@@buzzedalldrink9131 I have. I have the big book and that gives quite a story as opposed to the main version. Faul would have to know all the songs they did as kids.Some of the comedy they do in the movie seems like only the real Paul would Know. I just lost my mom a year ago and its still killing me. Lennon and George and Ringo. How could they do it? Tavistock institute teach them some things?
@@FuzzyBuzzBoy Sorry about your Mom I have been there too I agree I would think it would be very difficult to just carry-on as if nothing happened. There were a few key things that did it for me one for physical differences between the real Paul and the replacement cannot be ignored. ever wonder how he learn to play the piano and write songs like Let it Be within a two or three-year period? Do you don’t know anybody could learn to play piano that quickly?
My poor Paulie. He has a softer disposition then John but a stronger will. It had to really hurt to get him that down and out. I've heard stories about it. He wouldn't bathe for days and lived out in the barn for a while. He has spoken of being like this before when he said as a kid, after his Mom died he just be so sad while trying to go about his daily life there's times he felt like he'd pass out from grief. Something magical happened with Paul and John meeting. They the same dream of finding buried coins. That just doesn't happen. I believe John was as hurt as Paul but didn't process grief the same. John would be mean rather then cry. I love them both, the whole group but there's something special about Paul for me.
When John and Yoko co-hosted The Mike Douglas Show, John called Paul "me best friend." And when John appeared with Elton John at Madison Square Garden, he introduced the first number as one "written by an old estranged fiance of mine named Paul," then launched into "I Saw Her Standing There."
I thought it was odd that John's comment introducing ISHST was included on the b-side of Elton's 'Lucy' single. I recall a story from the time that Yoko visited Paul, who visited John and read him the lyrics of 'She Loves You', before the couple reunited. Apparently Paul got the idea the morning after the 'toot & a snore' session when he went over to the address John had given him, to be led through the house to the pool area, where he met Ringo, who talked about John's apparent instability since he left Yoko.
You have made one of the more incredible assessments of the end of The Beatles. It was a difficult period for true Beatles' fans, and the press manipulated the situation by elevating John to preeminence. You have spoken so honestly about those days; I really appreciate your thoughts and your analysis. Thank you! I was a true fan, having grown up in the 60s. It took me a long long, long time to accept their break-up. I still listen more to their music than any other one group or artist. Their development of and influence on Rock and Roll is immeasurable. Each album starting with Rubber Soul was revolutionary; nothing like what they were doing had ever been done. And they never stopped exceeding the bar that they had established. I think your work on this, and everything you do is very good. Keep up the great work!
Thank you for pointing that out. A lot of people don’t know how John had a lot of the musical press in his back pocket. In the end, the Beatles were four human beings, and susceptible to the same vices and sins as any human.
Wow! I’m 57 and have watched and listened to everything Beatles I could since I was a kid. I think this is the best interpretation of their break up I’ve ever seen. Good job!
Great video! No one really talks about the depression Paul went through after the Beatles split up and how Linda was the glue that put Paul back together.
Faul was depressed because Linda the no talent was blackmailing him to put her in his band wings - (he should have called it Pigs with wings once she was in) She knew he was an imposter and was threatening to expose him. I love the isolated vocals of her pitiful attempts at singing , both priceless and painful !!
@@TheGuitarHistorian Wow you are a bright one. I like your tactic when you can’t dispute the info you resort to attacking the presenter. Obviously any information I mention is well over your head
@@buzzedalldrink9131 Is it "information" or is it just your fantasized opinion? You're clearly one of those "Linda haters", which I find odd since I thought those were all jealous and petty high school girls of that time.
Nice way to bring light to such an interesting yet tragic part of Paul’s life. He made mistakes and so did they all but it’s just so crazy how few people know how bad it got for Paul. I mean he was literally just ready to die. He loved the group and having them torn away couldn’t have been easy.
I thought that until this album George’s sings weren’t that good.. But now they are. What’s the insult? He was right. Now they were good enough.. not sure who this guy is but he’s talking like he was there .. Oh well ?
Breathless 365 is a real master craftsman. Of course, Peter Jackson has done an excellent job of editing and renewing Get back recordings, B365 has done some real homework.
Some of you need to visit my hometown Liverpool to feel the vibe of this great city.. The Beatles are all around us in spirit and the legends will never die.. ❤❤❤❤
We were there back in May of 2019! Loved that city, and we will be back. Meanwhile, check out my episode I did on the Cavern Club here: ruclips.net/video/ps2y9adefUk/видео.html
Bless Paul. He’s been through it in his life for sure. Incredibly famous and talented and seemingly has it all. But he’s really been dealt some hard hard blows in his life. And he always comes out on the other side a little better than before.
I have been a devoted Beatles fan since I was ten, and have read widely about the band and their career/s. I knew that there had been angst around the Beatles break up and subsequent legal battles, but I had no idea until now of the effect that all this had on Paul. I had never imagined the effect of it all on Paul was so bad. He'd always seemed to me self sufficient and and immune to the scorn of press, public and his fellow Beatles. It just shows how wrong you can be.
Great to get more details filled in here, thanks! Been a Beatles fan since college in the 90s, but Get Back put me down the rabbit hole. Never knew just how resilient Paul was/is.
John and Paul were more or less good with each other after the Apple dissolution in 1974, and their unscheduled little studio session together during John's lost weekend. Despite a few rocky moments thereafter, they very much mended their friendship, and listening to or reading them carefully it's hard to know who missed the other most. You have to remember that for nearly 13 years, these two men, who both lost their mothers at a young age, both of whom no one really expected anything from and who had a typically 'Scouse' brass face to the outer world were closer than most brothers. They had been in a unique position not unlike the closest of close war buddies - and survived. They both felt for a while that the one had betrayed the other, but all that history eventually broke through that. A lot of people close to the two say that at the time of John's death, just after his emergence from 5 years of quiet life, he and Paul planned to work together again, Ringo was supposedly up for it, only George was still to be brought in. Studio sessions were supposed to be set for December 1980, but the studio they wanted was booked up, so it was agreed to wait until sometime in the New year...a New Year which of course for John, never came. Whether this is true or not (I have seen and heard enough to believe it probably was), it doesn't affect how they were at the end. They were a lot closer than many would believe.
The way I see it the break up was inevitable and as good as the Beatles were as a band they simply didn't need each other anymore. And I think John felt married to the Beatles and preferred to be married to Yoko. But that said, it seem obvious it all might have gone much smoother if not for Klein.
John actually had his first #1 in 1974 with "What Ever Get's You Through The Night". Ringo had a hit album in 1973 with "Ringo" of course George had a hit album in 1987 with "Cloud Nine".
I am reminded of these lyrics John wrote in 1970. I edited it to avoid repetition. "God is a concept, by which we measure our pain. I don't believe in magic, I Ching, Tarot, Hitler, Jesus, Kennedy, Buddah, Mantra, Gita, Yoga, kings, Elvis, Zimmerman, Beatles. I just believe in me ,Yoko and me and that's reality. Yesterday I was the dreamweaver, but now I'm reborn. I was the walrus, but now I'm John. And so dear friends, you just have to carry on. What can I say? The dream is over." According to John it was over for him by the White Album. I don't blame Yoko as John was a big boy and able to make his own decisions. Paul tried to keep it together and he did enough to leave us with Abbey Road and Let it Be. I am good with that.
