McCARTNEY: The DARKEST DAYS - The Beatles' Breakup and Lennon Feud - If Guitars Could Speak... #30
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McCartney: The Darkest Days - If Guitars Could Speak... #30
Today’s entry will be all about my favorite band of all time, The Beatles, the time surrounding their break up and the emotional toll that it took on their bass player and half of the legendary songwriting team that created so much of the success that we take for granted in the 1960s. You might be surprised at how low Paul McCartney got in this period. If you’ve watched the epic documentary “Get Back” already, this story will pick up where that doc left off. But before we take a look, let’s have a little history.
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Everyone wanted Paul to cry and talk constantly about it in public…time has vindicated his hard work and dignity
Yep, people so like to have drama.
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?
“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.
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.
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!!! 🚶🏿♂️🚶🏿♂️🚶🏿♂️🚶🏿♂️☮❤
You could see it in his eyes when he said "and then there were two". He didn't want to Beatles to split.
They were all amazing. Paul still is... and they all blow me away.
This is all water under the bridge - but I'm sure glad we have their music.
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.
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".
Excellent timeline of the events leading to the break-up-- thank you for doing this
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.
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.
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.
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 👏👏👏👏
Really appreciate your insight into this story. Great presentation as always...thank you Guitar Historian...
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) .... :-)
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!
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.
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.
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
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!
I enjoyed that. Well done.
I can tell you're a real fan. I've just watched the documentary. It was very interesting.
Loved this episode
Great job 👋❤️🏴
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!
Great stuff we can carry on.
Thank you for the great content!
While I can appreciate Paul's post-Beatles work, I always thought his best stuff was with the Beatles.
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.
“Something” my favorite Beatles song. George wrote it. 🖤
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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 Beatles Forever ❤️
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?
Great analysis 👍
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. 👍👍✌️
I saw Paul on the "Driving Rain" tour. It was THE best concert I've ever seen, and probably ever will see.
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.
Well done thanks man.
excellent piece, thank you
Good job. Well researched. Very enjoyable.
Great selection of records behind you!! Great play list.
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
1st time watcher. I hope I like it.
Great to see the Trower album cover behind you. He is absolutely criminally underknown and underacknowledged.
ruclips.net/video/pT8_3MuLye8/видео.html 😉
I’m very impressed with Paul these days
Excellent video 👍
I'm quite certain his darkest days were nothing to do with the break-up of a band he'd grown up with but rather when he and his children lost Linda.
… I can’t argue with that point.
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 vid, I had no idea Paul had all these issues. It's a bit true, Paul's solo career was mostly soft pop with a few great moments. Having said that, he kept the The Beatles together from Pepper to the end. We owe Paul quite a lot.
BOTR, ram,venus and mars are all great, flaming pie, chaos and creation as well
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
Love yer show mr
The Beatles story is unique in the time period that they showed up in. They were talented. They were very fortunate to find Brian Epstein because he orchestrated all the contracts, marketing and business affairs. He probably was a great arbitrator and understood what buttons to push. He was the glue that held them together. When he died that is when a lot of the underlining tensions were just to great.
If you look at the History of most rock bands most do not last more than 10-12 years anyway. Even as long as the Stones have been together that ship has not always run very smooth. Especially between the two principals. Keith Richards and Mick Jagger.
Maybe if they had formed in their 30's things may have lasted longer. Living life is a balancing act. You may not think about things that way in your late teens through your mid 20's. But by your early 30's the dynamics change and you find that you must balance work, home, hobbies and other responsibilities. Paul was able to do that for 10 years until Lennon was assassinated. Then it became clear that everyone must step up their security.
Epstein keep 25%. That left 75% /4. Yes he managed them alright!
@@kendallsmith1458 I suspect that Allen Klein keep more! McCartney did not like Klein.
Almost word for word from Wikipedia "Break-up of the Beatles".
Well done 👍🏻
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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.
