Paul McCartney Said He and John Lennon 'Never Got to the Bottom of Each Other's Souls'
Paul McCartney and John Lennon met as teenagers and went on to have one of the most prolific — and fraught — relationships in music history. The two musicians wrote countless classic songs together, but they also had a complicated dynamic. They were highly competitive and fought publicly after The Beatles broke up. While McCartney now reflects fondly on their relationship, he once said they didn’t fully know each other.
McCartney met Lennon at a church festival in 1956. Lennon’s band, The Quarrymen, was playing, and McCartney immediately noted Lennon’s skill.
“They weren’t bad,” he said, per the book The Beatles: The Authorized Biography by Hunter Davies. “John played the lead guitar. But he played it like a banjo, with banjo chords, as that was all he knew. None of the others had even as much an idea as John how to play.”
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