Fascinated by psychology, Ian Leslie found much to sink his teeth into in the relationship between the two greatest Beatles.

From Lennon and McCartney’s famous meeting at a July 1957 village fête to The Beatles’ recorded corpus itself—an incredible ...

"What it seems to be most like is a romance," said "John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs" author Ian Leslie of Lennon and ...

John & Paul,' a new book by journalist Ian Leslie, explores the intricacies of their complicated relationship Jeff Hochberg/Getty John Lennon and Paul McCartney changed the world with the 162 ...

Lennon and McCartney early on developed a personal and creative chemistry that allowed them to elevate each other’s work to ...

Ian Leslie relies on other Beatles books, gossip and interpreting lyrics to try to define the relationship between band's ...

Donor-Advised Funds Support KQED by using your donor-advised fund to make a charitable gift. Ian Leslie’s John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs, takes a detailed look — 426 pages — at how John Lennon and ...

T Bone Burnett reviews Ian Leslie’s “John & Paul,” which explores the partnership of “two extraordinarily gifted young men.” By T Bone Burnett T Bone Burnett is a Grammy- and Academy ...

Ian Leslie's “John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs,” takes a detailed look — 426 pages — at how John Lennon and Paul McCartney worked together from their meeting as teenagers until John’s ...

John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs by Ian Leslie opens by recounting the above scene in painstaking detail. The author has done this, he explains to me today, not “to suggest that Paul was a ...

I meet Leslie at his publisher’s office one early February afternoon. He brings with him a heavy cold and a takeaway lunch from Pret, which he works his way through while we speak, removing successive ...