Songwriter John Lennon's audacious claim in 1966 that the band was "more popular than Jesus" incited a severe backlash from American Christians and is often cited as a factor in The Beatles' decision to stop touring that year.

The Beatles song Baby, You're a Rich Man was written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and was released as the B-side to the All You Need Is Love single in 1967

'Baby, You're a Rich Man' famously featured at the end of David Fincher's 2010 film 'The Social Network', which charts the invention of Facebook. As the film closes, Mark Zuckerberg (played by Jesse Eisenberg) continually refreshes his internet browser, seeing if his friend request to ex-girlfriend Erica Albright has been accepted.

At 82 years old, McCartney has joked about how outdated the song now seems. He once recalled a conversation with a pianist who played music for senior citizens and had to make an

Paul McCartney and John Lennon forged an iconic songwriting team, pivotal to The Beatles' extraordinary success. Their collaboration dominated the band's creative output, attributed under the joint Lennon-McCartney moniker,

According to Mark Lewisohn, a Beatles biographer, Paul, then around 19 or 20, worked on the chords at the home of fellow Liverpool musician Rory Storm on October 22, 1962 and wrote much of the lyrics during a visit to London with his then-girlfriend Celia Mortimer, who was 17 at that point.

Paul McCartney, Self-portraits in a mirror at the George V Hotel, Paris, January 1964 (detail), courtesy of the artist and Gagosian. After a packed week

The Beatles' early songs were all about love but that changed when John Lennon started to feel dissatisfied, ultimately leading him to write Nowhere Man

Paul McCartney has opened up about his crippling self-doubt in the wake of The Beatles' split, and how it led him to create one of his most beloved solo albums