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Lennon–McCartney

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Also known as Lennon-McCartney, Lennon/McCartney, McCartney–Lennon, Lennon and McCartney, John Lennon and Paul McCartney, Lennon & McCartney

thumb|right|Paul McCartney (left) and [[John Lennon (right) in 1964]]

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inception
1957-00-00
Commons category
John Lennon and Paul McCartney
location of formation
Liverpool
start of work period
1962-00-00
archives at
British Library
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Encyclopedic overview

20 sections
Contents
  • History and evolution
  • The Quarrymen days
  • Hiatus, 1960–1961
  • New songs and songwriting contracts
  • Writing chemistry
  • Credit variations and disputes
  • Joint credit
  • Lennon–McCartney vs McCartney–Lennon
  • Lennon–McCartney and others
  • Effect on George Harrison
  • Legacy
  • Cultural impact
  • Beatles catalogue
  • Non-Beatles songs
  • Unreleased songs
  • See also
  • References
  • Citations
  • Bibliography
  • External links

thumb|right|Paul McCartney (left) and [[John Lennon (right) in 1964]]

Lennon–McCartney was the songwriting partnership between the English musicians John Lennon (1940–1980) and Paul McCartney (born 1942) of the Beatles. It is widely considered one of the greatest, best known, and most successful musical collaborations ever by records sold, with the Beatles selling more than 600 million records worldwide . Between 5 October 1962 and 8 May 1970, the partnership published approximately 180 jointly credited songs, of which the vast majority were recorded by the Beatles, forming the bulk of their catalogue.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lennon–McCartney” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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