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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Michael Lydon, unpublished, March 1966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

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Total word count of piece: 4850

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