Lennon and McCartney: Songwriters — A Portrait from 1966
Michael Lydon, unpublished, March 1966
Just after the release of Rubber Soul, I had the chance to meet John Lennon and Paul McCartney in London, and I conducted in-depth interviews with them about their songwriting. The following piece, used as a research file for Newsweek, has never before been printed – ML
Total word count of piece: 4788
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