Case in point: In “Getting Better,” Lennon countered McCartney’s “It’s getting better all the time” line with “It couldn’t get no worse.” Paul McCartney (right) breaks down The Beatles’ songbook to producer Rick Rubin in “McCartney 3, 2, 1.” HULU “I loved the way he would always add, like, a little cynicism to the songs,” he says of the manner in which Lennon balanced his sunnier disposition. But I think he might have said, ‘Well, you do it,’ ” says McCartney of Starr, who then temporarily left the group for a couple weeks.īut of course, it was John Lennon who would prove to be “the perfect foil” for McCartney. Sometimes their ambitions would even push them to trade places - and clash egos - like when McCartney took over for Ringo Starr on drums on “Back in the U.S.S.R.” “I was showing Ringo what I thought the drumming should be.
We were just discovering all these little things.” The Beatles (from left: Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon and George Harrison) in 1963. Those accidents, though, were all part of the studio experimentation that made The Beatles pop pioneers: “It was like being professors in a laboratory. “We all knew we had the freedom to goof around,” says McCartney, later adding that “we’d leave accidents a lot of the time,” such as wrong notes and vocal flubs. Bettmann Archiveīut The Beatles were all over the place in making their music.
“It’s not all over the paper.” Paul McCartney (left) says that John Lennon was “the perfect foil” in The Beatles. “What it means that, it’s in here,” he says, pointing to his head. On top of that, McCartney couldn’t read or write music - at least when it comes to traditional notation. “We realized, you know, we were writing songs that were memorable not ’cause we wanted them to be memorable, because we had to remember them. “There was no recording devices, so you had to remember them,” says McCartney of their song ideas.
Bettmann Archiveīut as McCartney goes inside The Beatles’ playbook, it’s clear that there was no method to crafting titanic tunes, and in fact, they were sometimes born in the most inopportune moments. Pepper,’ ” says McCartney, adding that playing “alter egos of ourselves” - in an Edwardian-era military band - took the pressure off of The Beatles at a time when expectations were sky-high: “This was just some other band.” The Beatles (from left, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, John Lennon and George Harrison), circa 1965. “We heard ‘Pet Sounds,’ and, ‘All right, we’ve got to do something better than that.’ So we did ‘Sgt. McCartney also shares that the Beach Boys’ 1966 album “Pet Sounds” inspired The Beatles to make their own masterpiece in “Sgt. Paul McCartney (right) spills Beatles secrets to über-producer Rick Rubin in a new docuseries. The story behind that album title is just one of the secrets about the Fab Four that McCartney, 79, spills to legendary producer Rick Rubin over the course of the six-part docuseries that reveals how The Beatles really worked it out - and made the magic happen. Pepper.’ … So we had a laugh about that, but then the more I thought about it, ‘Sgt. And he said, ‘Could you pass the salt and pepper?’ ” says Paul McCartney in the new docuseries “McCartney 3, 2, 1,” which premieres on Hulu Friday. “I was on a plane with our roadie, and we were eating. “Salt and Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” doesn’t have the same ring to it.īut if it weren’t for a moment of confusion about condiments, the 1967 Beatles classic - one of the greatest albums in rock history - would have never become “Sgt. Paul McCartney returns to stage for John Lennon ‘duet’ after 2-year hiatus Spring into June with some of these celebrity birthdays Paul McCartney’s Jubilee tribute to Queen: ‘Congrats ma’am!’ on ’70 beautiful years’ Celebrating Paul McCartney’s greatest moments
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