It remains a fascinating exercise to wonder how John Lennon and Paul McCartney felt about each other’s songs. Bands, and especially a band’s primary songwriters, are famously competitive. This explains why it’s so difficult to keep even the most successful groups together.

It also seems that John was worried that Paul was trying to damage his own work, as cracks began to show in their relationship. The 1967 song 'Strawberry Fields Forever' was released as a double A-single with the Paul-penned 'Penny Lane'.

John Lennon's love letter to The Beatles, "Now and Then," reworked and released in 2023, may win a Grammy—for Paul and Ringo, but not for Lennon himself.

Julian Lennon, the eldest son of the legendary Beatles singer-songwriter John Lennon, says he and his father had a rather distant relationship. "You have to realise that when Dad left, when I was between three and five (it was a bit of a process),

"I'm just as curious as anybody else, although I do find myself going, 'how is it possible that there's another Beatles film?'"

Julian, whom John shared with first wife Cynthia Lennon, opens up in a new interview about how he hasn't felt connected to the Beatles throughout his life

You’d be a hard-hearted soul not to feel at least a shred of sympathy for Julian Lennon. It can’t have been easy, for all the reasons you’d expect. Though he’s enjoyed a decent-ish career in music (Top Ten hits,

Julian Lennon, the eldest son of The Beatles member John Lennon, opened up about his complicated relationship with his father and his world-famous musical group. The 61-year-old, whose mother is Lennon's first wife,