Great point. Only the Beatles get that, of course.

Which is why my philosophy is whatever I create is not for me, but for those of my grandchildren are great grandchildren I may never meet and they can, sort of "get to know me", through all my videos and whatnot. 🌱

HELL NO. My life was an embarassing mess of utter drunkenness and despair. I don't want to revisit any of it.

Wouldn’t it be nice if we all had the money to pay Peter Jackson to turn a dark moment of our lives into a bright and shiny party?

Not really

There were multiple cameras rolling. Most of that footage is just different camera angles and periods where nothing happened

@@haywoodjblome4768 There is a scene in the Peter Jackson film where Ringo farts. If there are other camera angles of that incident I can promise you that Beatles fans want to see it.

@@haywoodjblome4768 Sure, but different angles would have recorded different people's responses...people like to watch others react, not sure if you've heard of that phenomenon yet 😛

@@michaelterry1000 lol

Lots of fighting and sadness that didn't fit Paul or Pete's narrative. Doubtful you'll ever see it.

Exactly!

As Ringo said, Paul is the reason they put out so much music.

Not really. The Jackson Let It Be film shows all of them contributing. It was a band decision to make the film. It was George's idea to take it back to Apple studios rather than Twickenham. Apart from Magical Mystery Tour, the Beatles all agreed and decided to record after Brian's death. Paul never had to encourage them. Abbey Road was an agreed upon album and it was George who suggested meeting at his to demo some of the songs.

@@dannyvine3605 Much of that may be true(I'm not entirely out of the know on these things either) but I think Paul had the most desire out of the Beatles from about 67 on to keep churning out albums and whatnot. He was the most driven out of them all in terms of wanting more fame and success imo.

@@purple8289 I see your point, but all of the Beatles were driven and had a work ethic. Paul's drive was to keep the Beatles together when both John and George had decided they wanted to do their own work and churn out their own albums. Both wanted to have the success but on their own terms and without being a Beatle. That went against what Paul wanted and in the end it was an intolerable position.

Watch the movie The Final Cut with Robin Williams. Implanted chip at birth that records everything your eyes see. He goes back in the footage to find if he actually killed his friend when they were children. Deep stuff

"Let it be" as it were

@@bradyhamby8165 AAAhhh beat me to it.

Additionally, most of us haven't had the blame for breaking up The Beatles as part of a self-imposed weight to carry. Then add on to that, I've gotten the impression from many comments over the years that John and George got a pass... because they had died.

Yeah we hardcore Beatles fans have known for decades that Paul didn't break up the Beatles, but the casuals still think Paul releasing his solo album broke up the Beatles, and that myth still persists today unfortunately.

Yeah, he's had to carry the weight and a lot of the blame for the breakup for 50 years, so it's so nice in his last years he gets to have a sense that the verdict of history will be in the end actually much more balanced about the factors that led to them splitting.

@@dennisbenn2065 Paul did contribute to the break-up but then so did John and George. There were multiple factors in the break-up. Two of the most salient of them were the Beatles getting older and wanting to be know for other things, and getting involved in the business side.

Ringo said nothing would have gotten done without Paul he made them work and do studio time that the others didn't want to do.Ringo said he would just as soon work in his garden instead of studio work on The Great SGTPepper mess that really wasn't Beatles working together.that was Paul and Beatles as side men. That's from their mouths not an opinion of mine.

I know - it's astonishing, stranger than fiction.

Paul was 26. Amazing.

​@@loosiluGeorge was 25. Amazing

Really? "Oh, how do you sleep?"

@@joanka34 "Quite well, thank you"

@@joanka34 zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

@@joanka34 Ah, I see what you did there.

@@robertallan6373 Yes?

Paul is the reason the beatles made as much music as they did, even at the end. He had a powerful work ethic and drive. John would be coming in late strung out on Heroin, George was on the verge of leaving for pretty much the entirety of the final sessions, and Ringo was kinda caught in the middle of it. Without Paul pushing the band forward, they probably would never have made Let It Be or Abbey Road. Hell, even SGT Pepper was his idea. The reality is every group needs someone pushing the others along, keeping them moving forward. It's a shame the other Beatles gave him so much flack for it.

Man. Wenner is just the worst.

@@profile2047 hahahaha!!! Sounds like tin-hat talk.

@@jpetersgoyanks nah I’m with him, Jann Wenner was the worst. He sowed so much division between John and Paul. He’s not as responsible as people like Yoko or Klein, but he contributed so much to their deteriorating relationship. Wenner wanted to sell magazines, and he knew that an article where John shit talked Paul would sell like hot cakes, and he egged John on to make some really mean spirited comments. Read the Lennon Remembers article and you can see how much Wenner is pushing Lennon to shit talk Paul

@@TheJoyrunners hahahaha! Another one. I guess the internet is full of this kind of thought. For the record, no one is responsible for John and Paul except for John and Paul. You people sound like tin-foil hatters when you talk like this. It was all good in the end, they loved each other and they fought. So what? They are like family. Yoko is completely innocent, Jann Wenner is completely innocent and Klein is innocent of what you accused him of… even though he did lie about business stuff. Take off the hat and come back to reality where we are all responsible for our own actions.

