Beatles Icon Sir Paul McCartney remains the outstanding survivor of the golden 60s!
17.06.2022 - 14:09
/ msn.com
Having just finished his latest US tour, Sir Paul's birthday celebrations include headlining the Glastonbury Festival for the second time next Saturday, this time as an octogenarian - a powerful demonstration of how to enjoy life beyond state retirement age and testament to his undimmed star power. Although his hair is grey and his voice is weaker, he delivers a knockout stage show, studded with The Beatles songs that people want to hear. Seeing him live is the closest you can get to experience the magic of the Fab Four, though to this day he remains slightly prickly on the subject of who broke up the band.
When it was suggested in a recent interview that he caused the terminal rift by launching his solo career in 1970, he replied firmly: "Stop right there. I'm not the person who instigated the split. John [Lennon] walked into the room one day and said, 'I'm leaving The Beatles'.
Is that instigating the split, or not?"He continued: "There was this guy called Allen Klein [their erstwhile manager] who was going to take it all, everything we had ever worked for. I had to fight. ""The only way I could fight was in suing the other Beatles because they were going with Klein, and they thanked me for it years later.
But I didn't instigate the split. That was our Johnny!"Although Lennon has been dead for more than four decades (and George Harrison died in 2001), the break-up of the world's favourite group clearly remains a tender subject for Sir Paul, who was deeply hurt when his friends turned against him. He has spent the subsequent decades trying to prove he is more than a mere crowd-pleaser whose only great song was Yesterday, as Lennon once sniped.
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