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Originally Posted by timbo
John was the mastermind behind Beatlemania in the early days, he was the driving force , his genius supplied the rocket fuel behind the Beatles meteoric rise to fame. I feel that so many of the early songs are his alone, songs like ' I want to hold your hand ' and 'She loves You' for example. I don t think Paul had very much to do with them.
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Regarding "She Loves You", John Lennon said in an interview in 1980:
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"It was written together (with Paul) and I don't remember how. I remember it was Paul's idea — instead of singing 'I love you' again, we'd have a third party. The 'Woooo' was taken from the Isley Brothers' 'Twist and Shout,' which we stuck into everything."
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Regarding "I Want To Hold Your Hand", Lennon said in a September 1980 interview with Playboy magazine (published in December of that year):
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"We wrote a lot of stuff together, one on one, eyeball to eyeball. Like in 'I Want To Hold Your Hand,' I remember when we got the chord that made the song. We were in Jane Asher's house, downstairs in the cellar playing on the piano at the same time. And we had, 'Oh you-u-u/ got that something...' And Paul hits this chord, and I turn to him and say, 'That's it!' I said, 'Do that again!' In those days, we really used to absolutely write like that—both playing into each other's noses."
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In 2007, Timbo said:
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Originally Posted by Timbo
"I feel that so many of the early songs are his alone, songs like ' I want to hold your hand ' and 'She loves You' for example. I don t think Paul had very much to do with them."
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Conclusion: Timbo thought and "felt" wrong.