's really ... everything! I've no responsibility to anyone now" (Goldman, p.77). This abandonment is clearly shown through his later songs and writings. Songs such as "A Hard Days Night" and "Nowhere Man" express the anger and pain of John's search for the love he never had.
             John taught himself to play music. First he was interested in pop music. Using a mouth organ he began duplicating the songs he heard on the radio. Also, his mother knew how to play the banjo. When visiting her, he loved listening to her music so much that she bought him a secondhand guitar. John taught himself to play that guitar in spite of his aunt, Mimi Smith, his mother's sister who was raising him at the time. A strict disciplinarian, Mimi would not allow John to bring a guitar into her home. She believed that he would never make a living that way. Nevertheless, John learned to play the guitar and formed his first group, The Quarrymen. While playing with this group, John Lennon was introduced to Paul McCartney.
             Paul balanced John in two ways: he knew more about music and came from a strong family background. Paul McCartney, like the rest of the Beatles, was brought up in a lower class than John. Paul's father, Jim McCartney, was a salesperson in the Liverpool Cotton Exchange. After losing everything when the market collapsed, he survived by working hard and minding his money. These are the same qualities that Paul has demonstrated throughout his life. Paul's mother was a successful mid-wife until she died in 1966. Paul had to work for what he earned, nothing was ever given to him. This big difference in John and Pauls' childhood was that John was from a broken home whereas Paul came from a loving family who had values would later become apparent in their music.
             "Paul learned music from his father who was also a musician with a local ragtime band" (Goldman p.68). When Paul was 1...