Good episode on Paul McCartney and his post Beatles life, and how eventually they were able to patch things up friendship wise. They both hurt eachother, but they both were able to reignite their friendship. Before John was murdered. And I’ve seen videos of John where he told the interviewer that he and Pail were Good friends again, and that he could see possibly getting together with the guys again. That alone is worth your episode.
Thanks for posting, fella. When I was a kid, before i discovered other music, I loved The Beatles ESPECIALLY Johns songs, hé was my hero and for a long time I thought Paul was too "nice" and that most of his songs werent that edgey. But now , many years later, I really like the guy. He's a great musician, a funny, genuinely cool "chap" and fair-dooz, Thé Beatles just wouldnt have been Thé Beatles without him. They were brilliant.
Paul McCartney was 100 percent right about Allen Klein. George Harrison wrote my Sweet Lord which sounded like the song "He's so fine. "Instead of Klein seeking out the other group and offering them songwriters royalties or credits, Klein bought the song and turned around and sued Harrison. That's comparable to Klein stabbing Harrison in the back, then throwing him under the bus. Yoko telling John you're so much better off without them(the other three Beatles) was a big mistake. The four of them individually would never be as great as they were as a group. And thank God, Yoko Ono never became a member of the Beatles. John had her come in like she was kind of some musical advisor when she had very little talent. A joke emerged around 1969 was Yoko going to scream and wail out of tune while Linda McCartney played tambourine solos?
The sum was indeed greater than the parts. Although the boys individually made some good songs, none of them had the consistency to churn out great music as they did when they were together.
I think people are being too quick to vindicate Yoko because of the Get Back doc. She introduced Klein and John is to blame for being so naive and a total follower by jumping in headfirst with Klein. He actually said to George he knows you better than I do. Omg
@@Mina-ok5qm Remember the Beatles manager Brian Epstein died of mixing sleeping pills with alcohol which produces a very toxic poisonous effect. Reporters say overdose but that's hyperbole because when I was a member of the media I did an investigative story on it. When Epstein died, John was on the search for the void of a parental figure in his life. Yoko was a subconscious mother figure because she paid attention to John while Lennon's wife Cynthia was busy with that role to their son, Julian Lennon. Klein fit the bill as John's real father, Freddie jumped a merchant marines ship and never came back. John's mother Julia Lennon had been unfaithful to him while he was away. Other celebrities who died from a poisonous mix of alcohol and barbiturates(sleeping pills. If they were broken in half they were used as downers) were Marilyn Monroe, Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix. Hendrix was found at the edge of the bed in position to vomit so the actual cause of death was choked on his own vomit. Mama Cass Elliott died choking on a pork sandwich. It's a blatant lie that she was eating pig knuckle sandwich and the pig knuckles lodged in her throat. There was no one to give her the Heimlich maneuver to dislodge the sandwich.
@@Mina-ok5qm Yoko also brought a bed into the studio. Shocking. Imagine a co-worker bringing their spouse and mattress and sitting in it to watch your group at work. It's about as uncomfortable has having a ghost do that.
It takes a lot of love to recover from How Do You Sleep. If I were Paul I'd cut John out of my life completely after that scathing song. It was just brutal and oh so childish.
I do not know … They had been through an awful lot together and, I believe, were closer than many Brothers I know! Only a deep love can bond two Liverpudlian men as close as they were; it does open one up to deeper hurt and pain but also the otherworldly forgiveness. No matter which person’s skin you choose to have been in at the time, I would bet that you would have been taken back in as a “bestie” … just changed, a wee bit, but BFFs (especially if you can take the wives partially, at least, out of the equation).
Strangely enough, a few years later John said : I though that I was talking about Paul in How Do You Sleep, but the truth is that I was talking about myself.
@@theo9952 - Yes, I heard that interview too. John could be cruel and he tried to project an image of toughness and indifference, but in reality Paul was a much stronger man.
What a messy situation the Beatles should have bought that island so they could have privacy John and Paul marooned on that island could have talked by them selfs but I will say this when people argue it shows to me they careforeach other this band always fascinated me thanks for this 👏👏👏👏
I love how John Lennon and the rest of the Beatles accused Paul of nepotism yet there’s Yoko who would speak for him in meetings and became literally the fifth Beatles attached to JL hip and worked into all photo shoots, ridiculous! Paul was always the best Beatle, and the favorite Beatle! By far the most talented Beatle and his solo career in the 70s was outstanding compared to the other three especially Lennon who put out the most dreary boring music of his career. He sold albums because of who he was but no one regards his solo music highly today. It was weak. He needed Paul a lot more than John needed him! Paul got screwed by his friends but he ended up firmly on his feet! Thank God!
I wouldn't say Paul positioned himself as the de facto leader so much as he was always the bandleader in the studio (which is why you hear him counting off the songs) and John abdicated due to drugs and other interests. Paul was ascendant, John was absentee, no one else was qualified or interested in leading. Someone had to do it. Paul did. It's amazing he kept them going so long, really, after Brian died.
He wasn't always the leader. George and John counted off songs too. That doesn't make someone the leader. John was the early leader of the band. The others even said it in a press meeting. Between 1963 and 1966 John was writing more songs than Paul. He wrote 10 of the 13 songs on 'A Hard Day's Night'. After Brian died Paul was the one that tried to keep the band going, so John let him make those decisions. John was starting to lose interest, and knew Paul was quite capable of leading the band, and certainly dedicated. But, John Lennon started and ended the Beatles. When Billy Preston was ask what John was like in the studio he said, "John was the boss". There's a tape of a meeting between John, Paul, and George in late 1969 where John was telling Paul the albums going forward would be split 4 songs each between the 3 of them, and Ringo could have one or 2 if he wanted them. Paul was being very quiet on the tape because John was taking his position as leader back. Unfortunately a couple weeks later John decided to end the band instead. It was agreed that they would keep the breakup secret until after Let It Be was released, but Paul told the media that he was leaving the Beatles in order to promote his solo album which he tried to release before Let It Be, but the record company wouldn't allow it.
The break up of the Beatles was just so sad and there are so many what ifs remaining even after half a century. I find it frustrating they couldn't find a way of carrying on but as George said, all things must pass and I'm just grateful we had them at all as they are the greatest band the world will ever see.
I remember listening to my car radio back in 1969 or 1970 when it was announced the Beatles were no longer together. Though shocked by the news, I imagined they would always have get togethers and possibly release new records. The news of what happened was just opinions and none could be held as truth. It wasn't until John was killed that I realized they would never be together again. In the meantime, I was happy that each found success releasing individual songs, but the death of John finalized the obvious. I had bought all the Beatles albums as they were released, but not one of each individual since their breakup. Once CDs replaced LP records, I rebought all the Beatles albums again!
I absolutely love this episode. The Beatles are timeless and this is an interesting look into the years between 70 & 80. Crazy that even someone as talented and successful as Paul could have self doubt… he’s only one of the best to ever come along. Now can someone tell Mark Lewisohn to hurry up with #2 already? Thank you.
Losing a best friend so suddenly is one of the most traumatic things I've ever gone through. I know so because I lost mine to a car accident 3 years ago. She was my age, early 20s... I know how Paul felt :(
Great presentation! I learned a couple of things and I'm a long-long fan of the Fabs. I never know that John wanted to create a tenable way the Beatles could stay together in 1970. Allen Klein really was an opportunist that came on as a friend and father-figure to John. I always wondered if all 4 Beatles could find an Apple head that they all could agree on. Maybe the Beatles would have worked together more, and Apple Records might have stayed an active company for other artists as well!
Incredibly informative and assertive assessment of the beatles around that time, you've earned a subscriber, you also deserve a lot more, greetings from Liverpool!
