Ian Leslie’s John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs, takes a long look – 426 pages – at how John Lennon and Paul McCartney worked together from their meeting as teenagers until John’s death.

John Lennon and Paul McCartney’s song 'Getting Better' reveals a turning point in their bond, sparked by an LSD-fueled night at Abbey Road. The track, blending McCartney’s optimism with Lennon ...

While writing about The Beatles, Hunter Davies got to know the band well. He considered McCartney a very likable person. “Paul was the easiest to talk to,” Davies wrote in the book The ...

‘No’ is the answer as far as author Hunter Davies is concerned. He’s still the only person to have written an authorised biography of The Beatles during their career. His came out in ...

While strolling in the park on an early spring day in March 1967, he recalled a favorite phrase of part-time Beatles’ drummer Jimmie Nicol, who subbed in for a few dates on the 1964 world tour ...

Just 21 years old, he was a rising figure in the Swinging London scene of the '60s, a friend to The Beatles ... t copy the accident” Lennon told Hunter Davies in the band’s 1968 authorised ...

“When [the Beatles] used to get together after a month off, we used to be embarrassed about touching each other,” he told the band’s biographer, Hunter Davies, that same year. “We’d do ...

John Lennon and Paul McCartney changed the world with the 162 songs they wrote for the Beatles, but few demonstrate the creative and emotional complexities of their relationship quite like “Getting ...

The event will feature an opening speech by the awards founder, Hunter Davies, and the judges will announce the winners and present the awards. There is a £200 prize for each category winner and an ...

Although the band had already been exhausted by the time they began work on Beatles for Sale, they were energised enough ... it also stands as one of the least eye-catching of their album covers.