[weegee]

Another article here:

Sir Paul McCartney: I was the anti-war Beatle. (The Times (UK) December 14, 2008 Maurice Chittenden)

[weegee]

Rock and Roll Pingko.

[mnehring]

Taking credit for John Lennon’s work again?

[trisham]

He’s senile.

[MahatmaGandu]

Oh, I see. John Lennon the Commie had nothing to do with politcising the Beatles. Uh, huh. Right.

[pray4liberty]

Typical liberals...always living in the past and in the world of ought to be, because the reality of now, which they helped to create, is unpalatable.

[gundog]

Well, if you can’t believe Bill Clinton’s favorite Beatle, who can you believe?

[TonyStark]

This is what a lifetime of vegetarianism does to the brain.
“One leg short of a trophy wife”.

[skeeter]

"He told me about the Vietnam war – most of us didn't know about it, it wasn't yet in the papers – and also that it was a very bad war."

Thats deep, man.

[Reagan79]

Who cares? The Beatles suck! I’m not a baby boom weenie so I don’t care.

[70th Division]

You would have been a lot better off Paul, if someone would have told you about GOD!

[skully]

...Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da as a commentary on American neo-colonialism....

and here I always thought this song was just drug induced babble. But then again I grew up in the real world, not in the 60’s. so maybe I missed something groovy in the translation...man.

[mjp]

I’m back in the U.S.S.R. hey
You don’t know how lucky you are boy
Back in the U.S.S.R.

[InvisibleChurch]

You never see Paulie going on and on saying, “I wrote Silly Love Songs!”

[neocon1984]

Well, they did not start out as lefties. I believe it was McCartney who wrote “Taxman”.

[Revolting cat!]

The stupid groupie wives from privileged backgrounds is who politicized the Beetles!

[skikvt]

Tried listing to some of the Beatles the other day. Sir Paul wrote the most mind numbing insipid and banal songs in their archive. Only Georges songs really survive the test of time...

[domani]

You’re right It was Harrison who wrote it. McCartney did do the fine lead work on that particular song though which I always thought was interesting.

[Billthedrill]

Russell was not firing on all cylinders mentally by then either, being heavily under the influence of Ralph Schoenman, an anti-war activist who later became the director of the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation.

None of the Beatles were educated men, to be charitable - musical geniuses but political toddlers. If McCartney wants to take credit for politicizing a not particularly political music group, so be it. I'd be more interested to learn who really turned them all onto LSD. That, IMHO, was a lot more infulential than politics.

[Smittie]

Why don’t any of these old geezer rockers from the ‘60’s know when to just retire & shut up? Who cares what he says?