A Toot and A Snore – John Lennon and Paul McCartney
From the minute Paul McCartney announced The Beatles’ breakup, every Fab fan went into denial. There was no way that the greatest band in the world had called it quits, and even if they did decide to call it a day, surely they would find some time to play together again, right? Well, most people were half-right there, but aside from some of the band members contributing to each other’s albums, the damage done between Macca and John Lennon would take longer to heal.
It got nasty towards the end of their playing days, but by the time of Lennon’s “lost weekend”, he and his old friend had made up enough to be on speaking terms. Even when McCartney was in town when Lennon was recording his album, the idea of them jamming together was on the table, but once they actually bothered to press record and have a laugh together again, each of them knew one thing: no one in the world should hear this.
What is essentially a jam session, A Toot and a Snore is ‘The Nerk Twins’ and Stevie Wonder trying to make the best music they can and sounding like they are entirely out of their element. To their credit, they probably weren’t in the best frame of mind to be back together, and the drugs may have been doing most of the talking back then, but considering what they had been working on before, they had enough sense to realise how heartbroken fans would sound if this had a mainstream release.