I suggest looking up the 1986 Q Magazine interview recording for a really interesting perspective in addition to what is said here. Paul goes into a lot of this information in a pretty candid and unusually unguarded conversation with one of the journalists from the magazine. Paul was definitely in the wrong for the way he treated George in the latter years of the Beatles, and I think that the desire to enstate the Eastmans as managers would have been as disasterous as Klien, but I would argue that he really had to take the leadership role that he did. He was the most capable instrumentalist, producer and business mind among the four band members. What's more the other pair of the songwriting duo was by that point a paranoid herione user who regularly showed up late to rehearsal and recording sessions if at all. It's sad the way it ended up, but honestly the work that Paul had to put in to manage his drug addled, emotionally abusive, jealous and paranoid best friend really made a longterm peace with the band impossible.
paul actually suggested other options as well, he wasnt adamant about eastmans the way john was adamant about klein
I was born in late 1960 and remember the last albums when they came out because my older sisters had all the records. I always thought Paul was the leader at that point because he seemed to sing all the songs. What blew my mind was how radically their music had changed from the earlier records. Paul was a melody maker, every song sounded like a lullaby but were too mushy without Johns harder edge and better lyrics. Some of my favorite songs were written by George. I liked their 70's solo records.
Having lived through Beatlemania and the breakup I won't go so far as to say I'm shocked by this revelation but I am surprised. I didn't realize Paul was in such a funk and I don't remember the press being so critical of him [and I'm old enough to have seen them on Ed Sullivan]. In my opinion all of Paul's post Beatles work was way better than Lennon's. Sounds like the journalists were simple Lennon fanboy sycophants. And likely the fact that most journalists are left-wing fanatics they championed Lennon's politics whereas McCartney mostly steered clear of politics so not "one of them". The only Lennon song I liked was "whatever gets you through the night" whereas I loved everything Paul did. Imagine, is a good song but the line "imagine there's no heaven" burns it for me. One of my favorite parts is Paul throwing the bucket at the head of the journalist who showed up uninvited LOL. But this video is some significant history and the majority of which I never knew. Great post.
Good video except for one thing - Rolling Stone Magazine was started in 1967, so it wasn't exactly new.
Regardless whose "fault" it was the Beatles broke up, I think it was just time for it to happen.
I didn't know they took a break from each other after Revolver and pursued other interests. That had to help their creativity, growing outside of the band individually. It was something they brought back to the band.
I agree about George's writing getting dissed. He wrote some very good stuff with the Beatles and I'm not just referring to Something or While My Guitar Gently Weeps, both of which rival ANYTHING Paul or John wrote. Today I think his song The Inner Light should have been the A side of the single instead of Lady Madonna. It's just a better and more interesting song.
I don't know who was right between the Klein vs. the Eastmans dispute, though Paul did get out voted.
As to Long and Winding Road, it is a Beatles song I thoroughly dislike. Long and Boring Road is more like it. And somehow having Phil Spector in the studio with his wall of sound and what not just doesn't feel right for me with the Beatles.
I know some of Paul's early work after the Beatles got panned, but I like some of it very much and I don't agree with the critics. I think his first solo album is very good. Wings did some very good stuff too. I like Band on the Run the best. Though Wild Life gets panned, I like it very much also. And that includes the song Bip Bop off it which Paul doesn't like but I think is just a fun song. Rock doesn't have to be profound to be good.
Can you tell me where I could hear this recording of their last meeting? I read about this meeting in the book one day at a time written by Anthony faucet in the 1970s, but I never heard it.
Good job.
Billy,er,Paul deserves credit for crackin' the whip (as was part of his deal when joining in late 66')& crankin' out the hits when most bands would've bit the dust when one of their key members had died.With the rise of the internet the differences in height,eye color,shoe size and shape of the head it's quite obvious that McCartney was replaced.Sorry Fab fans.Good job William.R.I.P. Paul.
You’re a jackass.
My hands didant open,and were twisted to the side (genectic disorder shorter tendons) but i opened my left by playing bass in my first band a beatles copy band age12 in 1976,no i never got the fame i wanted,but i did get the music,and far less disabled hands..this is how much an effect the beatles had on some people,,as they say in liverpool YNWA
The remaining Fabs called The Anthology "Mythology"& if you watch the new/old "Get Back"there's a part in the 3rd episode of the movie where producer George Martin calls "William" into the control room & ""McCartney" abruptly turns his head.They never called Billy Preston "William".Hate all you want but it's there.Similar to the bomb of a movie "Give My Regards To Broad Street" where " Paul"is greeted into a recording studio as again as "William"."Nothing is Real"-Strawberry Fields-J.Lennon.
