Paul McCsrtney: The Beatles’ success ‘couldn’t happen again’ | The List

In a startling display of candor, Paul McCartney has admitted that the 1980 killing of John Lennon unfairly elevated his status within the Beatles. “It’s only a year ago we were all equal-ish.'”.

He explained: “When John got shot, aside from the pure horror of it, the lingering thing was, OK, well now John’s a martyr. Hang on! All I did was book the f***ing studio?'”. “We all played, which is pretty hard”, he said.

As Paul points out, John’s experimentation and boldness to try new things sometimes resulted in musical brilliance… but sometimes not.

“Yeah, John was the witty one, sure”. But that was just part of it. There was a lot of revisionism: John did this, John did that. And post-Beatles he did more great work, but he also did a lot of not-great work. Now the fact that he’s martyred has elevated him to a James Dean. It was going to be: “John was the one”.

He said Beatles’ manager Brian Epstein was behind the crucial act of crediting “Lennon and McCartney” – even if Paul had written songs alone. “I shouldn’t say this about Her Majesty but we, as schoolboys, we said, “Look at the f***in” heave on her’!” ‘We were thinking we ought to call the songs, Lennon and McCartney.’ I said, ‘That’s OK, but what about McCartney and Lennon?

Paul McCartney revealed that he was a bit jealous of how fans responded to John Lennon’s death. “It sounds good, too, ‘” McCartney said (via The Telegraph).

Emwazi, who is believed to have killed five hostages, was part of a four strong British born terrorist group dubbed The Beatles by the prisoners that they abducted. Oh, yeah. We were like 11, she was 21 and good looking. “And I didn’t mind”.

What do you do when you’re one quarter of arguably the greatest rock band of all time, and you break up on top only to have your ex- songwriting partner murdered by a crazed fanatic?

He also confirmed he had no plans to retire any time soon: “I still enjoy writing, I still enjoy singing. So it’s kind of important who comes first”, McCartney said of the digital margins. Visitors can see a large number of photos and personal items of the Beatle singers as well as more than 250 newspaper and magazine articles about the Fab Four – Lennon, McCartney, Starr and Harrison. “I mean, if you just pull out all his great stuff and then stack it up against my not-so-great stuff, it’s an easy case to make”.