From Leiber and Stoller to Lennon and McCartney: the alchemy of the duo

Songwriting duos have given pop some of its finest moments. Laura Barton looks at how they work – and what happens when they don't'We started fighting the moment we met," Mike Stoller once said of his songwriting partnership with Jerry Leiber. "We fought about words, we fought about music. We fought about everything." Yet for all the quarrels and the bickering, Leiber's death this week, at the age of 78, brought to an end a creative partnership that had lasted more than six decades, and produc...

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