Stop.
And, sooo much more. You've hit on the tip of the iceberg. It's a difficult thing to consider and most aren't willing.
🏆 Oscar winning doc
John vs Paul one falls on one side of the fence. In the end, does it really matter
What a sad rivalry all because Paul didn't trust Klein while John did.
The Beatles will always be relevant.
Well presented. However nothing really said that even relatively casual fans weren't aware of.
Come on man. It was the Concert in Toronto that changed John's mind. Yoko liked the stage and pushed john into a new direction without the Beatles.
‘“I exhibited all the classic symptoms of the unemployed, the redundant man. First you don’t shave, and it’s not to grow a groovy beard, it’s because you cannot be fucking bothered.
Anger, deep deep anger sets in, with everything, with yourself number one, and with everything in the world number two.
I didn’t get up. Mornings weren’t for getting up. I might get up and stay on the bed a bit and not know where to go, and get back into bed. Then if I did get up, I’d have a drink. Straight out of bed. I’ve never been like that.
There are lots of people who’ve been through worse things than that but for me this was bad news because I’d always been the kind of guy who could really pull himself together and think, Oh, fuck it, but at that time I felt I’d outlived my usefulness.”’
- Paul McCartney reflecting on the state of his mental health after Beatles break up
The one question id ask paul about abbey road is just who was maxwell anyway?
John, Paul and George: arguing
Ringo: Hey guys? Can we play now?
The Lorne Michaels check was $3,000. And the other funny skit was George Harrison showing up to get the whole $3,000 by himself. George had a great sense of humor in the 70s. This was around when Crackerjack palace came out.
I though John kept McCartney as a credit on give peace a chance because Paul supported him on the Ballad of John and Yoko?
That's the way I understood it as well (I think it was mentioned in Nicholas Schaffner's "The Beatles Forever" book?). John had a burst of inspiration and wanted to record "The Ballad of John and Yoko," but George and Ringo had other commitments. And despite the state The Beatles were at this point, Paul still cared about John, and gladly helped record the song
I heard Lennon put Lennon/McCartney because he was afraid to put just Lennon. He also did it because Paul helped with The Ballad of J and Y
I would love to know which British bands made it instantaneously..... because the four years where the Beatles worked so very hard were essentially when they were all still in their teens.
The Beatles were the best band of the decade, if not all time, but at some point it seems that they began to tire of being on top, and being hyper popular. George, and John seemed worn out first, and they were sick of Paul relentlessly pushing. Paul is probably the most talented, and hard working of the group, but too obsessive, and overbearing. They all had gigantic egos from being #1 for so long, which makes it hard to work with others. They had all had enough. That's why I think that they broke up.
I totally agree about Paul.. the business wore them out
All four are equally talented. It's like taking Superman and chopping him into four pieces. The whole sum was better than the four parts.
You are completely ignorant to the truth, the real Paul McCartney died on September 11th 1966. When you look at all of the behaviors of the Beatles and Brian Epstein following that date it makes sense. The anger by John Lennon and the group was because they were being forced to live out a lie and let Billy Shepherd a known studio musician masquerade as Paul.
@@dgp187 If that's the truth then why is the imposter greater than the original. McCartney as a member of the Beatles was better from 1967 to 1970. They would have allowed the original in from 1962 to 1966. An example is that the Beatles replaced drummer Pete Best with Ringo Starr. Also Paul's father Jim Mac would have treated an impostor differently.
@@ralphgarcia913 how in the world would he be better? They never toured again together after 1966 why? The entire relationship changed between them, why? Epstein killed himself why?
The Beatles disbanded because Paul in late 1968 wanted to leave the group and start a solo career, as he wanted to get all the money, be the sole star, and play softer music. He then told Hunter Davis about this, and to prepare the public Paul released the film Let It Be / Get Back, which John called Paul's film for Paul. This is the basis. Everything else is just excuses or little things that did not have a decisive influence.
