Paul McCartney on Who Broke Up the Beatles 

The Howard Stern Show us folk in the UK can’t see it cause we’re not in the US

3:14: This guy... (Michael Jackson)??

3:14 I assume that's Allen Klein

MrGetWellSoon I believe it was Allen Klein.

no dude, it's their former manager Allen Klein

I'm just tryna be like Ringo😂😂

hahahaha

Facts

peachy จูบ lol ringo was just happy to be along for the ride

Imagine a world without Ringo as Thomas. I'm glad they split XD

Stars from the 60s To the 80s have that quality since they're used To these types of questions and interviews, TV was so different back then.

Only because John is dead. He never would’ve done that when John was alive

Stern is a great interviewer.

Howard never holds back

Paul is as straight talking as it comes. Now that I’m much older, I truly appreciate him

Classic Guitar thought that too 😂

Yeah... west coast and east coast rappers think they created that shit. LOL

Inuit people invented it thousands of years ago they would basically have public song battles over a lover and the audience would pick the winner but the woman would pick who she wanted to stay with

Nooooo not at all 😂

Lmao! Cladsic!

Lol, straight as an arrow

He’s had so many years for the damage to heal, to not be bothered by those times, amazing really, time does heal. Imagine how sour they were at the time, writing vicious songs about eachother, throwing eachother out of each others houses.

He even raised his hand 🤚 haha

And its even weirder that there are dudes rampant on this video pretending Paul doesnt know what he went through, just so they can talk shit about yoko. What assholes

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@@redicedtea8729 Or at all...

A question that the interviewer didn't even mean to ask!! Even Stern!!!

McCartney’s ego/talent broke up the Beatles.

And Paul spoke the truth. Not the ignorant, racist, sexist nonsense uttered by butthurt fans. JOHN broke up the band!

Well, i mean. He let that happen, didnt he?

And Paul is right.

I Love Roger Meddows Taylor people always blame the ‘mistress’ but never the ‘cheater’. Put the blame where it belongs... on John

He doesn't want to say Yoko because she's still alive and they still have to see each other on occasion.

Facts

Lmao right? I was shocked at how much Paul let him be right lol.

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To people that don't know much about Howard, that's classic Howard for you.

It's an interview tactic. It's easier to get an answer by saying the wrong one than by asking.

HAHAHAHA Good Ole Howard 😅

Aint that the truth tho.......agreed on all fronts

That's cool respect it,but when he starts injecting her into band business,that is crossing the line. She didn't come up with the idea to form the band,she didn't put in the practice,and put up with all the hardship it takes to get to that point. John selfishly added a 5th member that the others had not agreed to.

It was a simp statement.

...A liiiiiiiiiiiiittle late though.

Yeah, because you know what they say. "Speak ill of the dead". He's not exactly going to say anythign else...

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I don't know, but John Lennon was T-Posing before it was cool. That's at least what I know😊

Throwback Thursday perfect comment

ever heard johns track "how do you sleep"? john recorded it with george and ringo after the band split and pretty much every lyric is a diss towards paul.

They probably invented them.

they were soul mates all 4 of them

He has a sense of clarity and acceptance that most people don’t have, usually someone who answers a question like that would do it from a place of anger or resentment but Paul did it from a place of truth

Well, thanks god somebody broke up the Beatles too. This way they ended with Let it Be. Else they'd have ended with increasingly embarrassing crappy middle age albums, and still playing on stage in adult diapers.

No one around to question his version also helps

Harry Inkpot Did you have a stroke?

It's like saying your gonna play with the same basketball team for the rest of your life. Or like your going to love the same person for the rest of your life. That's not how life works. You've got to move on. Nobody with a brain on there shoulders thought the beatles were gonna stay together forever.

Indeed they were best mates at a very young age 😔😔

Spencer Dobkin Yes.

Horseshit.This asshole loves himself.

Yes he did ,I think

I think , in a strange way, it's a very good thing the band broke up. In our days everything seems to be ran to the ground till people are freaking sick of it. It's noble to go when you 're still at your best.

People were controlling them from the start so what the f***you taking about?

6 years? 1962-70 makes 8-9 years in my book

....and it was even longer, if you lived in Hamburg or Liverpool.

They gave longer than 6 years, if you count the years before they broke in the U.S. You must be American.

6 Years? I think its 60 years and counting....as long as there is a World there will be history. Where there is history, there will be The Beatles

Nearly a thousand likes and have no reply.

