The Tragic Real-Life Story Of Paul McCartney
John Lennon's and Paul McCartney's songwriting partnership is remembered today as the greatest in pop music history. But after bonding over a mutual love of music and reaching unimaginable peaks, their relationship soured. During the final years of the Beatles and after the band split, the former friends would spend the next decade in a love/hate relationship.
According to Biography, the pair met on July 6, 1957, when Lennon was performing with his skiffle band, The Quarrymen. A mutual friend introduced the two, and a few months later, Lennon asked McCartney to join the group. It evolved into the Beatles, with Lennon and McCartney as the main singer/songwriters.
By the time the band broke up, the two were at each other's throats. They wrote each other angry letters, and Ultimate Classic Rock reports that both men wrote insult songs directed at each other. McCartney's included "Too Many People," and Lennon's response was "How Do You Sleep?," which features the lyrics "The only thing you done was 'Yesterday' / And since you've gone, you're just 'Another Day.'"
The two eventually reconciled and maintained contact over the final years of Lennon's life, with McCartney saying, "We just talked kids and baking bread." McCartney has also said that their last conversation before Lennon's murder was friendly. Linda McCartney said that Lennon's final words to McCartney were, "think about me every now and then, old friend."
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