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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I liked Maccas first few solo albums, Ram was one of the first albums I ever got as a kid, still think it’s great. At times as good as anything he did with The Beatles.
She certainly broke me up.
Still does.
Dennis Leary put it best:
“What kind of country is this, where John Lennon gets six bullets in the chest, and Yoko was standing right next to him and not one bullet? Explain THAT to me!”
One world /sarcasm ON.
Lennon and Ono a study in self absorption, much like Hillary finally growing up to realize there are other people in the world and it’s not about Her, or Them.
“Four thousand holes in Blackburn Lancashire-— now we know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall”-— all that from making up a song from the newspaper.
Maybe it is true anyone can do that. But there are very few who could write Eleanor Rigby or Yesterday— and Paul did that (not too much from Lennon there).
And Johnny Carson said something as funny:
“There’s no justice in this world, if there were Elvis would still be alive and all those Elvis impersonators would be dead”.
But then, anyone could write “We are sorry Uncle Albert”!
Or my all-time favorite Beatles song, “Penny Lane” the perfect pop song. Wonderful melody....Lennon couldn’t touch that if he tried.
‘Imagine’ is not a Beatles song.
Paul McCartney? I thought he was dead?!
Instant Karma?
Yoko was enraged by her husband's radial change in political orientation and there was a lot of real angry stress in their relationship in its final years. The question always has been did she in cahoots with some other ‘progressives’ in Hawaii arrange for the obsessed and crazed fan to be brought to NYC to eliminate Lennon before he started to divorce Yoko and pull his fortune away from ‘progressive causes’.
Some claim that Paul was the best guitarist as well as bassist, I like his lead playing more than Harrison’s. Not bad on the drums either. He played all the instruments on his first solo album.
Lead guitar break on “Taxman” is played by Paul.
I was shocked to learn that was Macca’s solo on Taxman, considering it was a Harrison song, and his solo had a heavy Indian influence, which definitely suggested it would have been Harrison.
Yes, I do know that, but it came out of the Beatles thing. Didn’t like them as a group, really didn’t like Lennon.
This is the replacement Paul, not the original one who died in a car accident.
The investigators in 1966, said he lost control of his Austin-Healey sports car because of his greasy hands holding the steaks that he was constantly chewing on when he wasn’t performing in stdio, or on stage.
Senility.
Probably not.
Only relevant to people who live in the upper west side of Manhattan and the left coast. Everyone else works for a living.
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