McCartney wrote “A World Without Love,” or at least most of it, when he was 16. By anybody else’s standards it would be considered a perfect pop song, but on the scale of his own work it was just OK, more of a “Why Don’t We Do It in the Road?” than a “Penny Lane.” Lennon vetoed it for the Beatles. “John didn’t think much of the song, so Paul hadn’t even finished it apart from the two verses,” says Asher. “I remember having to ask him a couple of times to finish it. Finally, he did it on the spot. He took his guitar into his room for an annoyingly short seven or eight minutes, and then came out with the bridge, which was perfect.”
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Obviously I did not read the article. But I think the story related later, as you posted, is more accurate then the first mentioning of it in the opening.
BTW, If Asher comes to your town, you should go see him. He had a lot of great stories including how he was the guy responsible for the break up of the Beatles! (he introduced Yoko to John).