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Nov 5, 2026
Mark PlotnickHOST
Who doesn't love Terry Hemmert and her long running show? Actually, it's a radio institution.
Mark PlotnickHOST
Well, here are a few fun facts about Lennon and McCartney.
Mark PlotnickHOST
So get out some pen and paper or pencil in case you want to erase something.
Mark PlotnickHOST
Or a crayon in your case.
Jim SamariaHOST
All
Mark PlotnickHOST
right.
Mark PlotnickHOST
Well, let's talk about Lennon and McCartney.
Mark PlotnickHOST
The two of them together published 180 songs in the years that they were together with the Beatles.
Janda LaneHOST
I think sometimes it comes down to this person had so much of a writing credit.
Janda LaneHOST
I think this was the case with the Beatles for sure, why they didn't let George Harrison write more songs or have more songs on the albums because the writing credit usually went to Lennon McCartney.
Janda LaneHOST
Right.
Janda LaneHOST
So it comes down to that.
JasonHOST
Yeah, and it's weird, like, that they're – you know, and I think it's mostly – I think Sege is, like, the guy.
JasonHOST
So I don't know if there was ever, like, a Lennon-McCartney kind of, you know, push-pull kind of thing ever going on, but you almost could assume that it would be.
JasonHOST
Just how it sounds, but yeah.
JasonHOST
He is just, like, a guy – Like us, you know, who was like, I fucking love Swedish brutal death metal and I fucking love like dark tranquility and in flames.
Brett MorrisPANELIST
You're saying what I've
Will HinesHOST
always said, Lennon McCartney brought in garbage songs that they had written and they, bad songwriters and they save it on the arranging.
Will HinesHOST
Yeah.
Will HinesHOST
Brett, you, we, we, we see that the same way.
Tony ToscanoHOST
It keeps you going.
Joe ElliottGUEST
yeah that's it's the only reason we do it we're we're all of us the lot of us you know um essentially with songwriters at the end of the day you know we've done our fair share of cover songs because we admire songwriters but essentially those those people that we've listened to inspired us to want to write our own songs you know growing up as a kid it would be ray davis T Townsend, Jagger and Richards, McCartney, Lennon, that kind of thing.
Joe ElliottGUEST
And then, you know, going through the glam stuff with those like Bowie and Bolan and Slade, you become a songwriter so that you can do your own songs and hopefully play on the same size stages as these guys that you saw on Top of the Pops or, you know, in America it would have been Midnight Special and stuff like that.
Joe ElliottGUEST
And you want to kind of achieve what your heroes achieved.
Joe ElliottGUEST
So we said, well, we'll do a mix and put it out there.
Joe ElliottGUEST
So we just, you know, it's fun.
Joe ElliottGUEST
We like, again, it's Lennon and McCartney.
Joe ElliottGUEST
What's not to like? So we did the song and it turned out pretty well, you know.
Graham OlsonHOST
This would be backed with a tune called You Can't Do That, a solid John Lennon rocker, of which there would be plenty of on A Hard Day's Night.
Graham OlsonHOST
What's unique about this album was that this was perhaps the true height of the Lennon-McCartney collaboration.
Graham OlsonHOST
Every single tune on the album was credited to the pair.
Graham OlsonHOST
Usually there'd be at least one George Harrison song on a Beatles album, or in these early days there'd often be covers, but no, these were 13 original Lennon-McCartney tunes, all at a time when the Beatles were touring and soon filming, in addition to recording.
Graham OlsonHOST
They were busy bees.
Graham OlsonHOST
And while we'll talk about which of these 13 tunes were excellent, they were all at least pretty good.
16 MINS LATER
Graham OlsonHOST
and the song selection on Beatles for Sale reflected the exhausting schedule and rushing that the band had endured.
Graham OlsonHOST
Because now, nearly half the songs were covers.
Shep RosenmanHOST
The lyrics were all Liz.
Shep RosenmanHOST
And like we do the Lennon McCartney thing, like we both wrote the song together, even though she wrote the lyrics and I wrote the music.
Shep RosenmanHOST
But some of them, like two days ago for Fearless, I sent her a stream of consciousness.
Shep RosenmanHOST
She reworked it, made it better.
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The people whose voices filled the soundtrack were almost certainly not among the singers.
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In November 2006, Paul McCartney told Q Magazine that touring had one part that it did not feel good.
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Every time he sang Hey Jude, he said he had to pay someone.
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A man who wrote a song, paying to sing it.
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How does the author of a song end up needing someone else's permission to use it? Behind that sits a larger question.
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If the Beatles do not own the Beatles, who does? And how did the songs sleep away from the people who made them? The familiar answer comes with a famous buyer.
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In the early 1980s, McCartney and Michael Jackson recorded songs together.
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By McCartney's own later account, Jackson asked him for business advice, and McCartney told him to think about music publishing.
Alex PappademasGUEST
It's a long, and there's all of these additional verses and like different characters show up and everything.
Alex PappademasGUEST
And like, The Terrapin Station chapter, I think, though, is really the one that's like, I think it illustrates the best what the Jerry Hunter relationship was about creatively and like what the sort of the greatness of that pairing, which I put up with, you know, even though he was not, you know, officially like a player in the band, I put it up with Lennon McCartney, like in terms of the, you know, just the synthesis that they had together and the way that they complemented each other.
Alex PappademasGUEST
And what it is, I think, is that Jerry knows what to take away.
Alex PappademasGUEST
Hunter presents this vast sort of like, you know, you know, top chef kind of played table of ingredients or something.
Brian BakerGUEST
I mean, it's all...
John DrenningGUEST
It's very Lennon-McCartney.
Brian BakerGUEST
Yeah,
John DrenningGUEST
it is.
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