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Davies believed that Lennon once viewed McCartney as a soul mate. This changed. “He was away on a new plane, realizing at once that Paul, who until then had been his buddy, his soul mate ...

John Lennon and Paul McCartney were each other’s favorite audience. That was plainly clear as the besotted Beatles bantered, bickered and obsessed over the 23 years they were friends and rivals.

before the pair recorded another Lennon-McCartney composition 'I Don't Want to See You Again'. Paul then decided to conduct an experiment. With the next track he wrote for Peter and Gordon ...

A series of photographs taken by 21-year-old Paul McCartney with a 35-millimeter Pentax camera, the show chronicles the heady two months leading up the band’s life-changing performance on The Ed ...

Ian Leslie's “John & Paul: 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 John’s ...

Paul McCartney’s mother mistook a symptom of breast cancer for another condition just months before her untimely death. Writing in his new book ‘John and Paul: A Love Story in Songs’, author ...

At least, that’s how many songwriters see it. In McCartney’s mind, artists “shy away from” the “big one”. They want the hit until they get the hit and then it warps the entire idea of ...

Paul McCartney is no stranger to success. Some may argue that when it comes to success in the music industry, he is the very embodiment of it. In addition to being the leading musical voice of the ...

Our childhood friends’ parents often play larger roles in our lives than we fully realize when we’re young, and a teenage Paul McCartney watching ... out the marks. The next day, someone ...

So the next thing you know, Paul McCartney would sign into a hotel room as Paul Ramone. '[Bassist] Dee Dee looked at this and said, "Let's call ourselves The Ramones,"' he quipped. Each of the ...