“This
was my band, this was my job, this was my life, so I wanted it to
continue,” McCartney says in upcoming BBC Radio 4 interview.
Paul
McCartney discusses the breakup of the Beatles and says John Lennon
“instigated” the band’s split in an upcoming interview with BBC Radio 4.
Over
50 years after the Beatles’ disbanded, McCartney is still often cited
as the root for their breakup because he revealed in an April 1970
“self-interview” that he was on a “break” from the Beatles. (“Do you
foresee a time when Lennon-McCartney becomes an active songwriting
partnership again?” PAUL: “No,” the press release stated.)
However,
speaking to BBC Radio 4’s John Wilson (via the Guardian), McCartney
comes clean about the breakup, saying that the band had already split
prior to his announcement. “I didn’t instigate the split. That was our
Johnny,” McCartney says. “I am not the person who instigated the split.
Oh no, no, no. John walked into a room one day and said I am leaving the
Beatles. Is that instigating the split, or not?”
The
Beatles kept the breakup quiet so their then-manager Allen Klein — who
McCartney refused to align with — had to tie up loose ends
business-wise. “So for a few months we had to pretend,” McCartney told
Wilson. “It was weird because we all knew it was the end of the Beatles
but we couldn’t just walk away.”
McCartney
added, “I had to fight and the only way I could fight was in suing the
other Beatles, because they were going with Klein. And they thanked me
for it years later. But I didn’t instigate the split. That was our
Johnny coming in one day and saying ‘I’m leaving the group.’”
The
bassist also claims that he preferred the band had stayed together as
they were still creating “pretty good stuff.” “This was my band, this
was my job, this was my life, so I wanted it to continue,” McCartney
says in the BBC Radio 4 interview, ahead of the Get Back docuseries that
will likely put the Beatles’ final years back under the microscope.
Rolling
Stone’s 2009 cover story on “Why the Beatles Broke Up” digs further
into the details of the split, and while all members played a role in
the band’s demise, it was ultimately Lennon who ended the Beatles.
“I
started the band, I disbanded it. It’s as simple as that,” Lennon once
said, as noted in the cover story. McCartney added at the time of the
split, “Ringo left first, then George, then John. I was the last to
leave! It wasn’t me!”
Paul's full interview will be heard on the new BBC Radio 4 series This Cultural Life, which will be broadcast on 23 October
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