Wow. That was so impressive. I'm well versed in all of these details, and you did SUCH a concise, condensed, review of the entire breakup chronology...all in 21 minutes! Your use of just the right, relevant photos, and details of each of their emotional states throughout, was unmatched in any such review that I've ever seen, or read. I can't say enough to express how impressed I am. I've also, now subscribed, and look forward to seeing your other videos. I know they'll be great as well. Thanks, Chuck Rawlings
This is great and sad. yeah, i saw The Beatles debut on Ed Sullivan. I also recall the local AM station (KYA or KFRC) saying they'd broken up. While the 'barbs' part appeared, I thought of Silly Love Songs. I'd hear this everyday on the radio at work then. Never tired of it. btw, i used to drive by Candlestick daily. Dang thing's gone now.
Actually I love the Early Solo Work of All of Them. McCartney record I still Love. RAM remains my Favorite. Wild Life has its moments. Like RED ROSE SPEED WAY. BAND ON THE RUN IS HIS BEST. Linda was the Glue. Love Scotland Period. Riding Horses Tending the Sheep Having his Family to help him Heal. Very Smart. You can thank Linda. Actually Linda grounded Paul. I like this period. Not so much the Hollywood Paul. But I'm glad they pretty much patched things up before John's untimely Death. THE BEATLES STILL LIVE ON.
I disagree that the press set up John as a hero to the working class and a counter culture icon. He WAS a hero to the working class and a counter culture icon. These two men certainly loved each other and had a complicated personal and professional relationship over the years. We can't truly understand the dynamics and pressures of being a Beatle during those times. Only they know what it was really like. They produced a huge catalog of some of the best music of modern times, pioneered many aspects of music for every band that followed, and blazed a trail of success and influence not likely to ever be approached by another musical group. It was, in a word, magical.
I think Paul's major "fault" in the breaking up of the Beatles was his disregard for George. You can see it throughout Get Beck sessions, he is so intent on reconnecting to John (and, obviously, getting his own musical visions through), that he can't see how much he is sidelining George. George was the first one who tried to leave.
Agreed! And also while during the discussion, he praises George for trying to stand up against John's allowing Yoko's presence, Paul continues to support John's reliance on her. Paul's biggest mistake was not calling John's bluff to have him & George say it's you and only you John!
@@mymikecooks9268 However I seem to recall that Paul did try to ban Yoko from the studio (or at least make her stay quiet) during the white album recordings - and got a very bad reaction from John. By the time of "Get Back" he was trying hard to accept her, because he thought that was the only way to keep John in the band. And it kind of worked, John and Paul seem to be getting along most of the time (at least in Jackson's presentation of events). But it was at George's expense.
I was listening to a Mark Lewisohn (respected Beatles biographer) interview the other day and he was asked about the Paul and George situation leading to George wanting to leave the band, and Mark stated that as far back as 1966 (I believe) when the Beatles stopped touring and Epstein died that George already wanted out of the Beatles for reasons totally unrelated to Paul. George just really didn't like being a Beatle which was evident by how often in his solo career he sang and spoke about the experience in negative terms.
Geo was a complaining bitch. Sorry but he was. He was also an addict and lazy. Paul showed him respect in GB IMO. They should have kicked him out in 65 or 66. Geo just complained about everything. Bottom line is George was always jealous of Paul!
It just goes to show what a shock it was to people that the beatles split up when you consider that at the time bands split up and changed members all the time. To last 9 years was incredible. People kind of assume that because they were so successful they would stay together forever.
Mick Jagger wrote and mailed a letter to PM warning him to not allow AK to manage or handle the affairs of the Beatles. Also in the book Life by KR. He states that AK or his heirs own the rights to satisfaction.
But he refused to tell John about it himself. Which meant Paul had to tell John, and it only made it worse. I wish Mick had just told John himself. John might have believed him.
While recording All Things Must Pass, Harrison altered a line from “Beware of Darkness” to “Beware of ABKCO” so it didn’t take long for them to realize Paul was right, again…
Dick James selling their catalog out from under them played a large role in Lennon's decision. "why should I work for suits I don't even know?" or something similar. McCartney. Swing your partner, do-si-do. That's what John thought of Teddy Boy. Bottom line is, George and John didn't want to work with Paul anymore. You see how George gets slighted by both John and Paul in Get Back, but mostly by Paul.
That was really good. Pretty fair. I think the last tricks up the Beatles re-releases sleeve should include, 1) Mixing the singles and EP's they made at the time, with the Albums they made at the time- New running orders and new album covers- And making 13 new albums/song collections. Would be nice to hear Paperback Writer and Rain on the Revolver Album and a MMT/ Yellow SubMarine/Lady Madonna mashup. 2) Gathering the BBC songs together into a cavern-like concert experience. Eschew most of the originals and focus on the covers; just make a bad ass circa early 1962 'concert' 3) releasing the Decca Tapes in full.
the man who wrote(or was about to write) 'maybe I'm amazed' had a crisis of confidence? damn. Allen Klein played ''divide and conquer'' w/ the BEATLES.
The feud between John and Paul didn't last long, though. When John did his performance in Madison square garden in 1972 he actually called Paul and asked him to perform together with him. But because of the Wings being on tour, Paul couldn't make it. But imagine just how that show would have been if the both of them HAD performed together. Later during John's long-lost weekend, Paul would visit John at his Los Angeles home, where they were joined by Ringo. May Pang's photos show them hanging out, telling old Hamburg stories and jamming at the piano. People forget that Paul left the band after he was told that he couldn't release his first solo album as long as he was still part of the band. And with him leaving, the others all of a sudden were freed of the "You can't do this as long as you're part of the band." restrictions. Which also meant hanging out with the other former Beatles.
Loved this. Just subscribed. Have been a fan of the Beatles since I bought my first sound system back in the early 80's. You can see a lot of love between Paul and John in Get Back. Just the eye contact. Feel a bit for George being dismissed by BOTH of them. Pissed off at "Rolling Stone " and other snarky reviewers for shitting on Paul's solo work. Anyway , cheers.
I couldn’t disagree with you more I think Paul has always refused to be pigeon holed in any one type of music, he is musical genius, and he can do rock and roll as good as any of the others.
RAM is the best solo album by any Beatle, in my opinion. It's amazing how fondly people think of Lennon's solo work when it's so lazy and sonically boring. There are great songs, but they're few and far between. Mostly it's, "Oh let's do vanilla 50's rock again with the vocal echo." Snooze. Meanwhile, Paul, even at his lowest, was creating new sounds and inventing Indie Rock.
@@theamazingbrokenman YES THEY ARE BUT TO ME THEY DO NOT BEAR MANY REPEATED PLAYINGS. sorry caplock locked! His mommy and daddy issues songs especially are admirable but how many times can you listen to them? Ram and Band on the run and yes Wild life and other Paul or Wings albums do stand up to many replays. Paul's songs have so much going on in them musically and great vocal harmonies.
For years I've read articles about John Lennon saying he was going to quit the band first and Paul new it and beat him to the punch 4 the publishity of quitting first 👊 😳
John wasn't furious about the credit on Give Peace a Chance. He chose to do that. He even later said he realized it was a sort of subconscious guilty parting gift. Their songwriting agreement only applied to Beatles tracks. This is why, for instance, The Family Way music is not credited to Lennon at all.