What tape is this of them discussing an album????
Paul has this odd quality that, at times, seems to make him impervious to advice. Once he makes a decision, there is no changing his mind. George wrote great songs that were well received by their fans, but Paul thought he was not that good a songwriter, and that was that. He decided that the manager for the Beatles should be his brother-in-law, with no recognition that this would be perceived by his band members as a conflict of interest, and no attempt made to find a neutral alternative to Klein. He forced endless takes on Maxwell's Silver Hammer, a dopy song that is by far the worst track of the Abbey Road album. In the end, he was, and still is, quite arrogant. He is polite about it, but his politeness doesn't make it any less intractable.
I have no doubt Paul suffered greatly in the immediate aftermath of the Beatle's breakup. The cognitive dissonance Paul must have suffered during that time was surely agonizing. How could he reconcile with such a dramatic event, when he was incapable of understanding his own role in its occurrence? Nothing would make sense to Paul in those early days and months, lost and aimless in the haze of a remembrance warped like a maze of funhouse mirrors. It was only after a substantial amount of time passed that the pain eventually dissipated on its own, and the inner crisis was averted, with no insight gained in its wake. He definitely didn't learn from it, because he was just as tyrannical with members of Wings.
The meeting on 20/9/69 was well enacted in the John & Yoko miniseries in the 80s, and Paul's subsequent breakdown around the time of the surprise visit from the Life magazine crew a few weeks later was also in the public record. But that conversation on 8/9/69 is revelatory, and I think John was looking for a final justification for leaving. Did he notify Ringo (who worked on his first solo) and George (who later joined the plastic ono band) in advance of his declaration to Paul? I appreciate the clarification that the divisive Klein issue didn't arise until February. On what what date was John notified about the failure to retain control of Northern Songs, another extremely sore point?
I'd like to know on what date Cold Turkey was rejected by the rest of the band or was it just McCartney. That might've been the final straw for John. We do know that Ringo played on the session.
Paul was supposedly drinking a lot of wine at the time. His face does look a little bloated in parts of Get Back, compared to Lennon's skinny junkie body frame.
FWIW the timeline of the SNL thing is wrong. They didn't almost go on, the Lorne Michaels bit was a week after Paul had visited John in NYC. And the amount offered was $3000, not $300
lot of anti paul slant here. in watching the doc the beatles clearly were not as unhappy as they said here about recording maxwells....there was a ton of anti paul stuff being put out which has been gradually amended over the last few decades...for instance Let it Be the original movie gave a real bad look at paul....the get back doc has given a much more in depth look at what was really going on...John was a fool for trusting Allen Klein as were George and Ringo for following......I don't mean to say you are anti paul...I mean that the decade following the breakup paul took a beating...the last few decades have been much kinder....the truth is probably somewhere in the middle
You thought this video was anti-Paul? I must’ve made a mistake in the tone. Not what was I going for at all. But you also can’t take away that Paul’s reflex to the band drifting apart was to tighten his grip rather than “Let It Be,” so to tell a complete story, I had to point out the possible ways that Paul made mistakes as well.
@@TheGuitarHistorian I perhaps phrased it wrong ..I thought you gave awesome info. I'm a huge fan and know the history of the band and solo for all guys. so to keep my attention at this point is a job well done...I tried to correct my statement at the end....the press and general fan consensus in the 70s was very anti paul and pro John and george as Paul was seen as a taskmaster due to let it be (original movie) , and the fact he was seen as the one who broke them up...the last few decades have seen a real change towards paul...Ram was hated when it came out...I got it as a teen in 91...it was still panned...then Kurt Cobain says in an interview that he thought ram was the first indie album and a real influence on him...now the album is considered a classic . Nikki sixx recently named Band on the Run as his first choice as a desert island album.....he never would have said that back in the day...so I was trying (not so eloquently lol) to say that in the last 20 to 30 years the stance on Paul has softened since the 70s..obviously you could only use 70s quotes and interviews with John from the 70s since he died in 80...I used to listen to mccartney 2 in the early 90s...people would ask me wtf I was listening to....now temporary secretary is considered an edm classic...djs play it on clubs etc...trust me ...in the 80s and early 90s no dj would be caught dead playing anything from mccartney 2....hopefully that explains my thought process better ....I actually loved your segment because I find it so hard to find anything on the beatles that I haven't seen or heard 1000 times. I was born in 74 and my father is a bass player...he was playing me mccartney and the beatles while I was still in utero...I love alot of bands and artists, but noone touches the catalog these guys compiled.....kudos to you for mentioning the incident on Paul's farm with the reporter...ive only heard someone mention that 1 time before in the hundreds of mccartney segments I've viewed....
