hard Year
▪ Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey
▪ Fixing a Hole
▪ The Fool on the Hill
▪ For No One
▪ From a Window
▪ From Me to You
▪ Get Back
▪ Getting Better
▪ Girl
▪ Glass Onion
▪ Golden Slumbers
▪ Good Day Sunshine
▪ Good Morning Good Morning
▪ Good Night
▪ Goodbye (Mary Hopkin song)
▪ Got to Get You into My Life
▪ Happiness Is a Warm Gun
▪ A Hard Day's Night
▪ Hello Little Girl
▪ Hello, Goodbye
▪ Help!
▪ Helter Skelter
▪ Her Majesty
▪ Here, There and Everywhere
▪ Hey Bulldog
▪ Hey Jude
▪ Hold Me Tight
▪ Honey Pie
▪ I Am the Walrus
▪ I Call Your Name
▪ I Don't Want to See You Again
▪ I Don't Want to Spoil the Party
▪ I Feel Fine
▪ I Saw Her Standing There
▪ I Should Have Known Better
▪ I Wanna Be Your Man
▪ I Want to Hold Your Hand
▪ I Want You (She's So Heavy)
▪ I Will
▪ I'll Be Back
▪ I'll Be on My Way
▪ I'll Cry Instead
▪ I'll Follow the Sun
▪ I'll Get You
▪ I'll Keep You Satisfied
▪ I'm a Loser
▪ I'm Down
▪ I'm Happy Just to Dance with You
▪ I'm in Love
▪ I'm Looking Through You
▪ I'm Only Sleeping
▪ I'm So Tired
▪ I've Got a Feeling
▪ I've Just Seen a Face
▪ If I Fell
▪ If You've Got Trouble
▪ In My Life
▪ It Won't Be Long
▪ It's for You
▪ It's Only Love
▪ Julia
▪ Komm, gib mir deine Hand / Sie liebt dich
▪ Lady Madonna
▪ Let It Be
▪ Like Dreamers Do
▪ Little Child
▪ The Long and Winding Road
▪ The Long One
▪ Love Me Do
▪ Love of the Loved
▪ Lovely Rita
▪ Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
▪ Madman
▪ Magical Mystery Tour
▪ Martha My Dear
▪ Maxwell's Silver Hammer
▪ Mean Mr. Mustard
▪ Michelle
▪ Misery
▪ Mother Nature's Son
▪ Never Went to Church
▪ The Night Before
▪ No Reply
▪ Nobody I Know
▪ Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
▪ Not a Second Time
▪ Nowhere Man
▪ Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
▪ Oh! Darling
▪ One After 909
▪ One and One Is Two
▪ P.S. I Love You
▪ Paperback Writer
▪ Los Paranoias
▪ Penina
▪ Penny Lane
▪ Please Please Me
▪ Polythene Pam
▪ Rain
▪ Revolution
▪ Revolution 9
▪ Rocky Raccoon
▪ Run for Your Life
▪ Sexy Sadie
▪ Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
▪ She Came In Through the Bathroom Window
▪ She Loves You
▪ She Said She Said
▪ She's a Woman
▪ She's Leaving Home
▪ The Sounds of Science
▪ Stars on 45
▪ Step Inside Love
▪ Strawberry Fields Forever
▪ Sun King
▪ Tell Me What You See
▪ Tell Me Why
▪ Thank You Girl
▪ That Means a Lot
▪ There's a Place
▪ Things We Said Today
▪ This Boy
▪ Ticket to Ride
▪ Tip of My Tongue (Tommy Quickly song)
▪ Tomorrow Never Knows
▪ Two of Us
▪ Wait
▪ Watching Rainbows
▪ We Can Work It Out
▪ What Goes On
▪ What You're Doing
▪ What's the New Mary Jane
▪ When I Get Home
▪ When I'm Sixty-Four
▪ Why Don't We Do It in the Road?
▪ Wild Honey Pie
▪ With a Little Help from My Friends
▪ The Word
▪ A World Without Love
▪ Yellow Submarine
▪ Yer Blues
▪ Yes It Is
▪ Yesterday
▪ You Can't Do That
▪ You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)
▪ You Never Give Me Your Money
▪ You Won't See Me
▪ You'll Be Mine
▪ You're Going to Lose That Girl
▪ You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
▪ Your Mother Should Know

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