Well done. You really do such an excellent and researched job on these. Love to see you present something on Bowie’s Berlin Period. As a teen, for me Bowie’s legend mushroomed during this period, as he laid low, became influenced by Kraftwerk and Cluster and then popped up in odd ways; producing Iggy Pop albums, then touring as his keyboardist. You’ve got the movie Man Who Fell To Earth, Bowie overcoming drugs and regaining his health, The making of Heroes, collaborating with Brian Eno, Robert Fripp and Tony Visconti, The Xmas duet with Bing Crosby, finally touring again with a monster band featuring Adrian Belew and Roger Powell from Utopia, and the triumphant appearance on SNL. Check out the live concerts here on RUclips from ’78, astonishing. And, absorb Low, Heroes and Lodger.
I'm not always a McCartney fan, but Maybe I'm Amazed is one of my top ten favorite song over everybody. I also like Oh Darling ,Back in the USSR, Helter Skelter, Hey Jude, songs with a hole lot of feelings and soul. 👍👍✌️
Good video. Nice to hear some different opinions on the breakup. One wonders if Paul had not been so dismissive of George's material they might have stayed together?
We all, unfortunately look for the "devil" to personify anything we don't understand and therefore look for a scapegoat. How dare they!!! Maxwell is "fruitier" than Yellow Submarine? Octopus's Garden? Strawberry Fields or Lucy In the Sky? I sing along with ALL of them and I am more than happy to say thanks to the Beatle that gave us the last tasteful,heartfelt and enigmatic"Long & Winding Road". What a swan song! He probably wrote "and in The End (your majesty) the love you take is equal to the love you make". A classier exit is thus not possible.Period. End of story. Haters hate.Do your thing.But who had the lengthiest,most successful creative,productivity after the "Beatles"? I'll give the confused people a hint. He had a "Band On The Run".I'm "Back in the USSR".And I'm 64.Take a "Jet "to reality.I'll sing you a "Silly Love Song.""Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Dumb."And if you still don't get it, well "Maybe I'm Amazed".Now it's time to say goodnight.
7:50 Yeah it's petty to keep the Lennon McCartney thing there, but Lennon also refused to remove his name or even swap the order for the song Let it Be, which he actually had no part in writing. I get there being a divide among the work with The Beatles and their solo work, but I also don't feel bad for John not getting the same thing he refused to give Paul
Paul has composed MANY GREAT ALBUMS since the Beatles breakup. Band on The Run; Flowers in the Dirt; Flaming Pie; Chaos and Creation; Off The Ground; McCartney; London Town and many more.
@@oskarmac14 And don't forget Back to the Egg - and RAM - I listened to RAM and predicted then that Paul would have the most successful solo career. The Lefthand King of Rock.
@@anton5442 Good pick - Ms. Vanderbilt - yeah that was a good one - "This One," "Girl's School," "Getting Closer," "Spies Like Us," "Helter Skelter," and "Not Such a Bad Boy," all get merit awards and runner up. I've been guilty of hitting replay on all these including Vanderbilt. Pink Floyd and Led Zepplin were influenced by "Helter Skelter," - very innovative artists - but good old McCartney is the master of melody (sweet and syrupy for certain) - but a good melody and a rocking song - well it's hard to beat him. On top of his work ethic - almost non-stop since the Beatles break-up.
The Beatles were in trouble when Yoko Ono brought a bed into the studio. That's like super invade my space very awkward. First Yoko came in and sat on Paul McCartney's amp. Macca would say excuse me to Yoko everytime he needed to tweak his sound on the bass. Instead of having a chair brought in, shockingly a bed was brought in for Yoko. This is not gossip. They interviewed Paul and Linda McCartney. You can find it here on RUclips. Let's see how you would feel if a co-worker brought their spouse to work along with a bed. You would be shocked and it would be very shocking too. Both John and Yoko were obsessive compulsive. I prefer an alien invasion or haunting to Yoko bringing a bed into the recording studio. LOL
I remember all those "lyrics" during that time. In fact, after the album Ram, Lennon's Imagine album included a little post card insert showing him holding a pig by the ears and head over a a handful of peanuts on the ground. Kinda similar to Paul holding the ram's horns. Does anyone remember that or still have that insert? I do.
You could see it in his eyes when he said "and then there were two". He didn't want to Beatles to split.
Everyone wanted Paul to cry and talk constantly about it in public…time has vindicated his hard work and dignity
the real Paul would have had a lot to say
@@buzzedalldrink9131 HA. This kinda proved to me there was no paul is dead. They played it up.
@@FuzzyBuzzBoy I used to think it was a hoax but it was proven, it is two different people. the truth is out there. Its up to you to do your homework
@@buzzedalldrink9131 I have. I have the big book and that gives quite a story as opposed to the main version. Faul would have to know all the songs they did as kids.Some of the comedy they do in the movie seems like only the real Paul would Know. I just lost my mom a year ago and its still killing me. Lennon and George and Ringo. How could they do it? Tavistock institute teach them some things?
@@FuzzyBuzzBoy Sorry about your Mom
I have been there too I agree I would think it would be very difficult to just carry-on as if nothing happened. There were a few key things that did it for me one for physical differences between the real Paul and the replacement cannot be ignored. ever wonder how he learn to play the piano and write songs like Let it Be within a two or three-year period? Do you don’t know anybody could learn to play piano that quickly?
My poor Paulie. He has a softer disposition then John but a stronger will. It had to really hurt to get him that down and out. I've heard stories about it. He wouldn't bathe for days and lived out in the barn for a while. He has spoken of being like this before when he said as a kid, after his Mom died he just be so sad while trying to go about his daily life there's times he felt like he'd pass out from grief.
Something magical happened with Paul and John meeting. They the same dream of finding buried coins. That just doesn't happen. I believe John was as hurt as Paul but didn't process grief the same. John would be mean rather then cry. I love them both, the whole group but there's something special about Paul for me.
Both of them had a hard outer shell formed from grief at a young age. 🥸
John literally loved Paul. Not so much Faul.
Go away.
I agree with you 100%. Oh and I love the eighties videos on your channel. Just my era.
Just a note of interest here.
Paul was 14 when his mother passed away.
His mother was 47 and died of cancer.
When John and Yoko co-hosted The Mike Douglas Show, John called Paul "me best friend." And when John appeared with Elton John at Madison Square Garden, he introduced the first number as one "written by an old estranged fiance of mine named Paul," then launched into "I Saw Her Standing There."
I thought it was odd that John's comment introducing ISHST was included on the b-side of Elton's 'Lucy' single. I recall a story from the time that Yoko visited Paul, who visited John and read him the lyrics of 'She Loves You', before the couple reunited. Apparently Paul got the idea the morning after the 'toot & a snore' session when he went over to the address John had given him, to be led through the house to the pool area, where he met Ringo, who talked about John's apparent instability since he left Yoko.
I wish I could have seen John and Yoko on the Mike Douglas Show. I’m from Philadelphia.
The man of " peace" was no man of peace
@@moemcgovern7345 The whole Mike Douglas Show episode with John & Yoko is on RUclips.
@@buzzman4860 and admitted as much, very openly. He told you; not the other way around. Anything else?
You have made one of the more incredible assessments of the end of The Beatles. It was a difficult period for true Beatles' fans, and the press manipulated the situation by elevating John to preeminence. You have spoken so honestly about those days; I really appreciate your thoughts and your analysis. Thank you! I was a true fan, having grown up in the 60s. It took me a long long, long time to accept their break-up. I still listen more to their music than any other one group or artist. Their development of and influence on Rock and Roll is immeasurable. Each album starting with Rubber Soul was revolutionary; nothing like what they were doing had ever been done. And they never stopped exceeding the bar that they had established. I think your work on this, and everything you do is very good. Keep up the great work!