@@shahaffiq5860 I still consider it no replies

Same.

We all do

we all do eddie

Love Paul? Have a look at Car pool karoeke , an episode featuring Paul.. ...fantastic.

They're out there

watch Beatles Anthology...

or inventing them...

Omg would love that

Then he goes home and makes more MSPaint art lol

Probably that's why they sent him. They probably figured he'd be the least likely to get into a fight about it and that Paul would accept the papers politely.

Ringo was the classiest of the 4

Victoria People can change over time, although I think in many ways Ringo was the most laid back of the Beatles, he also was the first to quit the group (in '68, during the recording of the White album). There are some things Paul doesn't mention to Stern, which I think he should have. Recently, a cassette tape has surfaced of a meeting which John, Paul and George had in early September, 1969, where the three talk about plans for the next Beatles album and the next single for tentatively December, 1969. John suggests that the Lennon/McCartney songwriting credit be stopped, that each song be credited to only the person who wrote it. Paul rejects this idea. John also suggests that from now on, each Beatles album should have four songs each by John, Paul and George, and two by Ringo (if he wants to). Paul rejects this. Paul and George then get into it when Paul claims that George's songs (prior to the Abbey Road album) haven't been as good as he and John's. Paul also rejected John's song Cold Turkey as a possible Beatles song. Maybe, just maybe, if Paul hadn't been so stubborn, maybe John wouldn't have decided (after coming back from Toronto) that he wanted out of the group. By the way, this September '69 recorded meeting was John's idea, since Ringo was in the hospital and John wanted Ringo to hear what the other three had talked about. This doesn't sound like someone who was only thinking of himself and his precious wife. My own feeling is that if they had a manager during their last couple of years together, especially if Epstein hadn't died, he may have been able to get John, Paul and George to reason with each other, but then, maybe not. I don't know how he would have reacted to Yoko's new role in John's life. Who knows.

I gather it wasn't so much Ringos manner but more that Paul saw through it, they always sent someone to do the dirty work for them

Unless you're in the royal family and your name is either Charles, Camilla, Diana, William, Catherine, Harry, or Meghan.

@@tammylewis2408 Nah, see what happened to the family today Harry and Meghan are gone.

Howard likes the sound of his own voice.

Classic Howard. He gets some of the best interviews of all time, but he always interrupts them, and during some great conversations. Drives me crazy.

It was time for Lennon to leave, he had seen everything

Fucking Lol!

LMAO

Thank god he did, some say his voiceover completely changed western culture

I agree - that theory certainly has legs...well, wheels any way.

It's all disinformation.

Exactly

I hope your joking. When a guy puts his hand over his mouth then he is very careful in what he says. John had already made his mind up to leave some months before, but he just didn't know how to tell the others. That was until he had enough of the stalling and then it all came out.

Paul was the one who officially ended the group and it was fucked up on his part. He asked John to not tell anyone about the Beatles breaking up and if no one knows they are broken up then they are still together basically. Paul made it officially news that the Beatles broke up making it seem like he left the band

Install a Friend even on Marc Maron’s podcast he’s just been giving straight, honest answers to everything

And the common denominator is...ego, money, or that's life. My favorite book about the Fab Four is the one written by the junior studio engineer.

People who like good music: Don't listen to the Beatles mostly overproduced, sugary catalogue.

@@RollingOrmond "poeple who like good music" ew

@@RollingOrmond People who are wise - don't shit on people's tastes, it's all subjective bro

Lol

haha true

Before ice cube and NWA

@Waldo Rojas no disrespect to Ringo but I completely disagree with you

@Waldo Rojas lol I love the beatles but you cannot possibly believe George Harrison was less talented than Ringo... unless, of course, it's in reverse

Waldo Rojas damn thats messed up

Waldo Rojas so very true

I agree. I was at his concert last Saturday night. He has amazing energy, touring around the world at 77 and performing a full 2 hours and 45 minutes without taking a break. I totally would love to see him live to be a centenarian. He’s got the Vegan diet for him, he’s healthy. He could do it.

Nice. Ringo the less smart, John and George knew Paul would be so fucking angry

Jesse Cole FUCK OFF GET OUTTA MY HOUSE

@@carlosvelasquez3279 not "less smart" - Ringo was more steadfastly nice so John and George (and probably really crooked managet Allan Klein) used "nice guy" Ringo to do their dirty work.

