[Michael.SF.]

Paul proved (after he left the Beatles), how important of a factor John Lennon was to the success of their songs.

Now he sounds like a whiner.

[hinckley buzzard]

73 year-old geezer needs to let go.

[Steely Tom]

Paul wrote catchy riffs and cutesy words about love.

John wrote words capable of inspiring a serial killer to raise an army of serial killer disciples.

[AU72]

MCartney is suffering from Irish Alzheimer's.

Forgets everything except the grudges.

[JoeProBono]

I never really appreciated the Beatles. Still don’t.

[BigEdLB]

Paul is jealous because John Lennon has a crater named after him on Mercury

[a fool in paradise]

Paul McCartney is indeed our greatest living rock star. His story is THE story of post-Tin Pan Alley music.

We got away from "Tin Pan Alley" music for awhile but it's back.

And when George Martin cast the Beatles as an early boy band, he made them ditch the leather jackets for suits and had them sing "tin pan"/"brill" song factory covers and some ballads in with "their own contributions".

It took them a number of albums before they got to be 'themselves' and even that was song factory production. Paul got tired of it and suggested that they "become" Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band where they could write material that didn't fit the old "Beatle music" mold. And after that, they increasingly became soloists working on albums together (and keeping Ringo out of it).

Woodstock folkies brought us to an era of financially successful singer-songwriters but other bands still had music created for them (some bands were even offered a 'hit' that they did not write and wouldn't be recording in the studio, session musicians would be hired, they'd play it live and make the public appearances in print and on tv/radio).

We haven't gotten away from "tin pan alley", people just can't find "the building" anymore.

[Celtic Conservative]

After their success with the Beatles, both Paul and John Had egos the size of Cleveland. And they both had remarkable success afterward. But I get where Paul is coming from with the “revisionism” remark. The death of a popular or beloved person tends to increase their “legend” or memory, sometimes out of proportion to their actual accomplishments. In short, there always was a rivalry between Paul and John and death doesn’t seem to have stopped it.

CC

[Telepathic Intruder]

Here they go again. Someone call Ringo.

[Snickering Hound]

King of the hippies is way overrated.

[God luvs America]

John Lennon could’ve had any chick in the world- he had to have lost a bet which is why he ended up with Yoko....

[Jack Hydrazine]

“I remember when Robert Christgau wrote, ‘they got the wrong Beatle.’ Insane.”

[driftless2]

Both of them pretty much stank after the breakup. "Imagine" is actually an exceptionally maudlin, dopey, pie in the sky, hippy dream song. McCartney's post Beatle work was mostly crap as well. But before the breakup, McCartney's songs were overall better.

I play the Beatles on my guitar. Most of the songs with the best melody lines are McCartney's. They both wrote excellent songs, but that ended with the split. Then they both went downhill fast. After the split, Harrison's and yes, EVEN!!! Ringo's songs were better.

[4yearlurker]

I think it’s time to put The Beatles baby to bed and give him a rest.

[John 3_19-21]

The Beatles will always be a band that was greater than the sum of their parts.

Not a Lennon fan, I gotta go with Paul on this one. How do you ever compete with a martyr?

IMHO 1969-70 John cared for no one or anything and would have dragged the Beatles down into the pits of hell just because he could.
Paul was a showman and superior musician and just wanted to make music live and often.

[skeeter]

I'm glad the writer wrote what he did about 'Let Em In".

Wings made some really good stuff, but some exceedingly crappy stuff too.

[KevinB]

Paul McCartney is the gay lover of Udumbo. Eff him (and I love the Beatles).

[SeaHawkFan]

Yokohama Ono screwed up the Beatles and is one of the ugliest women of all time.

[Nevadan]

re: But McCartney says he really resented her after Lennon died because she kept saying that “John was everything” in the Beatles. He says: “But then strange things would happen. Like Yoko would appear in the press, and I’d read it, and it said [comedy Yoko accent], “Paul did nothing! All he did was book the studio…”

I am sympathetic with Paul on this one. The Beatles were an amazing band as long as they were together. Not so great apart. But who was Yoko but the crazy, weird, talentless, controlling wife of one of the band members, who has managed to ride and milk the band's success all these years after her husband was killed. If John had lived I imagine that at some point they would have divorced. But what a gravy train she has and continues to enjoy.

[Williams]

I think those commenting on John Lennon post Beatles are forgetting, or unaware, that he was a huge alcoholic/ womanizer for years and that he had just returned to Yoko and started to get himself in order when he was shot.

So that may explain why he doesn’t have as many hits after leaving the Beatles.

The Beatles were simply fantastic. Sad they broke up.

Yes Paul is foolish to say that stuff but it sounds honest.

[Talisker]

"John did this, John did that. 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.”

Oh shut up, Bill. LOL!