The Beatles' Paul McCartney reduced to tears by 'emotional' song as he tried to sing it

About the track, Paul said: "It’s really just a love song, but it’s brilliantly done"
English musician and songwriter Paul McCartney of The Beatles attends a press conference to promote Leicester University's arts festival at the Royal Garden Hotel in London on 5th February 1968

Paul McCartney has written more than his fair share of classic songs. Alongside John Lennon, Paul, now 82, wrote the bulk of The Beatles' songbook and was the driving force behind beloved tracks like 'Let it Be', 'Yesterday', 'Hey Jude' and 'Penny Lane'.

About the Lennon-McCartney songwriting partnership, Music and Musicians magazine's Wilfred Mellors wrote in 1972: "Opposite poles generate electricity: between John and Paul the sparks flew. John's fiery iconoclasm was tempered by Paul's lyrical grace, while Paul's wide-eyed charm was toughened by John's resilience."

Paul and John set the standard for songwriting in the 1960s, inspiring many of their peers. About their 1964 arrival in the United States, Bob Dylan said: "They were doing things nobody was doing. Their chords were outrageous, just outrageous, and their harmonies made it all valid. But I just kept it to myself that I really dug them.

"Everybody else thought they were for the teeny-boppers, that they were gonna pass right away. But it was obvious to me that they had staying power. I knew they were pointing the direction of where music had to go."

It wasn't just Dylan who they inspired and led the way for. John and Paul even famously wrote the Rolling Stones' first hit single for them - 1963's 'I Wanna Be Your Man'.

Source: liverpoolecho.co.uk/Dan Haygarth

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