" was me saying basically, 'You've made this break, so good luck with it.' But it was pretty mild.It was all a bit weird and a bit nasty, and I was basically saying, 'Let's be sensible. On his second solo disc, 1971's Ram, he included a jab at Lennon on the opener, "Too Many People," scoffing at the ex-Teddy Boy's exhortations for world peace chastising his bandmate for taking "his lucky break" and breaking it in two. "It was the 1970s equivalent of what we might today call a 'diss track.' Songs like this, where you're calling someone out on their behavior, are quite commonplace now, but back then it was a fairly new 'genre.'" "I decided to turn my missiles on him too, but I'm not really that kind of writer, so it was quite veiled," he says. McCartney's response to Lennon's vitriolic outbursts was, characteristically, more subtle. 'It's only me.' Oh, alright, you've just gone and blustered and that was somebody else, was it It was his shield talking." We'd have an argument about something and he'd say something particularly caustic then I'd be a bit wounded, and he'd pull down his glasses and peer at me and say, 'It's only me, Paul.' That was John. "John always had a lot of that bluster, though. "He'd say, 'My dad left home when I was 3, and my mother got run over and killed by an off-duty policeman outside the house, and my Uncle George died. In retrospect, he blames Lennon's combative nature on a string of devastating losses early in life. So, I'm having to read all this stuff, and on the one hand I'm thinking, 'Oh f- off, you f-ing idiot,' but on the other hand I'm thinking, 'Why would you say that? Are you annoyed at me or are you jealous or what?' And thinking back 50 years later, I still wonder how he must have felt." The Beatles were crap.' Also, 'I don't believe in The Beatles, I don't believe in Jesus, I don't believe in God.' Those were quite hurtful barbs to be flinging around and I was the person they were being flung at, and it hurt. "John would say things like, 'It was rubbish. The whole thing really annoyed me," he recalled in Lyrics. I don't know what he hoped to gain, other than punching me in the face. "John was firing missiles at me with his songs, and one or two of them were quite cruel. He fired shot after shot at McCartney for his alleged bossiness in the studio, apparent disrespect of his new wife Yoko Ono, and supposedly unadventurous solo debut, 1970's McCartney. Shortly after the album hit shelves, Lennon sat down with Rolling Stone editor-in-chief Jann Wenner to give readers their first look at the beloved band's dirtiest laundry. The centerpiece of the record is the track "God" which ends with the climactic pronouncement "I don't believe in Beatles / I just believe in me" - a sentiment that bordered on blasphemy at the dawn of the '70s. Fresh off months of psychologically excruciating primal scream therapy, the album lay bare the psychological wounds that had been left to fester during the final days of the Beatles. That same month, an embittered and emotionally raw Lennon released his first full-scale solo statement, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band. Legal proceedings to dissolve the Beatles' partnership had begun almost exactly a decade earlier on Dec. Maybe because we grew up in Liverpool, where it was always good to get in the first punch of a fight." Thankfully, he was able to make peace with Lennon before his tragic murder on Dec. "When we broke up and everyone was now flailing around, John turned nasty," McCartney, 79, writes. Now, in his new book Lyrics: 1956 to the Present, Sir Paul McCartney is opening up about that troubled time in his relationship with John Lennon, his friend and musical soulmate.
Though they'd quietly agreed to go their separate ways the prior fall, it wasn't until the news went public that April that the mudslinging truly began. This was especially true in the aftermath of their split in the spring of 1970. But like all families, they could fight with the best of 'em. The Beatles, as they were quick to point out, in many ways resembled a family.
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