All The Beatles are classic rock gods, but some are more famous than others. Paul said John is more posthumously famous than George. Paul discussed why this might be the case and his explanation had nothing to do with their artistic outputs.
During a 2020 interview with The New York Times, a reporter noted that people tend to ask Paul more about John than George. “John is probably the one in the group you would remember, but the circumstances of his death were particularly harrowing,” he said. “When you die horrifically, you’re remembered more.
“But I like your point, which is: What about George? I often think of George because he was my little buddy. I was thinking the other day of my hitchhiking bursts. This was before The Beatles. I suddenly was keen on hitchhiking, so I sold this idea to George and then John.”
The book All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono features an interview from 1980. In it, John was upfront about his feelings toward his former bandmates. John opined that he and Paul could have created The Beatles without help from George or Ringo Starr. He went on to say his comment did not detract from George and Ringo as artists.
John had plenty of praise for both singers. He said Ringo was a talented drummer and a talented actor. He also said George showed off his songwriting prowess with the psychedelic piece “Within You Without You” from Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.
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