The Lennon-McCartney duo: Tensions and conflicts that turned into music

By: Nick Duerden / The Independent On December 9, 1980, Paul McCartney emerged from a London recording studio to a throng of reporters. He had been there all day while the rest of the world was struggling to come to terms with the news that John Lennon, his one-time Beatles bandmate, had been murdered in New York the night before. Lennon was 40. When McCartney emerged, he was chewing gum. The press immediately surrounded him with extended microp…