Speaking on an episode of BBC Radio 4's 'This Cultural Life'' that is scheduled to air on Oct. That was his bag.”įor more on this topic, follow The Beatles Observer.LONDON - Paul McCartney has revisited the breakup of The Beatles, flatly refuting the suggestion that he was responsible for the group's demise. “A lot of hurts went down during that period in the early 1970s, them feeling hurt, me feeling hurt, but John being John, he was the one that wrote hurtful songs. “It seemed to me they were all just fucking out of it and making no attempt to do anything sensible.” “So I stood up as the sensible one and said, ‘This is not good.’ Klein wanted 20 per cent, and I said, ‘Let him have 10 per cent if you have to go with him.’ ‘Oh, no, no, no, he wants 20.’ “But not when someone was going to take everything that John, George, Ringo, and I owned, and really worked hard to get.” “I said, ‘Oh, this guy has got such a bad reputation.’ And good old John says, ‘He got badly talked about, he can’t be all bad.’ John had this kind of distorted thinking which was amusing sometimes.”

Allen Klein already had a history with The Rolling Stones.” “Nowadays, people get it but at the time, I think the others felt they were the ones being hurt by my actions. “I had to fight them for my bit of The Beatles, and in fact, for their bit of The Beatles, which many years later they realized and almost thanked me for.” “I suppose that’s a funny pun but all I did was ‘Yesterday,’ ‘Let It Be,’ ‘The Long and Winding Road,’ ‘Eleanor Rigby,’ ‘Lady Madonna…’ Fuck you, John!” “And John said, ‘Hey, that’s great – put that in.’ I can see the laughs doing it and I had to work very hard not to take it too seriously, but at the back of my mind, I was thinking, ‘Wait a minute! All I did was ‘Yesterday’?'” In the song ‘How Do You Sleep,’ the line, ‘The only thing you did is ‘Yesterday,” was apparently Allen Klein’s suggestion.” “John actually had Allen Klein and Yoko in the room suggesting lyrics during writing sessions. “It was three to one because the other two went with John so it was looking as Allen Klein was gonna own our entire Beatle empire. “The whole story, in a nutshell, is we were having a meeting in 1969, and John showed up and said he’d met this guy Allen Klein – and then the matter of fact, John told us he was leaving the band. McCartney continued on to open up about The Beatles’ breakup, revealing how he found out that Lennon was leaving the band. Maybe because we grew up in Liverpool where was always good to get the first punch in the fight.”

I worked hard to come to terms with that, but then when we broke up and everyone was flailing around, John turned nasty.”

“I had been able to accept Yoko in the studio sitting on a blanket in front of my amp. They were all references to people thinking that their own truth was the only truth, which was certainly what was coming from John…” “Although John was a later riser when I would drive to Waybridge, so we could ride together.

“‘Too many people sharing party lines, too many people are grabbing for a slice of cake and a piece of the pie…’ The sleeping late thing, whether that was accurate, whether John and Yoko actually slept in late or not, I’m not sure.” “It was all a bit weird and a bit nasty, and I basically said, ‘Let’s be sensible.’ We had a lot going on for us in The Beatles, and what actually split us up was the business stuff, and that’s pretty pathetic, really, so let’s just try to be peaceful, let’s maybe give peace a chance…” And if you didn’t know the story, I don’t know that you’d be able to guess the anger behind this writing.” “It’s actually a fairly upbeat song, it doesn’t really sound that vitriolic.

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