775 The Beatles “We Can Work It Out” 1965

“Brought together by their common love of rock-and-roll, Lennon and McCartney were psychologically cemented by the harsh coincidence of losing their mothers in their early teens. But though they never lost their basic respect for each other’s talent, their temperaments were too individual to allow much practical coexistence as songwriters. For most of their career, their partnership was a fiction, each writing (and, as a rule, singing), his own songs. That said, their close creative proximity generated the electric atmosphere of fraternal competition which was the secret of The Beatles’ extraordinary ability to better themselves” (Ian MacDonald, Revolution in the Head: The Beatles’ Records and the Sixties, 1994). 

The Beatles “We Can Work It Out”