And hits it on the nose immediately, without pause. Who knows Ringo better, other than his wife of course.

Fuck off, get outta my house

He is re writing the Beatles History because John and George cannot rebut his viewpoint.

@@zman3351what exactly is he rewriting? Which points exactly? And if you know factually what is the actual truth do tell.

Paul is just honest He doesn't want to hide anything It's has been a while

Ardeth Bay reverse psychology

wrong. simple shit.

Although i assume everyone who is a Beatles fan already knew that, right? I mean that's all i ever heard growing up or whenever the question was asked. I think the better question would have been is what if Paul had actually hooked up with Yoko instead? She went for him first after all lol. Well, messes and band break-ups aside, such is life.

Honestly,if you look at the history of the breakup,they actually started breaking up after the end of their last tour. See,with no longer needing to tour and all that,there was a decreased need to spend time together,this lead to the individual members doing things on their own and discovering that they didn't need to be Beatles to be fulfilled.

"We we're weaponising songs" - is more poetic. Goes to show the man's lyric development.

But with something called " subtlety"

jake paul mccartney

99.999999999999 percent sure he did not invent dissing in songs

Author have been doing this centuries before

stfu he did. Paul is very shy and he likes others to do the talking. Howard is the GOAT.

I totally get where you're coming from, but I have to say there's an excitement coming from Howard that you normally don't see. He was kind of falling all over himself. You can tell what the Beatles mean to him. After all, many (myself included) regard them as the greatest band of all time.

That's Howard. Always

Really? This seems improbable.

Lucky you! Half of the greatest songwriting team of all...IMO

Brent Diveykin that’s such a great story

A dream come true i must say, you're an incredibly blessed man :)

Wow that’s so cool! I saw him in concert and would love to meet him in person

Incredible interviewer

Dude, is a bloody fuckin' amazing interviewer.

David T even one they didn’t do. And Howard would do all the talking about his knowledge of it.

David T he did that one time haha, with the serial killer guy that called in, the guy ended up getting caught too

I did it!

What does a man with a pipe and a slipper mean?😶

@@keshaveenandan3226 it means he would be a man of leisure. Doing nothing. No stress, no worries. That the woman would do everything for him.

@@keshaveenandan3226 I'm not British so I'm not sure 100% but a pipe is something you smoke out of it. It's classy or whatever. And if you're smoking a pipe while walking around slippers, you're probably pretty chill

@@keshaveenandan3226 im assuming it means like a simple man

Keshavee Nandan it refers to a simple bourgeois home life with traditional gender roles....woman stays home, is a housewife and looks after the kids, and the man goes out to work, and when he gets home, he sits in his chair with his slippers, the paper and his pipe, while his wife looks after him... And no drama John was obviously a bit too rebellious for that kind of traditional lifestyle.

True artists dont have that seperation.

Blurring the line between his personal life and his work(which includes his songwriting) is the reason why his songs are so intimate and close. Although he wasn't the nicest in the room he probably was the most honest. He was always real and for that he comes off as an asshole. There were no lines separating his life.maybe it was a bad thing but sure was instrumental in the way lennon's songs hit so close to home. Any way that's just how I feel about it. Peace, love and have a good one

just like a marriage...money,sex,family interference..it all fucks shit up

He loved one more than the other. It happens. They all respect his decision (maybe not George I don't know), who are we to say shit

John's writing was so fantastic because he used his emotions, but as time went on his emotions became more of a rage than a depression. Yoko Ono also continuously pushed him to work harder, all that made the other band members want to work harder too, which is what made the white album so chaotic.

That's like classical british interviews 101 there

philmstud2k thats the Englishmen in him haha

He's a man who has nothing to prove and needs nothing from nobody. He has no fucks left to give he'll say it like it is.

philmstud2k

Preach it! The Beatles might have motored along till about the mid 1970's had that idiot Yoko not come into the picture but you're right, she had no place being there at all, especially in the studio. Apart from that when I hear bullshit like this here I'm reminded of just how annoying she truly is and how much I hate her! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HdZ9weP5i68.html

Yes, and the band suffered due to John's refusal to heed the Beatles " established " rule...No Women...were allowed in the recording studio.

Dontvote ForAnybody and look how that ended ....

Dontvote ForAnybody he chose Loco over his own son too

I have several mutual colleagues with Yoko from her days in Japan and after she met John. To man, every single one of them, has said she is a massive bitch.

