2025-04-16
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Hello everyone and welcome back to Conversations with Tyler today.
I'm delighted to be chatting with Ian Leslie He has a new book out which I just loved it is called John and Paul a love story and songs and
if you know anything about Ian or about me You will know that John and Paul is John Lennon and Paul McCartney Namely a big part of the Beatles Ian in fact has many other accomplishments and writings But today is not generalist day today is Beatles day So Ian,
welcome to the show.
Hello Tyler, it is an honor to be here.
I have so many questions.
How is it that John got to be such a great songwriter so quickly?
If you look at the early songs, like If I Fell, Not A Second Time, Please Please Me,
It Won't Be Long, All I've Got To Do, they seem to come from nowhere.
So Paul builds up and eventually is doing Hey Jude, Golden Slumbers.
But John, who supposedly is lazy, just starts.
with incredible creations.
How does that happen?
It's a good question and I don't have a definitive answer but perhaps it's connected to what you were saying.
John was less methodical than Paul,