Paul McCartney picks his top three John Lennon songs

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One of the most illustrious musical collaborations in history was created by John Lennon and Paul McCartney in the late 1950s. Early in the 1960s, The Beatles expanded with the inclusion of George Harrison and Ringo Starr, setting off on a voyage that would ultimately take them around the globe.

The Beatles transitioned from their early years of performing love songs and singing classic rhythm and blues tunes to their latter years of exploring experimental psychedelia. They so opened the door for numerous modern artists and permanently altered the history of pop culture.

At the St. Peter's Church Hall festival in Woolton in July 1957, a 16-year-old Lennon and a 15-year-old McCartney first met. Since they got along great, it didn't take long for McCartney to start playing rhythm guitar in Lennon's school band, The Quarrymen.

"We had shared a childhood. We had taken the initial steps together as young children. In 2021, McCartney said on BBC Radio 2, "We kind of learnt to walk together, then we learned to run. "And it was crucial that each of us was affecting the other. We were also learning life lessons in addition to music and other things.

McCartney went on to describe how they shared original ideas as a duo. "John would come up with something that was a little bit ahead of my curve if I did something that was a little bit ahead of the curve. There was a lot of friendly competition, and I'd say, "Well, how about this?"

"If you've known someone that long, from early adolescence to late twenties, that's an awfully long time to be working with them, and you get to know each other, and even when you're apart, you're still thinking about each other, you're still referencing each other," he continued.

When McCartney appeared on the British radio station, the host asked him to name his top John Lennon solo songs. "Clearly, Imagine. And 'Instant Karma' is fantastic; also, it's lovely because when I listen to the songs, I can picture him in the studio and think, 'Oh ok, I know what he's done. He just requested some Elvis echo from the engineer. Bog echo," chuckled McCartney.

The former Beatle felt the need to clarify what he meant, saying, "Bog is the toilet in Liverpool, but we simply called it bog echo.

But McCartney's favorite song from the Lennon solo discography, "Beautiful Boy. comes before these two timeless songs. "Beautiful Boy" is constantly included when I'm asked about my favorite songs, he stated.