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Paul McCartney Reignites Decades Old Feud with Yoko Ono, Recalls Lennon Resentments
Yahoo news ^ | July 5, 2015 | Roger Friedman

Posted on 07/05/2015 5:48:58 PM PDT by Michael.SF.

The other big quote from the interview which will live on:

“When John got shot, aside from the pure horror of it, the lingering thing was, OK, well now John’s a martyr. A JFK. So what happened was, I started to get frustrated because people started to say, “Well, he was The Beatles.” And me, George and Ringo would go, “Er, hang on. It’s only a year ago we were all equal-ish.”

Yeah, John was the witty one, sure. John did a lot of great work, yeah. And post-Beatles he did more great work, but he also did a lot of not-great work. Now the fact that he’s now martyred has elevated him to a James Dean, and beyond. So whilst I didn’t mind that – I agreed with it – I understood that now there was going to be revisionism.”

(Excerpt) Read more at showbiz411.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: beatlemania; johnlennon; paulmccartney; rogerfriedman; walrus; yokoono
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To: 4yearlurker
That's the official story. But it has always been controversial.

For example: http://solobeatles.com/2012/12/11/georges-original-version-of-it-dont-come-easy/

Whatever the real story, Harrison had at least as much to do with writing the song as Ringo. Even in the "official" version of events, Ringo only wrote the lyrics to the first verse, Harrison wrote, arranged, and produced the rest.

Personally, as much as I like Ringo, it sounds like and probably was originally a Harrison song.

81 posted on 07/05/2015 7:18:38 PM PDT by FredZarguna (Now, which is bigger, Pluto or Goofy?)
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To: FredZarguna
It Don't Come Easy is the best post Beatles tune. Now ... who actually wrote it?

George Harrison.

82 posted on 07/05/2015 7:20:24 PM PDT by KevinB (Barack Obama: Our first black, gay, Kenyan, Socialist, Muslim president!)
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To: Michael.SF.
I know I've heard enough of silly love songs.

He had a couple of good tunes in the old days, but clearly Lennon was powerhouse writer.

83 posted on 07/05/2015 7:23:34 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18 - Be The Leaderless Resistance)
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To: Michael.SF.

He was jealous of John. what? Would he rather have been the one to be shot dead and martyred? No, ok so shut up, Paul. Grow up and thank God, or whatever you call Him, that you lived twice as long as he did and got to be a grandfather, etc etc etc.


84 posted on 07/05/2015 7:24:16 PM PDT by uncitizen
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To: Still Thinking

IIRC George wrote Taxman


85 posted on 07/05/2015 7:27:48 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: The Antiyuppie

How nice would you be if an ex-Beatle has-been stole YOUR wooden leg ;)


86 posted on 07/05/2015 7:28:00 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: big'ol_freeper
"Genius is Pain/Magical Misery Tour" from National Lampoon's Radio Dinner album pretty much sums John Lennon up in the early post breakup years.

Everything in the parody was actually said by Lennon at one time or another. About 90% of it is straight from Lennon Remembers. You can listen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVDpPX37fkU Warning: the language -- straight from Lennon's mouth -- would probably make your drill instructor sound like the Church Lady. Definitely NSFW.

87 posted on 07/05/2015 7:28:02 PM PDT by FredZarguna (Now, which is bigger, Pluto or Goofy?)
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To: KevinB

I lean to that theory myself.


88 posted on 07/05/2015 7:28:57 PM PDT by FredZarguna (Now, which is bigger, Pluto or Goofy?)
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To: a fool in paradise

All things must pass, and you’d better don’t invest your precious 401K dimes into the publishing rights of the Beetles catalog whose value diminishes with our every breath.

I mean, look, somebody here had to look up ‘Tin Pan Alley’! Beatles forever? Elvis forever? Sure, as long as forever lasts until your funeral. (Anticipating responses referring to one’s grandkids liking Laugh Me Do, I say but not their grandkids!)


89 posted on 07/05/2015 7:29:56 PM PDT by Ventilator on
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To: Michael.SF.

Yes, but who can forget Linda’s the photogroupie’s backup vocals and piano virtuosity on Macca’s disks?


90 posted on 07/05/2015 7:29:56 PM PDT by Ventilator on
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To: Mariner

Neither was. Like Page and Plant, neither was a fraction as good without the other.


91 posted on 07/05/2015 7:30:29 PM PDT by FredZarguna (Now, which is bigger, Pluto or Goofy?)
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To: Snickering Hound
`Li'l Abner' cartoonist Al Capp had some fun with John and the Human Dog Whistle during this stunt. They were accepting visitors. Yoko Ono photo:  john-yoko003.jpg
92 posted on 07/05/2015 7:31:15 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

As I recall, 25 years on, Sir Paul wanted to change the credit on “Yesterday” from Lennon-McCartney to McCartney-Lennon, as it was basically all his, and Yoko said uh-uh.

From the Beatles era, I prefer John to Paul (”She Said”, “Rain”, “Revolution”, “Ballad of John and Yoko”) but overall prefer them as a team to pretty much anything they did after The Breakup. I’ve also come around to the realization (thanks, immersion-level Beatle fan friends) that George wound up great either way, and Ringo was the beating heart of the whole works, plus he had the first big hit post-Beatles, with “It Don’t Come Easy” (co-written with George, at least).

The actual interview is here:

http://www.esquire.co.uk/culture/music/8511/paul-mccartney-interview/


93 posted on 07/05/2015 7:33:40 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Actually, I recently read that john had moved rightward toward the end. The story I read mentioned some conservative literature on his night stand.

Still a hippie though


94 posted on 07/05/2015 7:33:50 PM PDT by Stand W ("Gentlemen! You can't fight in here! This is the WAR ROOM!")
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To: hinckley buzzard

No, Ono is a gold-digging, talentless dirtbag who needs to be called out. Thank God she dumped my favorite artist, Al Stewart, before she conned John Lennon. Bob


95 posted on 07/05/2015 7:33:52 PM PDT by alstewartfan (If I should live to be seven I might forget Stephanie. Al Stewart)
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To: Kozy

Neither does the other fiend, Heather Mills.


96 posted on 07/05/2015 7:35:37 PM PDT by alstewartfan (If I should live to be seven I might forget Stephanie. Al Stewart)
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To: Talisker

He hasn’t been the same since the Tories beat his ass in May.


97 posted on 07/05/2015 7:36:34 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: FredZarguna; 4yearlurker; KevinB

I prefer Ringo’s recording, but here’s the demo:

George Harrison’s “It Don’t Come Easy”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvtoM0xiWMk


98 posted on 07/05/2015 7:38:16 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: kjam22

They both clicked together (imo) and it was just one of those historical things .... like the founders all living at the same time and having the same mindset ... and determination.


99 posted on 07/05/2015 7:40:07 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true .... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: alstewartfan
Thank God she dumped my favorite artist, Al Stewart, before she conned John Lennon.

I'm also a big Al Stewart fan. Who better to be dumped by than Yoko? She is painful to listen to: "singing" or otherwise.

100 posted on 07/05/2015 7:43:41 PM PDT by windsorknot
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