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Paul's mother passed away of breast cancer October 31, 1956 when Paul was 14. John Lennon's mother Julia died on July 15, 1958 tragically after being struck by a car in front of John's home where he lived with Julia's sister Mimi. John and Paul did bond over this although their respective relationships with their mothers were very different.

John wrote I'm Only Sleeping.

John began to write more personal lyrics after listening to Dylan who showed Lennon it was possible to produce songs that were deeper and more personal to the songwriter.

You've Got To Hide Your Love Away was John's first truly Dylan inspired song.

Hey Jude was written by Paul for Julian Lennon after John and Cynthia Lennon split up after Cynthia came home to find Yoko and John in her house. John thought it was about him and Paul was approving, telling him to follow his heart with Yoko Ono. All You Need is Love was probably written mostly by John. John claimed he wrote it without help from Paul but Paul claims he contributed to it. Rarely did they disagree on who wrote or mainly wrote a song.

One of the lesser known things credited to The Beatles, as if they need more credit was they were truly the pioneers of music video in my opinion. Many future video concepts were largely based on the ideas from Beatles videos and the movie Help! and to a certain extent A Hard Days Night.

Check out the video, a studio performance of You're Going to Lose That Girl. It easily could have been made today and been a success.

Paul probably wrote a few songs about Jane Asher who he met in April 1963 backstage at Albert Hall.

The Beatles had also just met the Stones a few days earlier and had seen the Stones perform I believe at The Crawdaddy Club in London. At least Mick Jagger and Keith Richard were in attendance at the performance.

If I Fell was mainly written by John.

All My Loving was written by Paul before 1963.

Love Me Do was also written mainly by John although Paul ended up on lead vocals for the recording sessions because of the harmonica intro. Paul said he hadn't done the intro for Love Me Do ever before and didn't even know how to do it.

The reasons for the Beatles breakup were practically endless. All of these answers are correct.

It's by no means a complete list.

John said it was like going through the messiest divorce and blamed it on the Beatles Manager, Brian Epstein's death in 1967.

Did you know Iris became a professional dancer and her brother Alan was Rory Storm of Rory Storm and The Hurricanes, a top Liverpool Band in the late 50's and into the 60's? Ringo was the a member of the Hurricanes as their drummer before taking his legendary spot in the band.

I Want To Hold Your Hand went #1 in 1964, their first chart topper (the top of the poppermost in John's words). They performed it during their first Ed Sullivan Show their first appearance in America on February 9, 1964.

Both John and Cynthia Lennon commented later that George used to follow them around and try to tag along wherever they were going. Most of the time they'd let him join them if they were going somewhere like the movies.

George was 2 years younger in high school while John and Cynthia were in art college.