Pioneering song that John Lennon 'wished he could have written'
Across his time in The Beatles and as a solo artist, John Lennon wrote countless iconic songs. With Paul McCartney, he was part of the most legendary songwriting partnership of all time, which was the driving creative force behind The Beatles.
In the early days, the two wrote songs together at Paul's childhood home on Forthlin Road in Allerton. As they grew older and artistic differences within The Beatles emerged, the two tended to write independently before presenting songs to each other for final tweaks.
Speaking about working with Paul, John told Playboy in a 1980 interview: "(Paul) provided a lightness, an optimism, while I would always go for the sadness, the discords, the bluesy notes. There was a period when I thought I didn't write melodies, that Paul wrote those and I just wrote straight, shouting rock 'n' roll.
"But, of course, when I think of some of my own songs - 'In My Life', or some of the early stuff, 'This Boy' - I was writing melody with the best of them."
About John and Paul's special working relationship, Wilfred Mellors wrote in 1972: "Opposite poles generate electricity: between John and Paul the sparks flew. John's fiery iconoclasm was tempered by Paul's lyrical grace, while Paul's wide-eyed charm was toughened by John's resilience."
Source: liverpoolecho.co.uk/Dan Haygarth
