How John Lennon Pushed Paul McCartney's Idea for 'We Can Work It Out' Over the Top
While the songwriting credits on the record never changed, John Lennon and Paul McCartney weren’t collaborating a great deal by the late 1960s. Looking back at The Beatles’ run, many point to Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) as the end of the line for the Lennon-McCartney machine.
“A Day in the Life,” the crowning achievement of Sgt. Pepper’s (and maybe the band overall), might have been the last example of the pair fully working together. If you go by No. 1 singles that were pure Lennon-McCartney, you have to go back earlier.
During the Rubber Soul sessions (1965), John and Paul topped the charts on both side of the Atlantic with the single, “We Can Work It Out.” (In America, the song went out on the Yesterday…And Today album; in England, it was just a single.)
While it started as a hit-in-the-making idea from Paul, the contribution from John pushed in to its classic status.
Source: cheatsheet.com