Thank you for pointing that out. A lot of people don’t know how John had a lot of the musical press in his back pocket. In the end, the Beatles were four human beings, and susceptible to the same vices and sins as any human.
Same here. To me, The Beatles will always be together as long as we have their music to play!!! 🚶🏿♂️🚶🏿♂️🚶🏿♂️🚶🏿♂️☮❤
Wow! I’m 57 and have watched and listened to everything Beatles I could since I was a kid. I think this is the best interpretation of their break up I’ve ever seen. Good job!
Great video! No one really talks about the depression Paul went through after the Beatles split up and how Linda was the glue that put Paul back together.
Faul was depressed because Linda the no talent was blackmailing him to put her in his band wings - (he should have called it Pigs with wings once she was in) She knew he was an imposter and was threatening to expose him. I love the isolated vocals of her pitiful attempts at singing , both priceless and painful !!
Guess you think the Earth is flat too? Or a donut isn’t that what they’re believing now?
@@TheGuitarHistorian Wow you are a bright one. I like your tactic when you can’t dispute the info you resort to attacking the presenter.
Obviously any information I mention is well over your head
@@buzzedalldrink9131 I highly doubt it.
@@buzzedalldrink9131 Is it "information" or is it just your fantasized opinion? You're clearly one of those "Linda haters", which I find odd since I thought those were all jealous and petty high school girls of that time.
Nice way to bring light to such an interesting yet tragic part of Paul’s life. He made mistakes and so did they all but it’s just so crazy how few people know how bad it got for Paul. I mean he was literally just ready to die. He loved the group and having them torn away couldn’t have been easy.
“Breathless” documentary …”Understanding Lennon McCartney” is reaaally awesome in helping understand the 70s
Love the breathless documentaries!!
The best!!
I thought that until this album George’s sings weren’t that good.. But now they are. What’s the insult? He was right. Now they were good enough.. not sure who this guy is but he’s talking like he was there .. Oh well ?
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Breathless 365 is a real master craftsman. Of course, Peter Jackson has done an excellent job of editing and renewing Get back recordings, B365 has done some real homework.
Some of you need to visit my hometown Liverpool to feel the vibe of this great city.. The Beatles are all around us in spirit and the legends will never die.. ❤❤❤❤
We were there back in May of 2019! Loved that city, and we will be back. Meanwhile, check out my episode I did on the Cavern Club here: ruclips.net/video/ps2y9adefUk/видео.html
Bless Paul. He’s been through it in his life for sure. Incredibly famous and talented and seemingly has it all. But he’s really been dealt some hard hard blows in his life. And he always comes out on the other side a little better than before.
They were all amazing. Paul still is... and they all blow me away.
I have been a devoted Beatles fan since I was ten, and have read widely about the band and their career/s. I knew that there had been angst around the Beatles break up and subsequent legal battles, but I had no idea until now of the effect that all this had on Paul. I had never imagined the effect of it all on Paul was so bad. He'd always seemed to me self sufficient and and immune to the scorn of press, public and his fellow Beatles. It just shows how wrong you can be.
Great to get more details filled in here, thanks! Been a Beatles fan since college in the 90s, but Get Back put me down the rabbit hole. Never knew just how resilient Paul was/is.
This is all water under the bridge - but I'm sure glad we have their music.
John and Paul were more or less good with each other after the Apple dissolution in 1974, and their unscheduled little studio session together during John's lost weekend. Despite a few rocky moments thereafter, they very much mended their friendship, and listening to or reading them carefully it's hard to know who missed the other most. You have to remember that for nearly 13 years, these two men, who both lost their mothers at a young age, both of whom no one really expected anything from and who had a typically 'Scouse' brass face to the outer world were closer than most brothers. They had been in a unique position not unlike the closest of close war buddies - and survived.
They both felt for a while that the one had betrayed the other, but all that history eventually broke through that. A lot of people close to the two say that at the time of John's death, just after his emergence from 5 years of quiet life, he and Paul planned to work together again, Ringo was supposedly up for it, only George was still to be brought in. Studio sessions were supposed to be set for December 1980, but the studio they wanted was booked up, so it was agreed to wait until sometime in the New year...a New Year which of course for John, never came. Whether this is true or not (I have seen and heard enough to believe it probably was), it doesn't affect how they were at the end. They were a lot closer than many would believe.
I firmly believe that they would have recorded together more in the 80s for sure. And who knows what that would’ve sounded like.
The way I see it the break up was inevitable and as good as the Beatles were as a band they simply didn't need each other anymore. And I think John felt married to the Beatles and preferred to be married to Yoko. But that said, it seem obvious it all might have gone much smoother if not for Klein.
@@whichgodofthousandsmeansno5306 the death of Epstein was the beginning of the end for the Beatles.
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@@deejay7060 Lennox was about to release milk and honey and another album and had a world tour booked for this Northern summer.
Paul had the last laugh. After 1971. John, George and Ringo went out of steams. Paul's Wings piled hit after hit and never looked back.
Totally right. It’s hard to think of a better post-Beatle song than “Working Class Hero”. Not a sweet McCartney song, though.
John actually had his first #1 in 1974 with "What Ever Get's You Through The Night". Ringo had a hit album in 1973 with "Ringo" of course George had a hit album in 1987 with "Cloud Nine".
I am reminded of these lyrics John wrote in 1970. I edited it to avoid repetition.
"God is a concept, by which we measure our pain. I don't believe in magic, I Ching, Tarot, Hitler, Jesus, Kennedy, Buddah, Mantra, Gita, Yoga, kings, Elvis, Zimmerman, Beatles. I just believe in me ,Yoko and me and that's reality. Yesterday I was the dreamweaver, but now I'm reborn. I was the walrus, but now I'm John. And so dear friends, you just have to carry on. What can I say? The dream is over."
According to John it was over for him by the White Album. I don't blame Yoko as John was a big boy and able to make his own decisions. Paul tried to keep it together and he did enough to leave us with Abbey Road and Let it Be. I am good with that.
Good episode on Paul McCartney and his post Beatles life, and how eventually they were able to patch things up friendship wise. They both hurt eachother, but they both were able to reignite their friendship. Before John was murdered. And I’ve seen videos of John where he told the interviewer that he and Pail were Good friends again, and that he could see possibly getting together with the guys again. That alone is worth your episode.
There’s the Beatles, then there’s everyone else. I simply can’t see that ever changing.
Thanks for posting, fella. When I was a kid, before i discovered other music, I loved The Beatles ESPECIALLY Johns songs, hé was my hero and for a long time I thought Paul was too "nice" and that most of his songs werent that edgey. But now , many years later, I really like the guy. He's a great musician, a funny, genuinely cool "chap" and fair-dooz, Thé Beatles just wouldnt have been Thé Beatles without him.
They were brilliant.
Paul McCartney was 100 percent right about Allen Klein. George Harrison wrote my Sweet Lord which sounded like the song "He's so fine. "Instead of Klein seeking out the other group and offering them songwriters royalties or credits, Klein bought the song and turned around and sued Harrison. That's comparable to Klein stabbing Harrison in the back, then throwing him under the bus. Yoko telling John you're so much better off without them(the other three Beatles) was a big mistake. The four of them individually would never be as great as they were as a group. And thank God, Yoko Ono never became a member of the Beatles. John had her come in like she was kind of some musical advisor when she had very little talent. A joke emerged around 1969 was Yoko going to scream and wail out of tune while Linda McCartney played tambourine solos?
