Becoming Bernard Webb: McCartney Secretly Deceived His Critics in 1966.
In 1966, Paul McCartney proved that he was more than just a Beatle…
The Beatles rose in the ranks of the charts in 1963 and ’64, what immediately set them apart was that they could write their tunes, which was rare enough. But Lennon and McCartney were writing songs on another level.
The press, with an insatiable appetite for controversy, suggested that the group’s unbroken streak of chart-toppers might be riding the coattails of their initial wave of Beatlemania hysteria.
Could it really be the music, or were fans simply caught up in a wave of devotion, buying everything the band dropped?
These questions gnawed at McCartney, leaving him to wonder if there was a grain of truth to the claim.
But what happened next put the critics to shame. The critics unleashed a prowling tiger.
Often, Lennon and McCartney gave songs to other artists to cover that they felt inferior to the Beatles’ brand — their C-List Tier of songs. But the songs were credited to Lennon-McCartney regardless of which…
