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John Lennon pictured in 1966(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\nJohn could be very harsh about his own workJohn Lennon pictured in 1966(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n
John Lennon was not afraid to criticise The Beatles’ work. Especially after he left the band, there were a number of occasions when John took aim at and challenged the songs of his main creative collaborator Paul McCartney<\/a>, with whom he wrote the majority of the band’s output.<\/p>\n John expressed his dislike for a number of songs written by Paul. These included ‘Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da<\/a>‘, which recording engineer Geoff Emerick said John “openly and vocally detested” and ‘Let It Be’<\/a>, during the recording of which John took aim at the song’s message, asking: “Are we supposed to giggle in the solo?”<\/p>\n He continued to pour cold water on the 1970 classic after The Beatles<\/a> broke up. Asked about the track in a 1980 interview with Playboy, he said: “That’s Paul. What can you say? Nothing to do with The Beatles<\/a>.<\/p>\n “It could’ve been Wings. I don’t know what he’s thinking when he writes ‘Let It Be’.”<\/p>\n Paul<\/a> also revealed in a 2018 interview with CBS that ‘Here, There and Everywhere’ was the only song that John complimented<\/a> him about. In that interview, Paul<\/a> was asked if John ever complimented him for his signwriting. He answered: “Once – in the whole time.<\/p>\n “I think it’s ‘Revolver’, it was ‘Here, There and Everywhere’, (it) was one of my songs on it but John sort of just (said) when it finishes, ‘that’s a really good song that, I love that song’.”<\/p>\n Paul said his response to that was: “‘Yes he likes it’. You know, I\u2019ve remembered it to this day. It\u2019s pathetic really.”<\/p>\n But John could also be quite hard on himself. He said he was ashamed of his vocals on ‘Twist and Shout’<\/a> and described his 1967 track ‘Good Morning Good Morning’ as “garbage”.<\/p>\n It wasn’t the only time he used that word to describe a Beatles<\/a> track of his. John wrote a number of songs during the band’s 1968 trip to India, including ‘Polythene Pam’ and ‘Mean Mr Mustard’, which both featured as part of the closing melody of the 1969 album ‘Abbey Road’.<\/p>\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0_All-You-Need-Is-Love.jpg\")
The Beatles at Abbey Road in 1967(Image: BIPs\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n