The “Teenage Fool” Antics Paul McCartney and John Lennon Did Together While Growing
The sheer magnitude of the Beatles’ fame makes it easy to forget that when they first reached the peak of their stardom in the mid-1960s, they were just a group of ragtag, young 20-somethings who happened to land a big break. When the future Fab Four first met, they were even younger teens. For most of us, the idea of forging an entire career (and, more generally, a life) with the people we hung out with in high school. Yet, that’s how the Beatles, one of the biggest rock bands of all time, got their start.
Indeed, before they were topping the charts and touring the world, the band’s primary songwriters, John Lennon and Paul McCartney, were busy trying to see what kind of trouble they could get into at their childhood homes.
And like the resourceful lads they were, they certainly found it. Paul McCartney Describes “Teenage Fool Antics” With John Lennon
The Beatles saw and did more exciting and wilder things during their short tenure as a band than most people will experience in their whole lifetimes. But before they got their big break in the early 1960s, they weren’t that different from any other aspiring young male musician. They taught each other chords, made up silly lyrics to their favorite cover songs, and tried desperately to attract the opposite sex with little to no avail. Paul McCartney and John Lennon longed for the day they could get famous just from playing their guitars. But before that could happen, the two friends passed the time looking for ways to feel older and “cooler” while they wrote their music.
Source: americansongwriter.com/Melanie Davis