The sum was indeed greater than the parts. Although the boys individually made some good songs, none of them had the consistency to churn out great music as they did when they were together.
I think people are being too quick to vindicate Yoko because of the Get Back doc. She introduced Klein and John is to blame for being so naive and a total follower by jumping in headfirst with Klein. He actually said to George he knows you better than I do. Omg
@@Mina-ok5qm Remember the Beatles manager Brian Epstein died of mixing sleeping pills with alcohol which produces a very toxic poisonous effect. Reporters say overdose but that's hyperbole because when I was a member of the media I did an investigative story on it. When Epstein died, John was on the search for the void of a parental figure in his life. Yoko was a subconscious mother figure because she paid attention to John while Lennon's wife Cynthia was busy with that role to their son, Julian Lennon. Klein fit the bill as John's real father, Freddie jumped a merchant marines ship and never came back. John's mother Julia Lennon had been unfaithful to him while he was away. Other celebrities who died from a poisonous mix of alcohol and barbiturates(sleeping pills. If they were broken in half they were used as downers) were Marilyn Monroe, Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix. Hendrix was found at the edge of the bed in position to vomit so the actual cause of death was choked on his own vomit. Mama Cass Elliott died choking on a pork sandwich. It's a blatant lie that she was eating pig knuckle sandwich and the pig knuckles lodged in her throat. There was no one to give her the Heimlich maneuver to dislodge the sandwich.
Plastic Ono Band is incredible. I think there is a case to be made that the Beatles were at that time holding John’s muse back a bit.
@@Mina-ok5qm Yoko also brought a bed into the studio. Shocking. Imagine a co-worker bringing their spouse and mattress and sitting in it to watch your group at work. It's about as uncomfortable has having a ghost do that.
Great video. You managed to weave a story that many knew a bit of the information, but you added details that clarified the situation.
It takes a lot of love to recover from How Do You Sleep. If I were Paul I'd cut John out of my life completely after that scathing song. It was just brutal and oh so childish.
I do not know … They had been through an awful lot together and, I believe, were closer than many Brothers I know! Only a deep love can bond two Liverpudlian men as close as they were; it does open one up to deeper hurt and pain but also the otherworldly forgiveness. No matter which person’s skin you choose to have been in at the time, I would bet that you would have been taken back in as a “bestie” … just changed, a wee bit, but BFFs (especially if you can take the wives partially, at least, out of the equation).
Good John wrote that, it brought out the best in McCartney.
Strangely enough, a few years later John said : I though that I was talking about Paul in How Do You Sleep, but the truth is that I was talking about myself.
@@theo9952 - Yes, I heard that interview too. John could be cruel and he tried to project an image of toughness and indifference, but in reality Paul was a much stronger man.
Paul instead send him a lovesong (Dear Friend) .... :-)
Excellent timeline of the events leading to the break-up-- thank you for doing this
Very thorough, thanks for taking the effort to investigate and post this fine video.
What a messy situation the Beatles should have bought that island so they could have privacy John and Paul marooned on that island could have talked by them selfs but I will say this when people argue it shows to me they careforeach other this band always fascinated me thanks for this 👏👏👏👏
Dude i just found your channel and im very impressed! im a huge fan of The Beatles, this video essay was done quite well. Keep it up
Thank you sir! Take a look around I have tons of content and more than half a dozen vids involving The Beatles in some way.
I love how John Lennon and the rest of the Beatles accused Paul of nepotism yet there’s Yoko who would speak for him in meetings and became literally the fifth Beatles attached to JL hip and worked into all photo shoots, ridiculous! Paul was always the best Beatle, and the favorite Beatle! By far the most talented Beatle and his solo career in the 70s was outstanding compared to the other three especially Lennon who put out the most dreary boring music of his career. He sold albums because of who he was but no one regards his solo music highly today. It was weak. He needed Paul a lot more than John needed him! Paul got screwed by his friends but he ended up firmly on his feet! Thank God!
I wouldn't say Paul positioned himself as the de facto leader so much as he was always the bandleader in the studio (which is why you hear him counting off the songs) and John abdicated due to drugs and other interests. Paul was ascendant, John was absentee, no one else was qualified or interested in leading. Someone had to do it. Paul did. It's amazing he kept them going so long, really, after Brian died.
He wasn't always the leader. George and John counted off songs too. That doesn't make someone the leader. John was the early leader of the band. The others even said it in a press meeting. Between 1963 and 1966 John was writing more songs than Paul. He wrote 10 of the 13 songs on 'A Hard Day's Night'. After Brian died Paul was the one that tried to keep the band going, so John let him make those decisions. John was starting to lose interest, and knew Paul was quite capable of leading the band, and certainly dedicated. But, John Lennon started and ended the Beatles. When Billy Preston was ask what John was like in the studio he said, "John was the boss". There's a tape of a meeting between John, Paul, and George in late 1969 where John was telling Paul the albums going forward would be split 4 songs each between the 3 of them, and Ringo could have one or 2 if he wanted them. Paul was being very quiet on the tape because John was taking his position as leader back. Unfortunately a couple weeks later John decided to end the band instead. It was agreed that they would keep the breakup secret until after Let It Be was released, but Paul told the media that he was leaving the Beatles in order to promote his solo album which he tried to release before Let It Be, but the record company wouldn't allow it.
The break up of the Beatles was just so sad and there are so many what ifs remaining even after half a century. I find it frustrating they couldn't find a way of carrying on but as George said, all things must pass and I'm just grateful we had them at all as they are the greatest band the world will ever see.
I remember listening to my car radio back in 1969 or 1970 when it was announced the Beatles were no longer together. Though shocked by the news, I imagined they would always have get togethers and possibly release new records. The news of what happened was just opinions and none could be held as truth. It wasn't until John was killed that I realized they would never be together again. In the meantime, I was happy that each found success releasing individual songs, but the death of John finalized the obvious. I had bought all the Beatles albums as they were released, but not one of each individual since their breakup. Once CDs replaced LP records, I rebought all the Beatles albums again!
I absolutely love this episode. The Beatles are timeless and this is an interesting look into the years between 70 & 80. Crazy that even someone as talented and successful as Paul could have self doubt… he’s only one of the best to ever come along. Now can someone tell Mark Lewisohn to hurry up with #2 already? Thank you.
Losing a best friend so suddenly is one of the most traumatic things I've ever gone through. I know so because I lost mine to a car accident 3 years ago. She was my age, early 20s... I know how Paul felt :(
True... Real friendship cannot be replace. Cheers to you 🍻
So Sorry for Your Loss. May your friend be in Peace while in the Loving Hands of God☦️✝️
Great presentation! I learned a couple of things and I'm a long-long fan of the Fabs. I never know that John wanted to create a tenable way the Beatles could stay together in 1970. Allen Klein really was an opportunist that came on as a friend and father-figure to John. I always wondered if all 4 Beatles could find an Apple head that they all could agree on. Maybe the Beatles would have worked together more, and Apple Records might have stayed an active company for other artists as well!
Really appreciate your insight into this story. Great presentation as always...thank you Guitar Historian...
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Incredibly informative and assertive assessment of the beatles around that time, you've earned a subscriber, you also deserve a lot more, greetings from Liverpool!
