Sorry, John Lennon, but Paul Simon thinks Paul McCartney had the best songwriting chops amongst The Beatles. In a recent interview the musician addressed who he'd put in the pantheon of popular songwriters, saying: "I'd put Gershwin, Berlin and Hank Williams. I'd probably put Paul McCartney in there too. Then I'd have Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. Then, in the second tier, Lennon is there, Dylan is there, Bob Marley and Stephen Sondheim are there, and maybe I'm there, too. It's about whose songs last." In that case, he forgot Rebecca Black!
----gothamist.com
