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Having woven their threads of culture into the tapestry of humanity, it is difficult not to subject The Beatles to all the literary tropes of the age. Of all the tired old clich\u00e9s in the book that you can tag onto The Beatles<\/a>, few ring as true as describing Paul McCartney and John Lennon as the quintessential old married couple. <\/p>\n The duo were the most potent songwriters of their day, but they weren\u2019t entirely happy with their lot. Spats and tiffs were many, varied and usually petty, but as Paul McCartney explained: \u201cWhatever bad things John said about me, he would also slip his glasses down to the end of his nose and say, \u2018I love you\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n Since they first met, quite by chance, at St. Peter\u2019s Church in Woolton Village on July 6th, 1957, a creative partnership was born that would change history (and that is somehow putting it lightly). While they both stated that the moment was very unassuming, it would soon blossom into something else. As McCartney mused in a Rolling Stone interview: \u201cJohn and me, we were kids growing up together, in the same environment with the same influences.\u201d<\/p>\n Adding: \u201cHe knows the records I know, I know the records he knows. You\u2019re writing your first little innocent songs together. Then you\u2019re writing something that gets recorded. Each year goes by, and you get the cooler clothes. Then you write the cooler song to go with the cooler clothes. We were on the same escalator \u2013 on the same step of the escalator, all the way. It\u2019s irreplaceable \u2013 that time, friendship and bonding.\u201d<\/p>\n That is something that would forever remain, and it upheld their creative collaboration. The two men would continue to bump up against one another, jostling for position and hoping to make the other one smile with joy. It wasn\u2019t without its issues, but their relationship was founded on impressing the other. <\/p>\n As Lennon vouched shortly before his tragic death: \u201cHe\u2019s like a brother. I love him. Families \u2014 we certainly have our ups and downs and our quarrels. But at the end of the day, when it\u2019s all said and done, I would do anything for him, and I think he would do anything for me.\u201d\u00a0However, just like families, fallouts were also part of the pact and that is where Lennon\u2019s sabotage claims come in.<\/p>\n \u2018Across the Universe<\/a>\u2019 is undoubtedly one of The Beatles best songs. It is a paragon of the melodic introspection that they were capable of, and it also displays how well each member of the band complemented one another. In the movie Boyhood, Ethan Hawke rattles off a rant that declares, \u201cThere is no favourite Beatle! That\u2019s what I\u2019m saying, it\u2019s in the balance, and that\u2019s what made them the greatest f\u2014king rock band in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n That perfect balance was, in itself, a balancing act, and it is a credit to all involved that the giant leap of their LSD phase didn\u2019t derail them. As Ethan Hawke goes on to say, \u201cPaul takes you to the party, George talks to you about God, John says \u2018Nah it\u2019s about love and pain\u2019, then Ringo who just says \u2018hey, can\u2019t we just enjoy what we have when we have it?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/The-Beatles-Ringo-Starr-George-Harrison-Paul-McCartney-John-Lennon-1968-Far-Out-Magazine-1024x768.jp.jpeg\")
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