Wow. That was so impressive. I'm well versed in all of these details, and you did SUCH a concise, condensed, review of the entire breakup chronology...all in 21 minutes! Your use of just the right, relevant photos, and details of each of their emotional states throughout, was unmatched in any such review that I've ever seen, or read. I can't say enough to express how impressed I am. I've also, now subscribed, and look forward to seeing your other videos. I know they'll be great as well. Thanks, Chuck Rawlings
Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed
I can tell you're a real fan. I've just watched the documentary. It was very interesting.
This is great and sad. yeah, i saw The Beatles debut on Ed Sullivan. I also recall the local AM station (KYA or KFRC) saying they'd broken up.
While the 'barbs' part appeared, I thought of Silly Love Songs. I'd hear this everyday on the radio at work then. Never tired of it.
btw, i used to drive by Candlestick daily. Dang thing's gone now.
When Paul was talking about writing Dear Friend in his Lyrics book, he said it could have been called”What the fuck man?”😂
You passed the audition!!! Well done!
GH, I'm here. 08:04 GMT. Gonna listen right now......🙂👍. Best channel on RUclips
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Actually I love the Early Solo Work of All of Them.
McCartney record I still Love.
RAM remains my Favorite.
Wild Life has its moments.
Like RED ROSE SPEED WAY.
BAND ON THE RUN IS HIS BEST.
Linda was the Glue.
Love Scotland Period.
Riding Horses Tending the Sheep
Having his Family to help him Heal.
Very Smart.
You can thank Linda.
Actually Linda grounded Paul.
I like this period.
Not so much the Hollywood Paul.
But I'm glad they pretty much patched things up before John's untimely Death.
THE BEATLES STILL LIVE ON.
I disagree that the press set up John as a hero to the working class and a counter culture icon. He WAS a hero to the working class and a counter culture icon. These two men certainly loved each other and had a complicated personal and professional relationship over the years. We can't truly understand the dynamics and pressures of being a Beatle during those times. Only they know what it was really like. They produced a huge catalog of some of the best music of modern times, pioneered many aspects of music for every band that followed, and blazed a trail of success and influence not likely to ever be approached by another musical group. It was, in a word, magical.
Well done and interesting.
Even though he doesn’t appear in Peter Jackson’s film, when Allen Klein’s name comes up, it’s gripping, especially the look on Paul’s face . . . .
I so hoped he showed up somewhere in the footage. But yes Pauls face was all you needed to see.
I think Paul's major "fault" in the breaking up of the Beatles was his disregard for George. You can see it throughout Get Beck sessions, he is so intent on reconnecting to John (and, obviously, getting his own musical visions through), that he can't see how much he is sidelining George. George was the first one who tried to leave.
Agreed! And also while during the discussion, he praises George for trying to stand up against John's allowing Yoko's presence, Paul continues to support John's reliance on her. Paul's biggest mistake was not calling John's bluff to have him & George say it's you and only you John!
@@mymikecooks9268 However I seem to recall that Paul did try to ban Yoko from the studio (or at least make her stay quiet) during the white album recordings - and got a very bad reaction from John. By the time of "Get Back" he was trying hard to accept her, because he thought that was the only way to keep John in the band. And it kind of worked, John and Paul seem to be getting along most of the time (at least in Jackson's presentation of events). But it was at George's expense.
I was listening to a Mark Lewisohn (respected Beatles biographer) interview the other day and he was asked about the Paul and George situation leading to George wanting to leave the band, and Mark stated that as far back as 1966 (I believe) when the Beatles stopped touring and Epstein died that George already wanted out of the Beatles for reasons totally unrelated to Paul. George just really didn't like being a Beatle which was evident by how often in his solo career he sang and spoke about the experience in negative terms.
Geo was a complaining bitch. Sorry but he was. He was also an addict and lazy. Paul showed him respect in GB IMO. They should have kicked him out in 65 or 66. Geo just complained about everything. Bottom line is George was always jealous of Paul!
1966 - key. That’s when Paul was killed in a car accident.
I enjoyed that. Well done.
Loved this episode
Great job 👋❤️🏴
Great stuff we can carry on.
It just goes to show what a shock it was to people that the beatles split up when you consider that at the time bands split up and changed members all the time. To last 9 years was incredible. People kind of assume that because they were so successful they would stay together forever.
Mick Jagger wrote and mailed a letter to PM warning him to not allow AK to manage or handle the affairs of the Beatles.
Also in the book Life by KR. He states that AK or his heirs own the rights to satisfaction.
But he refused to tell John about it himself. Which meant Paul had to tell John, and it only made it worse. I wish Mick had just told John himself. John might have believed him.
While recording All Things Must Pass, Harrison altered a line from “Beware of Darkness” to “Beware of ABKCO” so it didn’t take long for them to realize Paul was right, again…
Dick James selling their catalog out from under them played a large role in Lennon's decision. "why should I work for suits I don't even know?" or something similar. McCartney. Swing your partner, do-si-do. That's what John thought of Teddy Boy. Bottom line is, George and John didn't want to work with Paul anymore. You see how George gets slighted by both John and Paul in Get Back, but mostly by Paul.
“Something” my favorite Beatles song. George wrote it. 🖤
That was really good. Pretty fair. I think the last tricks up the Beatles re-releases sleeve should include, 1) Mixing the singles and EP's they made at the time, with the Albums they made at the time- New running orders and new album covers- And making 13 new albums/song collections. Would be nice to hear Paperback Writer and Rain on the Revolver Album and a MMT/ Yellow SubMarine/Lady Madonna mashup. 2) Gathering the BBC songs together into a cavern-like concert experience. Eschew most of the originals and focus on the covers; just make a bad ass circa early 1962 'concert' 3) releasing the Decca Tapes in full.
Thank you for the great content!
This is brilliant. You wrote it exactly, How I remember it. Thanks
the man who wrote(or was about to write) 'maybe I'm amazed' had a crisis of confidence? damn. Allen Klein played ''divide and conquer'' w/ the BEATLES.
Yes.
The feud between John and Paul didn't last long, though. When John did his performance in Madison square garden in 1972 he actually called Paul and asked him to perform together with him. But because of the Wings being on tour, Paul couldn't make it. But imagine just how that show would have been if the both of them HAD performed together.
Later during John's long-lost weekend, Paul would visit John at his Los Angeles home, where they were joined by Ringo. May Pang's photos show them hanging out, telling old Hamburg stories and jamming at the piano.
People forget that Paul left the band after he was told that he couldn't release his first solo album as long as he was still part of the band. And with him leaving, the others all of a sudden were freed of the "You can't do this as long as you're part of the band." restrictions.
Which also meant hanging out with the other former Beatles.
That's kinda messed up that Paul couldn't release his debut album, as John and George had released their first albums from 1968.
Great commentary,wished it had gone longer,thank you
I saw Paul on the "Driving Rain" tour. It was THE best concert I've ever seen, and probably ever will see.
Loved this. Just subscribed. Have been a fan of the Beatles since I bought my first sound system back in the early 80's. You can see a lot of love between Paul and John in Get Back. Just the eye contact. Feel a bit for George being dismissed by BOTH of them. Pissed off at "Rolling Stone " and other snarky reviewers for shitting on Paul's solo work. Anyway , cheers.
Paul’s solo work has its moments but also a ton of cheese tbh
I couldn’t disagree with you more I think Paul has always refused to be pigeon holed in any one type of music, he is musical genius, and he can do rock and roll as good as any of the others.
@@hw343434 Disagree.
@@lindakelly9552 Agree.