It is called Semantics, wise ass. Did you listen to all of it? John was the tip, Yoko was the dick, and you are the ass hole

Johns obsession with Yoko did? Then Yoko broke up the Beatles.

People who understand the situation: Yoko was the cause. John chose her over the band. Very simple fact

Axel Bergström he said he wasn’t used to her sitting in on the studio

I disagree

Henkibojj Lars be like 😂

Oh I was so looking for this. thanks :D

Calm down Lars lol

Which part of that got left out of the equation

Dalle Smalhals 😂

Oh yeah he cared for the Beatles tremendously, he probably would have kept the Beatles going forever if he could, but when John announced he was leaving then Paul eventually had no choice but to make it official months later. This explains why Paul started working on his first solo album before the big breakup of The Beatles announcement came. Paul knew it was coming and so he was trying to move on although I've heard it was very difficult for a while

He was THE Beatles

FBGOODIE! He did. John represented a “challenge” for his songwriting penmanship

Ringo has called Paul a Beatleoholic. Paul went through a very rough time after they broke up. Started drinking heavily and was quite depressed.

No shit? Thank's Captain Obvious.

kari mcnay: Except that not all families make up after some disagreements, mine didn't and never will.

It's a marriage, like any group of people working together! It's amazing these things last as long as they do!!!

Well said!

kari mcnay Yeah I thought the same thing when he said and was so good to hear that :)

Exactly. What surprises me is that I have just writing about in Quora...and then it was confirmed but Paul himself. Wow!

as it should be.

Rahul Harrison was great and soft spoken! Music sucks now!

Please link some of your favourites!

Do you know where can i find them?

That's Scousers for you!

Hello dear,how are you doing?

Hand position is irrelevant.

Crap. The five beatles (including George Martin) arent fit to wipe Brian Wilson's shoes. He IS a genius

fool4singing the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Curtis Mayfield, Red Hot Chili Peppers. Funk' music is amazing...I love being old school:) and classic rock'

Idk about hands down most interesting but I agree with the rest. Honestly actually most of that could be disputed for Queen too.

Can't argue with that.

Love Paul. He has been on both ends of the spectrum: Breaking up of the Beatles and so many fans worshiped John; Paul's beloved wife dies; Paul marries a gold-digger whose sole intent was to marry long enough to get half of his wealth; and now, 50 years later, Paul is sharp, healthy, still performing and setting the record straight with grace. That's how he's handled his life through all the ups downs.

Sometimes you need ten years apart when you've been that close for so long and fallen out. I think something could have happened in the 80s if John lived.

Got to be one of my favorite songs of all time!

Written by Paul & Linda McCartney, performed by Paul McCartney & Wings. Hit #1 in 1974.

Me too...I wish he did a 3 hr sitdown with howard on this type of stuff

I'd be honored if some Paul McCartney fans would check out my acoustic piano & vocal interpretation of his early masterpiece BLACKBIRD on my channel. Live acoustic with no digital editing. Thanks and peace.

Howard talks to much tho.

He and Jimmy Page are two of the most interesting people on Planet Earth.

Yeah...he gives great sounding interviews without saying anything new!!!

PS: Forgive the lateness of my reply.

Yes. Ringo got hurt at that time. He even mentioned it to the judge. It seems Paul still now doesn't know the truth. George and John didn't delegate Ringo to go there. Ringo offered himself to go because he thought it would have been rude to send via the post office and it was the intention. He said it would be much nicer. But Paul could not understand and acted just like he said. Unfortunately Linda applauded saying he didn't have to accept that crap. If I was his wife ( I wish...LOL) I would stick by his side, but then I would suggest him to ring Ringo to apologise, as Ringo was not guilty of anything. He only wanted to help.

oh so like every other day? lol.

kinda cracked me up shyman99!

Ringo denies the whole story,saying that it never happened. So I wonder which version is the truth.

Javier Diaz okay, Howard

He's not the greatest living musician LOL. He was a great pop song writer for a time but that it.

Yeah...Billy is so honest!

so true!

At times, yes. Then there were the times when he asked Ringo Starr which one of the Beatles had the biggest penis.

stillpissedatyoko.com

While you’re at it, get one that talks about how Eve really shouldn’t have given that apple to Adam.

Sexist non sense. Yoko is not to blame for anything. JOHN was a grown man and responsible for his actions. JOHN wanted out of the band. JOHN broke up the Beatles. Anyone to be mad ad at it is JOHN!

