Paul McCartney thought Beatles song would be 'disastrous' but John Lennon never gave up on it
As The Beatles' primary songwriters, Paul McCartney and John Lennon composed a catalogue of classics, but it wasn't always easy. John and Paul wrote the bulk of the band's hits, with all of their Beatles work jointly-credited to Lennon-McCartney, even if one of them did the majority of the writing on a song.
In the early days, the two sat together and wrote in tandem - beginning at Paul's childhood home on Forthlin Road in Allerton. Once they moved to London, that writing base became the family home of Jane Asher, Paul's then-girlfriend.
About their process, John told Playboy in 1980: “We wrote a lot of stuff together, one on one, eyeball to eyeball. Like in 'I Want to Hold Your Hand', I remember when we got the chord that made the song.
“We were in Jane Asher's house, downstairs in the cellar playing on the piano at the same time. And we had, 'Oh you-u-u/ got that something ...' And Paul hits this chord and I turn to him and say, 'That's it!' I said, 'Do that again!' In those days, we really used to absolutely write like that—both playing into each other's noses.”
However, one song in particular took a lot of work to make right. 'Drive My Car' was written predominately by Paul (with contributions to the lyrics from John) and it became the opening track of the band's 1965 album 'Rubber Soul'. It follows a woman who believes she will make it big as a Hollywood star and offers a man the chance to be her driver, though Paul later said it was a euphemism for sex.
Source: Dan Haygarth/liverpoolecho.co.uk