RAM is the best solo album by any Beatle, in my opinion. It's amazing how fondly people think of Lennon's solo work when it's so lazy and sonically boring. There are great songs, but they're few and far between. Mostly it's, "Oh let's do vanilla 50's rock again with the vocal echo." Snooze. Meanwhile, Paul, even at his lowest, was creating new sounds and inventing Indie Rock.
I'm not sure RAM or Band on the Run is best album. In my opinion "Ms Vanderbilt" is the best song on Post-Beatles
@@anton5442 Excellent song but all the songs on the album are great. I might choose 1985 for the best. The piano kills!
@@curtb9567 Very good song! Never heard before (yep, I listened albums partly )
@@theamazingbrokenman YES THEY ARE BUT TO ME THEY DO NOT BEAR MANY REPEATED PLAYINGS. sorry caplock locked! His mommy and daddy issues songs especially are admirable but how many times can you listen to them?
Ram and Band on the run and yes Wild life and other Paul or Wings albums do stand up to many replays. Paul's songs have so much going on in them musically and great vocal harmonies.
@@theo9952 That's not Ram. You're thinking of McCartney.
While I can appreciate Paul's post-Beatles work, I always thought his best stuff was with the Beatles.
Well done thanks man.
That was a great assessment of the Beatles and Paul McCartney. John later admitted in an 1973 interview that Paul was right about Klein.
Actually John said he *thought* Paul *may have been right* about Klein, watch the clip on RUclips.
John knew Klein was no good but he also knew Klein would destroy the band and Paul John was a creep.
For years I've read articles about John Lennon saying he was going to quit the band first and Paul new it and beat him to the punch 4 the publishity of quitting first 👊 😳
Paul is a sweetheart
John wasn't furious about the credit on Give Peace a Chance. He chose to do that. He even later said he realized it was a sort of subconscious guilty parting gift. Their songwriting agreement only applied to Beatles tracks. This is why, for instance, The Family Way music is not credited to Lennon at all.
i wish George was still with us R.I.P.
You’ve never lied. I also wish John were around to keep us grounded in these crazy days.
Thank You So Much 😊❤️Love Everything Beatles
Great video. I learned some new stuff today.
Awesome vid! Well researched and entertaining as always!
No views! I watched every bit of it.
Great piece and timely but wish you’d mentioned “Real Love” and “Free as a Bird,” which put the most bittersweet coda on the whole thing.
I’m very impressed with Paul these days
Well done. You really do such an excellent and researched job on these. Love to see you present something on Bowie’s Berlin Period. As a teen, for me Bowie’s legend mushroomed during this period, as he laid low, became influenced by Kraftwerk and Cluster and then popped up in odd ways; producing Iggy Pop albums, then touring as his keyboardist. You’ve got the movie Man Who Fell To Earth, Bowie overcoming drugs and regaining his health, The making of Heroes, collaborating with Brian Eno, Robert Fripp and Tony Visconti, The Xmas duet with Bing Crosby, finally touring again with a monster band featuring Adrian Belew and Roger Powell from Utopia, and the triumphant appearance on SNL. Check out the live concerts here on RUclips from ’78, astonishing.
And, absorb Low, Heroes and Lodger.
I'm not always a McCartney fan, but Maybe I'm Amazed is one of my top ten favorite song over everybody.
I also like Oh Darling ,Back in the USSR, Helter Skelter, Hey Jude, songs with a hole lot of feelings and soul. 👍👍✌️
Good video. Nice to hear some different opinions on the breakup. One wonders if Paul had not been so dismissive of George's material they might have stayed together?
❤️ The Beatles Forever ❤️
Excellent video 👍
Great collection you have! I really like the Bowie, Smiths, and Supertramp records.
excellent piece, thank you
We all, unfortunately look for the "devil" to personify anything we don't understand and therefore look for a scapegoat. How dare they!!! Maxwell is "fruitier" than Yellow Submarine? Octopus's Garden? Strawberry Fields or Lucy In the Sky? I sing along with ALL of them and I am more than happy to say thanks to the Beatle that gave us the last tasteful,heartfelt and enigmatic"Long & Winding Road". What a swan song! He probably wrote "and in The End (your majesty) the love you take is equal to the love you make". A classier exit is thus not possible.Period. End of story. Haters hate.Do your thing.But who had the lengthiest,most successful creative,productivity after the "Beatles"? I'll give the confused people a hint. He had a "Band On The Run".I'm "Back in the USSR".And I'm 64.Take a "Jet "to reality.I'll sing you a "Silly Love Song.""Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Dumb."And if you still don't get it, well "Maybe I'm Amazed".Now it's time to say goodnight.
Very interesting. As I've said all I really knew was what I read. Thanks.
People are most creative in the 20's... Its probably a good thing they broke up rather then faded away. The clock was ticking on their creativity.
No one ever mentions Paul's more direct dis song: "3 Legs" about "your dog only has three legs..." i.e., the remaining Beatles.
Great content as always.
Good job. Well researched. Very enjoyable.
7:50 Yeah it's petty to keep the Lennon McCartney thing there, but Lennon also refused to remove his name or even swap the order for the song Let it Be, which he actually had no part in writing. I get there being a divide among the work with The Beatles and their solo work, but I also don't feel bad for John not getting the same thing he refused to give Paul
RAM was the most enjoyable and masterful - post Beatle album - the first time I heard RAM - I predicted Paul would out-perform his former mates.
Paul has composed MANY GREAT ALBUMS since the Beatles breakup.
Band on The Run; Flowers in the Dirt; Flaming Pie; Chaos and Creation; Off The Ground; McCartney; London Town and many more.
@@oskarmac14 And don't forget Back to the Egg - and RAM - I listened to RAM and predicted then that Paul would have the most successful solo career. The Lefthand King of Rock.
I'm not sure RAM or Band on the Run is best album. In my opinion "Ms Vanderbilt" is the best song on Post-Beatles
@@anton5442 Good pick - Ms. Vanderbilt - yeah that was a good one - "This One," "Girl's School," "Getting Closer," "Spies Like Us," "Helter Skelter," and "Not Such a Bad Boy," all get merit awards and runner up. I've been guilty of hitting replay on all these including Vanderbilt. Pink Floyd and Led Zepplin were influenced by "Helter Skelter," - very innovative artists - but good old McCartney is the master of melody (sweet and syrupy for certain) - but a good melody and a rocking song - well it's hard to beat him. On top of his work ethic - almost non-stop since the Beatles break-up.
Paul had a last laugh. After 1971. John, George and Ringo were nearly out of steam. Paul's Wings were piling hits and sold out arenas.
Great to see the Trower album cover behind you. He is absolutely criminally underknown and underacknowledged.
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The Beatles were in trouble when Yoko Ono brought a bed into the studio. That's like super invade my space very awkward. First Yoko came in and sat on Paul McCartney's amp. Macca would say excuse me to Yoko everytime he needed to tweak his sound on the bass. Instead of having a chair brought in, shockingly a bed was brought in for Yoko. This is not gossip. They interviewed Paul and Linda McCartney. You can find it here on RUclips. Let's see how you would feel if a co-worker brought their spouse to work along with a bed. You would be shocked and it would be very shocking too. Both John and Yoko were obsessive compulsive. I prefer an alien invasion or haunting to Yoko bringing a bed into the recording studio. LOL
Bravo! That was excellent!
I remember all those "lyrics" during that time. In fact, after the album Ram, Lennon's Imagine album included a little post card insert showing him holding a pig by the ears and head over a a handful of peanuts on the ground. Kinda similar to Paul holding the ram's horns. Does anyone remember that or still have that insert? I do.
Great selection of records behind you!! Great play list.