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(Credits: Far Out \/ Eric Koch \/ Anefo \/ Nationaal Archief \/ CMA \/ Warner Records.)<\/p>\n
Fri 6 February 2026 18:00, UK <\/p>\n
The cornerstone of every great Beatles song was that push and pull between John Lennon<\/a> and Paul McCartney. <\/p>\n Both of them were equally great at what they did, but their approach to music was always going to be what made every song better and also what tore them apart by the end of the group. But even if they were able to go their separate ways and be equally as great, Lennon remembered not having nearly as much love for every single band that the Fab Four took under their wing.<\/p>\n Granted, that\u2019s not what they were designed to do in the first place. Apple Records did have a lot of great talent on its roster, but there was no doubt that people were interested in the label for The Beatles first and the rest of the bands second. But, really, it was better for the band to put their money back into the service of making music rather than have to worry about putting it into taxes later in life.<\/p>\n Hell, even the first few records coming out on the label weren\u2019t half bad, either. Billy Preston could turn any song he touched into gold when he started playing, and while Badfinger may have had a bit of help from McCartney when working on \u2018Come and Get It<\/a>\u2019 and even got George Harrison to do the guitar solo on \u2018Day After Day\u2019, they were the benchmark for what power pop was always supposed to be. <\/p>\n But none of them would have been possible without James Taylor kicking the door down for everyone else. Taylor was among the first people that the band signed, and when listening to a lot of his records, it wasn\u2019t hard to see what made him so great. He had been learning all of the greatest songs to play with Carole King when she started performing live, but the beautiful picking parts that turned up on \u2018Carolina In My Mind\u2019 and \u2018Fire and Rain\u2019 wouldn\u2019t have felt out of place next to Macca\u2019s brilliant ballads.<\/p>\n So it makes sense that McCartney was the one ushering him through the door. Harrison may have been enamoured with the song title \u2018Something in the Way She Moves\u2019 when writing his own classic, but for someone that was already out in left field like Lennon was, he wasn\u2019t exactly thrilled with albums that were so downtempo and sleepy as Sweet Baby James was when it came out.<\/p>\n