The partnership of John Lennon and Paul McCartney is one that hardly needs any introduction. The duo was the source form which the majority of The Beatles classic tracks have sprung and their contribution to music as a whole is undeniable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, that didn\u2019t stop the pair from enjoying, or perhaps enduring, a torrid competitive streak when writing their songs. Back in the early days of the Fab Four, McCartney wrote one song that would earn Lennon\u2019s respect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
John Lennon was a cantankerous man<\/a> during his career. As happy to be scathing as he was mystical, the mercurial figure of John Lennon was never afraid to make his opinions be known. It\u2019s often left Paul McCartney suggesting that there were only ever a few songs that he had written that Lennon actually liked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Despite the competition in the latter parts of the band\u2019s career, Lennon and McCartney had once worked very closely with one another: \u201cWe wrote a lot of stuff together, one on one, eyeball to eyeball,\u201d Lennon once famously said. But there was one song that let the bespectacled Beatle known that Paul was on the charge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 1963, McCartney wrote \u2018All My Loving\u2019 and showed John Lennon that he was as good as anybody when it came to writing pop songs. \u201cI never wrote words first, it was always some kind of accompaniment,\u201d McCartney said in his official biography Many Years From Now<\/em>. \u201cI\u2019ve hardly ever done it since either. We were on a tour bus going to a gig so I started with the words.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Arriving at the venue and without a guitar, McCartney headed for the nearest piano to get the track down: \u201cI didn\u2019t have a guitar, it was probably with our road manager,\u201d he recalled. But soon enough, Macca sat backstage and began composing one of his most treasured songs. It certainly impressed John Lennon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sitting down with David Sheff for his infamous 1980 Playboy interview, Lennon was open about his admiration for the song. During the interview Lennon was running through classic Beatles tracks and offering up his opinion, \u201c\u2018All My Loving\u2019 is Paul, I regret to say,\u201d he told David Sheff. But why did he regret to say it? \u201cBecause it\u2019s a damn good piece of work.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n That\u2019s about as large a compliment as you\u2019d ever get from Lennon. The singer had a habit of making his hurtful points bigger than ever and his compliments just footnotes. But it seems \u2018All My Loving\u2019 certainly earned Lennon\u2019s respect\u2014John described it as \u201cone of [Paul\u2019s] first biggies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The only other song, that Lennon openly commented on to Paul McCartney was the ethereal \u2018Here, There and Everywhere\u2019<\/a> telling Macca, \u201creally good song, lad\u201d during its creation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Below listen to the first Beatles song written by Paul McCartney to gain John Lennon\u2019s respect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n