PAUL SIMON SAID JOHN LENNON AND PAUL MCCARTNEY WERE EXTREMELY COMPETITIVE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paul Simon Said John Lennon and Paul McCartney Were so Competitive They ‘Took the Oxygen out of the Room’
After The Beatles broke up, they began a competition to see who could release the best music. This dynamic was noticeable to everyone around them. Paul Simon said he considered himself competitive, but Lennon and McCartney were on a different level.


Like Simon, Lennon and McCartney had a competitive drive that set them up for success. Lennon’s first wife, Cynthia, explained their dynamic in The Beatles.

“John and Paul had always been competitive,” Cynthia Lennon wrote in her book John. “Although the other band members — and the audience — knew that John was the group’s leader, Paul wanted to be involved in all the decisions, whether they were about which venue to play or which songs to use. The two sang alternatively on stage and each had his own style.”
Simon said that their competitive nature was so apparent that it was all-consuming.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Simply wanting to make the best music can make you competitive,” he said. “You have no idea how competitive John Lennon was around Paul McCartney. When I first met them, I felt like someone had taken all the oxygen out of the room. I almost couldn’t breathe, they were so competitive, and that’s what made them so great. They wouldn’t settle for just good. That was me, too.”

The competition between Lennon and McCartney did not end when The Beatles broke up. If anything, they became more driven to one-up each other with their music. When Lennon felt a lack of inspiration, hearing a new song from McCartney would get him into the studio.

“You know, I heard a story recently from a guy who used to record with John [Lennon] in New York, and he said that John would get lazy — but then he’d hear a song of mine where he thought, ‘Oh, s***, Paul’s putting it in, Paul’s working!'” McCartney told Billboard in 2001. “Apparently [Coming Up] was one song that got John recording again. I think John just thought, ‘Uh oh, I better get working, too’ [beams]. I thought that was a nice story.”
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