Paul McCartney has shared how John Lennon continues to influence his songwriting, adding that the process was “much easier” working alongside his Beatles bandmate.
In a new podcast, Paul deconstructs some of rock band’s most iconic songs – including “Let It Be“ and “Eleanor Rigby” in profound conversations with Paul Muldoon, the Pulitzer-winning Irish poet.
Muldoon edited the musician’s 2021 autobiography The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present, in which McCartney examines his life within the context of 154 songs from different points in his decades-long career.
Their conversations are presented as 24 episodes across two seasons of a new Pushkin podcast McCartney: A Life in Lyrics, in which the celebrated musician breaks down the people, places, and memories that inspired his songwriting.
In a recent episode, Paul tells Muldoon how John still shapes his work, explaining he’ll change anything the music icon would have deemed “too soppy”.
“Often I’ll sort of refer… ‘What would John think of this? He’d have thought it was too soppy, so I’ll change it,” Paul said.
He also says songwriting was a “much easier” job, working alongside John, because “there were two minds at work””That interplay was miraculous. You don’t have this opposing element so much [now]. I have to do that myself.”
Elsewhere, while discussing the band’s then-imminent breakup, Paul said John insisted Yoko Ono, who he had just started seeing, be present in the studio during The Beatles recording sessions.
Macca said that while other members agreed to his condition “out of deference” to John, none of them “particularly liked...the interference in the workplace”.
New episodes of A Life in Lyrics are released every Wednesday.
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