Mick Jagger is amused whenever Paul McCartney insists The Beatles were better than the Rolling Stones, because he is adamant there is no comparison.
10.04.2020 - 12:51 / breakingnews.ie
It’s a day many Beatles fans will have etched in their memories forever: April 10, 1970 when Sir Paul McCartney’s comments in a press release signalled the end of the world’s biggest and most beloved foursome.
While promoting a solo album, Sir Paul had said he did not know if the break from his fellow band members – John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr – was permanent or temporary.
Many years later though The Beatles remain probably the most famous foursome band ever to have existed.
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Mick Jagger is amused whenever Paul McCartney insists The Beatles were better than the Rolling Stones, because he is adamant there is no comparison.
By Bruce Haring
Mick Jagger isn’t afraid of keeping the old Rolling Stones vs. Beatles rivalry going.
Sometimes you accidentally write a song that perfectly fits the moment. That's basically what Mick Jagger told Apple Music's Zane Lowe on Friday morning (April 24), in a chat that included the origin story of the eerily prescient new Rolling Stones single "Living in a Ghost Town," while touching on the rock icon's feelings about postponing the group's tour in light of the global COVID-19 pandemic and his answer to the newly revived Stones vs.
"One band is unbelievably luckily still playing in stadiums and then the other band doesn't exist"
Ringo Starr, the drummer for the Beatles, has been urging fans to tune into The Beatles' YouTube channel on Saturday, April 25, at 12 noon. The 79-year-old musician says he has a surprise for the audience and the fact that he teased The Beatles' channel and not his own has many fans speculating that Paul McCartney too could be a part of it.
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Many classic albums are surrounded in juicy, front-page-of-the-Daily Mail drama. Then there's Paul McCartney's debut solo album, McCartney -- released 50 years ago on April 17, 1970 -- which is in a league of its own. To some, it's The Album That Ended The Beatles. But, as is so often characteristic of rock lore, much of that drama overshadows the musical artifact and its true lasting legacy.
"I love the Stones, but I’m with you. The Beatles were better."
Paul McCartney dialed in to Howard Stern's radio show on Tuesday morning (April 14) from his home in the English countryside, where he's hunkered down with one of his daughters.