For the Friendship between Kirk & Spock in the Kelvin Timeline Films, the Memory Alpha  Star Trek website notes that 

The  influence on which screenwriters Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman based Kirk and Spock's relationship was the friendship between Paul McCartney and John Lennon, two very different musicians who bonded early in life, partly because they both suffered through the loss of a parent (in Kirk's case, his father, and in Spock's, his mother) 

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