“John phoned me up one morning in January and said, ‘I’ve written this tune and I’m going to record it tonight and have it ...

Paul McCartney wrote 1 Beatles song long before the band formed. He said he could have changed the lyrics in a small way.

Darling” sounded more like a song he might have written and it remained ... He wrote it as a hopeful message for Lennon’s son Julian while his parents (John and Cynthia) divorced.

When John Lennon recorded in the early 1970s, he sometimes didn't even sing a single song. One night, though, he astonished a crowd.

It showed Paul McCartney, John Lennon ... I just wrote the song because I was commissioned to write it for the movie. But later, I knew I really was crying out for help. "So it was my fat Elvis period ...

That cry for help became the song ... of them. John went home and thought about it and got the basis of it, then we had a writing session on it. We sat at his house and wrote it, so he obviously ...

John had written the song - which is about his ... saying: "John Lennon once convened a meeting of The Beatles to inform them that he was Jesus: the charmless Ballad of John and Yoko is that ...

Most great bands boast iconic songwriting partnerships. In the case of the Beatles, John Lennon and Paul McCartney are ...

You usually can't beat the Lennon-McCartney classics, but these Paul McCartney originals shined even brighter.

Speaking in a new interview, the elder son of John Lennon said he is often one of ... “I love the fact that he wrote a song about me and for Mum, but depending on what side of the bed one ...

Caroline Sanderson reports on the latest and perhaps most insightful book to explore the phenomenon that was the Lennon and McCartney songwriting partnership.