You can always go to a website that makes custom bumper stickers and order one.

timothy kearns I wasn’t around when they broke up. I’m still pissed too lol. My favorite band of all time.

Jhon?

I mean... he's had a few decades to digest it

Lmfao bless your heart dear.

And he did. Paul couldn't understand the refusal of John. and Co. to keep it out of the press.

So sad the love was gone!!!!!

I bet they would’ve eventually if John didn’t get killed.

Really?!?!

@@evanbelisle8464 I recently heard that they were talking about getting the Beatles back together when John was killed.

@@Atalanta1313 There's no doubt they would have eventually gotten back together for at least a song, seeing as how today they are literal legends.

Front half of his hair isn't dyed here, that's the only difference ...but: You can still see the rest of hair is coloured, (everthing behind the headphones hoop).

I knew there was something about him, you are so right.

Most people gray from front to back. It is not unusual to have gray hair in front, and darker hair in back. Lots of people have that gray pattern.

Again, it is the high-grade marijuana that he smokes that keeps him relaxed and looking young!

If I had his money I'd be relaxed too

I couldn't for the life of me differentiate the 'English' accent from the 'Liverpool' accent.

Bunch of nancies

1965MJW bin dippers

In what part did he cuss

Nick Riddle you should watch the George Harrison documentary Living In The Material World, he drops a couple F-Bombs in that lol

He cusses like a sailor in private. I heard his Bonnaroo sound check and he's a tough boss on his crew. Lots of 'cunts' and 'motherfuckers' and such. He hides that side from the public. Not putting him down, mind you, but that tough Liverpool persona will always be there.

He says "fucking hell" at the 2:58 mark of Hey Jude after making a mistake on piano

Also here is a video of Paul taking about George Harrison's hair in the 1950s looking like "a fucking turban!" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-apFxk6NUuUw.html

I Dun Care underrated comment. 😂

Is that cos paul said they did Straight up scooby snacks?

Yes, and the sky is blue. Any other fresh news?

Straight up

Ha, that’s what I said when Paul said they were writing songs at each other. The first diss tracks? But then I seem to recall that Mozart and Antonio Salieri were doing it too.

There nothing new under the sun😊

Fuck offfff

You don't have to respect a completely pussy-whipped guy who couldn't leave his girlfriend at home and just go to work like everyone else does.

I don’t. John was a beta male who liked dominate woman. He had no nuts, so he deserves no respect.

Fair enough. Finally meeting a girl that isn't only a self-whipped worshipper but actually has own ideas and a will of her own, so they could both make stuff and make stuff together. Has got to have been pretty nice after being one of the gods on the planet that everyone would just bend to instantly and keep in the shadow of. Nice for him to meet someone who dared to be more than just another fan. (Even if most of us may not like her or most of her ideas about art and life. Still his choice to be with that specific person.) Cool of him to dare to be with someone where none of them are whipped, after all in the band being used to getting their own way with everything without compromises at all.

@@RollingOrmond i hate that i have to agree with you

What was their feud about?

John B. Perfectionism vs perfectionism

And don't forget Ringo as well. He also did reconcile with John at the end before his death. They actually started to make plans to possibly make another album together, but that was squashed once John was killed. If he had survived, who knows. Maybe, more than likely, they would have played together. There was always chemistry between all of them, and, like all bands, including the Rolling Stones and even Led Zeppelin, they finally did get back together. This might have been the case as well with the Beatles. All that was left for the remaining three Beatles to do was to remix and publish the music that John had written and recorded, but was never recorded on an official album.

@@johnb.8687 George felt that Paul and John ignored him and did not give his songs any time. Although Paul worked with George on some of George's songs he tended to dominate. For example, George hated the bass lines written by Paul on 'Something'. He wanted a simple straight forward bass. Interesting to note that when John was alive George wanted to work with him, but never with Paul.

He probably does. Did he ever feud with Ringo? That seems doubtful, considering how well-liked Ringo was by John, George and Paul. But I could be wrong. S.R.

It's truly beautiful.

Crap. Pet sounds is better than ANYTHING the beatles ever made. And Smile is pure bliss.

are you joking? hahaha

He's a man!💪👍😁

@Troy Staunton It's hilarious as i imagine it.🤣

Mate, you ought to listen to the Get Back/Abbey Road outtakes. He swears like a trooper. C-word and everything. Mind you, George is worse.