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[[File:1964-Lennon-McCartney (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|[[Paul McCartney]] and [[John Lennon]] in 1964]]
'''Lennon–McCartney''' was the [[Songwriter|songwriting]] partnership between English musicians [[John Lennon]] (1940–1980) and [[Paul McCartney]] (born 1942) of [[the Beatles]]. It is widely considered one of the greatest, best known and most successful musical collaborations ever by records sold, with the Beatles selling over 600 million records worldwide {{as of|2004|lc=y}}.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://money.cnn.com/2009/09/04/news/companies/beatles_video_game/|title=Beatles' remastered box set, video game out|date=9 September 2009|publisher=[[CNNMoney.com]]|access-date=1 December 2011|archive-date=15 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180915183858/https://money.cnn.com/2009/09/04/news/companies/beatles_video_game/|url-status=live}}</ref> Between 5 October 1962 and 8 May 1970, the partnership published approximately 180 jointly credited songs, of which the vast majority were recorded by the Beatles, forming the bulk of their catalogue.
Unlike many songwriting partnerships that comprise a separate lyricist and composer, such as [[George Gershwin|George]] and [[Ira Gershwin]], [[Rodgers and Hammerstein|Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II]], or [[Elton John]] and [[Bernie Taupin]], both Lennon and McCartney wrote lyrics and music. Sometimes, especially early on, they would collaborate extensively when writing songs, working "eyeball to eyeball" as Lennon phrased it.{{sfn|Sheff|2000|p=137}} During the latter half of their partnership, it became more common for either of them to write most of a song on their own with minimal input from the other, and sometimes none at all. By an agreement made before the Beatles became famous, Lennon and McCartney were credited equally with songs that either one of them wrote while their partnership lasted.
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