Posted on 11/11/2012 7:30:05 PM PST by Olog-hai
Sir Paul McCartney has admitted that “it wasn’t that bad a thing” for John Lennon to leave the Beatles and said that Yoko Ono did not break up group.
In an interview with Sir David Frost for Al Jazeera, Sir Paul, 70, said the departure of John Lennon from the band in 1969 was expected by the whole group. …
Sir Paul also absolved Yoko Ono, Mr. Lennon’s then-wife of responsibility for the group breaking up. “She certainly didn’t break the group up,” he said. “The group was breaking up and I think she attracted John so much to another way of life that he then went on to, very successfully, add a sort of second part to his career, writing things like ‘Imagine’ and ‘Give Peace a Chance’. I don’t think he would have done that without Yoko.” …
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He meant, piece.
My wife was a big Beatles fan in her youth, and when they released the “cleaned-up” and remastered albums, she had to have them.
THIS IS A BIG MISTAKE.
Out of a mono, six inch oval speaker in the middle of the dashboard, the Beatles sounded great. Out of a quality CD player through a quality stereo and good speakers - Yikes!
The first three albums (when they just went into the studio and recorded) are really awful. McCartney walks all over the bass line. Whoever is playing drums (reportedly not Ringo) hits a snare drum in an infantile beat. The singing is off key, and the guitars are almost never on the same page.
After the first three albums, George Martin took over and used multi-track recording to really improve things.]
Boy, after growing up listening to that music on a car radio - what a depressing revelation.
Now Macca wants to give credit for the dastardly deed to his dead ex out of tune backup singer Linda. Sheesh!
And Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds was not about lysergic acid diethylamide, so incredibly high.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK2hKzZss5Y
Paul McCartney & WINGS - Live And Let Die
Shortened, that would make a great tagline.
What the heck is that? - he played left handed
Ya think that since the peg leg left him and took his cash, Paulie’s got the hots for Yoko and her bank account?
Details, who cares about the details?!
I enjoy the fact his ex, Heather Mills, said he took her fake leg.
He did? It cost him, what, $200 mill?! I only heard that he used to beat her with it!
LMAO...British titles are about as big of a joke as a Noble Prize.
I love going to those All-Starr Band concerts. You get to see different handfuls of old timers do three of their greatest hits each. Where else could you see Jack Bruce (Cream) perform ‘White Room’, and Gary Brooker (Procol Harum) perform ‘Whiter Shade of Pale’, and Paul Carrack (Ace, Squeeze, Mike + the Mechanics) perform ‘How Long’, ‘Tempted’, Living Years’, and Colin Hay (Men at Work) perform ‘Down Under’ and ‘Who Can It Be Now’, and John Waite (The Babys) perform ‘Missing You’ and Todd Rundgren, Edgar Winters, Joe Walsh, Clarence Clemons, Billy Preston and on and on and on...? No way I would have ever seen all those acts without Ringo putting together a new “band” every two years.
I love those Ringo’s All-Starr Band concerts. ...Seen at least four of them. But then, I’m pretty old.
British tax laws did.
This is important, how? Yoko Ono is a talentless b*tch like so many wealthy so call “artists” who feel they transcend the menial regular world as the “find themselves”-— just boring as hell. And, uh, listen to her sing if you dare. Good Lord, psycho ward.
The real talent in the Beatles was McCartney, and next Harrison. Lennon helped, but his fascination with a dominatrix like yoko escapes most people. And his marxist views were better financed by being separate and with yoko— for one world. The band was breaking up because they were becoming irrelevant.
Lennon was a very good musician (even though “Imagine” is truly one of the most torturous songs I’ve ever listened to- I much prefer “Jealous Guy” or “Mind Games”), but as a human being he wasn’t very good. Look at what he did to Cynthia. Look at how he treated his first son, Julian. Hardly a great person, in my opinion.
I started listening again to the Beatles a lot over the past few years, because my kids love them.....and now it’s obvious that Paul was about 70% of the genius, John about 20%, George 9%, and to be nice I’ll give Ringo 1%. John may have been the leader in the early days, but after 1966, it was pretty much all Paul.
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