If there were a BC/AD moment for modern popular culture, there can’t be a better contender than a church fete in suburban Liverpool where a 15-year-old James Paul McCartney met a 16-year-old John Winston Lennon. Twenty three years later, one of them was dead, murdered by a man who wanted to be famous for killing him, leaving a body of music, composed with his teenage friend, that changed music forever.
But what of the relationship between the two men? Were they friends, rivals, collaborators, soulmates? To answer that question, Ian Leslie has written an extraordinary new book, John and Paul: A Love Story in Songs - a story of the love and jealousy between the two geniuses behind The Beatles, who merged and multiplied their talents to produce one of the greatest bodies of creative work in history. Perhaps more pertinently, its a story about creativity, genius, and friendship.
Ian Leslie is a London-based author, journalist and thinker. He writers about human behaviour, Besides John and…
