In 1980, John Lennon said he wasn’t interested in what the other Beatles were doing but despite his words, he called a Paul McCartney song “a good piece of work.”
During a 1980 interview from the book All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, John discussed his former bandmates. “I don’t follow what they do now,” he admitted. “Somebody asked me what I thought of Paul’s last album and I made some remark like I thought he was depressed and sad. But then I realized I hadn’t listened to the whole damn thing.” The album in question was McCartney II, Paul’s venture into electronic music.
“I heard one track — the hit, ‘Coming Up,’ which I thought was a good piece of work,” John continued. “Then I heard something else that sounded like he was depressed. But I don’t follow their work.”
John went on to discuss several of his classic rock contemporaries. “I don’t follow Wings, you know,” he said. “I don’t give a s*** what Wings are doing, or what George’s new album is doing or what Ringo is doing. I’m not interested, no more than I am in what Elton John or Bob Dylan is doing.
“It’s not callousness,” John opined. “It’s just that I’m too busy living my own life to be following what other people are doing, whether they’re Beatles or guys I went to college with or people I had intense relationships with before I met The Beatles.”
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