12:27 p.m. April 6, 2025: An earlier version of this article misstated the year Paul McCartney wrote “Yesterday” and the year Lorne Michaels offered the Beatles $3,000 to appear on “Saturday Night ...

"What it seems to be most like is a romance," said "John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs" author Ian Leslie of Lennon and McCartney's relationship. He loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah. That was the mutual ...

Paul McCartney and John Lennon were close friends and collaborators in the early days of The Beatles. By the time the band broke up, however, their relationship was beyond strained. They could hardly ...

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When it comes to elevating our understanding of The Beatles, Ian Leslie’s new book "John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs" is a mixed bag. On the one hand, Leslie provides elegant readings of a host of ...

Together, the Beatles wrote some of the world’s most enduring love songs. John Lennon’s love letters, on the other hand, reveal a different, earthier type of poetry — and take a swipe at Paul ...

It’s the greatest story often told. The Beatles are not just the most successful musical act of all time; they are perhaps the most analyzed, deconstructed and dissected entertainers since the dawn of ...

Ian Leslie’s “John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs,” takes a detailed look — 426 pages — at how John Lennon and Paul McCartney worked together from their meeting as teenagers until Lennon’s death. Had ...