Lennon & McCartney

John and Paul met in 1957 through a mutual friend Ivan Vaughan. Paul impressed John and the other Quarrymen with the words and chords to 'Twenty Flight Rock'. They came from quite different backgrounds, Paul came from a more working class background and had enjoyed a stable family life until the death of his mother. Whereas as John contrary to the popular myth that John was the 'working class hero' came from more middle class background, his family a few generations before had actually owned most of the village of Woolton.

Despite the different upbringing they had plenty in common, music they were both artistic and through tragedy they had both lost there mothers. This helped them build a strong bond and felt they could speak ro each other about anything. They must have been close, because I don't know anyone who has had masturbating sessions together. This took place at Nigel Whalley's house in Woolton which John would like to interrupt by shouting 'Winston Churchill' during there sessions.

They started writing songs in Paul's living room while they both should have been elsewhere. They worked of each other, as Paul was left handed they were a mirror image of each other.

Despite writing so many songs there has never been any argument about who was the major contributor to the songs, exept on a couple of songs where they have both accredited each other with having a bigger input than they.

It is a shame that in the 70's things got a bit hostile between, the sort of made it up after the birth of Sean Lennon, but things where never to be like before, with Paul describing the relationship between them 'suspicious'

Could there have been more L&M masterpieces, because neither of the singles careers touched the heights of the Beatles, there was a sense that there songs were incomplete without each others input to polish of the song and make it that little bit special.