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“I loved his early music, but that’s about it.”

His early music? McCartney was the brain of that outfit.

What one must do is to compare their respective careers after the Beatles broke up.

McCartney thrived while Lennon’s career was downhill forever.

Their collaborations was nothing more than McCartney writing a song then Lennon would say, “Oh, yeah! That’s good!” That is how he got his name on some of McCartney’s songs.

Their collaborations was nothing more than McCartney writing a song then Lennon would say, “Oh, yeah! That’s good!” That is how he got his name on some of McCartney’s songs.

Baloney. Come Together, Norwegian Wood, You've Got to Hide Your Love Away, Tomorrow Never Knows, Help, Strawberry Fields Forever, and many more classics were primarily written by Lennon. As for his career nosediving after the Beatles, well, Yoko.

"Their collaborations was nothing more than McCartney writing a song then Lennon would say, “Oh, yeah! That’s good!” That is how he got his name on some of McCartney’s songs."

That is simply not true. While John sort of stepped away from the entertainment world in the mid 70's after Sean was born (I guess he was making up for the fact he was such a lousy dad to Julian), he had many hits in the early 70's and upon his return to the music industry in 1980 his double fantasy album had a bunch of hits on it. Sadly, his music legacy was cut short after that. As for the Beatles, it has been generally understood that the songs John wrote, he sang and the songs Paul wrote he sang. Going by that, John penned quite a few hits for the Beatles also. Now there were some like "I want to hold your hand" that were sung by both so who knows which one wrote it. It does sound like a McCartney type of song though. John penned my favorite Beatles song ever "In My Life"...