On the general subject of plagiarism, I only THOUGHT I was pissed off at the legal ruling against George for 'My Sweet Lord". I was familiar with both songs, and was (and still am) convinced that was a reach to award that kind of penalty.
A few years ago (now) I heard or read that Spirit sued Zeppelin for plagiarism, regarding 'Stairway to Heaven' vs. an earlier Spirit song.
I then listened to THAT Spirit song - which I'd never heard before. Well, guess what. Their lawsuit was AT LEAST as valid as the one against George. But, guess what... again... Spirit LOST theirs.
As if we need more proof that the law has nothing to do with right or wrong, or fair/unfair.
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Paul’s songs were not only better than John’s.., they were much, MUCH better than John’s.., both in the Beatles and after. While John did have a couple “gems” after the Beatles broke up, The Plastic Ono Band was complete shit !
.., just dreadful music…
Hmmmmmmmm For some reason 😱 I sense a Bill Nelson episode a comin 🥸
I think Paul was probably leery of going on with Lennon’s terms as heard on that tape. Yes, it all sounded very nice, but I think that even though he wanted the Fabs to go on, he just couldn’t do it with Klein at the helm and with the bad blood that had developed between them. Why do something you love with people you don’t.
Paul bought the farm in Scotland 🏴 in 1966
Yes and most likely was buried there too...
He saw Back To The Egg in his future and it made him weep with desperation. “John, John, don’t leave me!” John was too busy being slapped around by Yoko. George was sucking on lemons to counteract his bitterness. Ringo took up a career of alcoholism and backed off boogaloo.
😂 that and give my regards to broad st.
I just watched the Guitar Historian's video titled "Is Eric Clapton a Racist?". Unfortunately, comments are not allowed on that video which is very disappointing because this is a subject that should be discussed. So here are my thoughts. His rant occurred almost fifty years ago. He was drunk. That doesn't excuse it but he does shine light on his state of mind which was not particularly clear. People do ridiculous and hurtful things when they are drugged out. What really counts is someone's behavior. I've never known Clapton to commit a racist act. He's polite and welcoming to people of all colors. Clapton sponsors a drug rehab facility on the island of Antigua which took in my son for six weeks. I visited there as well. Many of the employees and many of the patients are black. The facility does good work and Clapton supports it knowing the drugs can really screw up your mind and your life. My son is a good kid but on drugs he's a thoughtless, thieving, self centered maniac. I'm talking mostly heroin and meth. Eric knows about that. He's made amends for his rant.
I made the video because I had made several other videos about Eric, and I felt that it needed to be addressed as part of the complete story. Unfortunately, I don’t believe you are correct about Eric making amends completely. He went on to make positive comments about Enoch Powell as recently as the mid-2000s. And he has kind of brushed it off in most interviews. Perhaps he agrees with you that it was 5-0 years ago and the need to apologize has passed. However the rant was so ridiculously horrifying that I feel the time has never passed. It’s not to minimize his good work and most of his life. But he’s running from it. It would quiet a lot of people if he just finally formally apologized.
@@TheGuitarHistorian I have never heard of Enoch Powell before today. I googled him and read some about him and his River of Blood speech given in 1968 where he criticizes the rates of immigration. Also from Wikipedia, "In the aftermath of the speech, several polls suggested that 67 to 82 per cent of the UK population agreed with Powell's opinions." If Powell is a racist then does that mean the 67 to 82 percent of the British public is racist? Before calling someone racist, we should really look into the persons actions closely. It has become too quick an allegation.