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With a little help from my friend: John, Paul and the ‘romance’ that transformed culture
The emotional bond between John and Paul was at the heart of the Beatles’ success – but it’s not the first time intense, creative male friendships have changed the world
Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty ImagesThey made for an odd couple: John spiky, full of bravado, prone to anger; Paul more temperate and socially subtle. There are other examples of passionate and creatively radical male friendships: Richard Wagner and Friedrich Nietzsche; Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin; CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien; Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn. Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky met in 1969 at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, forming the most productive partnership in the history of psychology (a story told in Michael Lewis’s book The Undoing Project).
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