When The Beatles broke up in 1970, millions of fans around the world mourned the end of one of the most popular bands in musical history. But no one has experienced it as badly, no doubt, as Paul McCartney. The artist revealed in an interview for GQ how much this separation affected him personally and how the consequences hurt him. Considered the “bad guy” of the story, when he sued Allen Klein, their former manager, and Apple Corps, the company they had founded two years earlier to publish their music.
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Introducing our September issue, featuring a world exclusive interview with cover star #PaulMcCartney by #GQ Editor @dylanjonesgq and incredible images taken from lockdown by the music icon's daughter @marymccartney 📸 LINK IN BIO for the full cover story where #TheBeatles star reflects on 60 years on the world stage, how four lads from Liverpool came together to change a great deal more than music, what it felt like to be blamed for the band's demise, how behind fame, adulation and wealth exists a normality he jealously protects and why the work of a lifetime is still far, far from finished ...
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“It was crazy, but I knew it was the only thing to do. But since I had to do that, we thought I was the guy who broke up The Beatles and sued his pals. And believe me, I almost believed it (…) As you can imagine, it was horrible and it made me live terrible moments. I was drinking way too much and taking too much of everything, ”he said before adding:“ I just started drinking. I didn't have time to have psychological issues so I was like, come on shit, I'm going to drink and sleep. But it affected me, it was a very depressing time. "
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In the interview, Paul McCartney also looks back on the cult group's last years, once again refuting rumors that it was war between him, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.
“What I realize today is that since we were a family, a gang, well a family, it argues. Families have arguments, some want to do this and others to do that… ”, explained Macca.
Paul McCartney is hoping that Peter Jackson's documentary The Beatles: Get Back , due out next year, will help set the record straight for the band's final years. Considered as a response to Let It Be , the depressing film released in 1970 that showed the band's disbandment, this new document, which will use previously unseen footage from the recording of the album that would become Let It Be , Get Back is expected to show that there was more laughter and collusion between the four Beatles than rivalry and resentment.
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