@@jpetersgoyanks Sport, get your hand off it! So no man ever distanced himself from great mates because his wife pushed him to? Something he would never have done normally? Grow up, we are all influenced by others, good and bad, knowingly and unknowingly. Nope, Yoko was pure evil, jealous of the relationship Paul and John had. Of course now you are going to come back at me, that is the way of the loser, you just can't stand to be proven wrong, so lets see if you prove me right again!

Not the only one. One of my regrets is losing a few of those recordings from the 1980s of me and my brother and some friends doing Beatles tunes, but some survived.

The other three bought mansions near each other in the suburbs. Paul bought a smaller house in London that was a 5 minute walk from the studio. He would call them up and tell them to come to work. Ringo said if Paul hadn't done that, they just would have laid around the pool smoking pot.

@TheRealJukebox In 1980, John was being driven around Long Island, and it so happened that Paul's new single, "Coming Up" came on the radio. The story is that John exclaimed "fuck a pig, that's Paul!" he loved the song so much, it inspired him to go to the studio. He said [can't remember the name of the director dude] said, you know it's a great movie when it makes you want to make a movie. This song made me want to make music. John went to the studio to make a new album. Yoko separately told the producer, this is a double album, I haven't told John yet. That's how Double Fantasy was made.

@@loosilu Paul never called them to go to work as often as is made out! Ballard of John and Yoko was John getting Paul to record; the White Album were individual songs that all the Beatles wanted to record; Let it Be / Get Back was an agreed concept and it was Lindsay- Hogg who arranged the time to record due to filming schedules.

@@dannyvine3605 I guess Ringo was lying?

@@loosilu Interesting is it not that neither John, George, or George Martin mentioned about Paul calling them into work. Also, if you are taking Ringo's statement as being that Paul always phoned them and got them into the studio how do you account for the Ballard of John & Yoko? That was John calling Paul - it is well documented if you want to check.

HE was publicly blamed for it by John, and with the help of people like Jan Wenner, it stuck. I'm so happy that he got to see that turned around in his lifetime. It only took 50 years. If this film had been released after his death it would be tragic.

Don't forget Heavenly Creatures. Early masterpiece.

He also made other great films, he's a genuis

That front line had been together since George was 13.

And they couldn't even agree where to perform. Quite the stumbling block for starters.

I hear about it often.

Yeah it struck me how much them in the documentary behaved similarly to how they acted in AHDN. That's some great screenwriting I guess.

And he's been avoiding it all this time. For 50 years he's been told he was the asshole.

Totally feel the same way.

James Paul McCartney died in car crash on September 11 1966 and was replaced by William (Billy). This is the truth no matter what!

Please stop with this nonsense. We know you have been down the rabbit hole and fake UKposts videos, but don't bother us with it. If you believe that, you should not even be here watching Beatles stuff. It is just an insult to the other 3 and all the Beatle families to suggest they would have been a part of that. So please go away and chat with other people willing to believe anything.@@justiceforjamespaulmccartney

I was around, too. Lived the Legend ♥ 17 years old.

I was 11 years old when they first came to the U.S. I wouldn’t trade when I grew up with any other era. I feel privileged.

I was just thinking that the other day. All of history and everyone who ever existed, very few actually got to witness and hear their music. We existing from 1962 to now really are the privileged few.

I have been to two McCartney concerts, which is nothing, but I'm still amazed I was in the same space as one of the people who changed the world. It's like saying I went to hear Mozart play.

Paul talked John into not telling the press he (John) was leaving The Beatles. Then Paul told the press HE was leaving The Beatles, making it appear he was the one who wanted to leave. The only difference between Paul and John in their disputes is that John was open and straightforward as to how he felt. Paul was always thinking of his own image and how he would look and sound. I love Paul, but this idea that Paul was the driver and the energy etc. etc. is just FALSE.

@@suzanneobrien781 you have all your facts wrong. Allen Klein convinced John not to say anything because of a contract they were going to sign and Paul and the rest of the Beatles agreed to this because they thought John would change his mind. John didn’t change his mind and Paul decided to release his solo album with a press statement. In that statement, Paul never says the Beatles are done and only says their future is uncertain at the moment. John even said the same thing in an interview before Paul’s statement but the media didn’t pick up on it the same way. Please do some research

I like Paul a lot, but "the greatest artist humankind has ever seen?" It's a bit much.

@@fredpearson5204 thanks for coming here today Fred.

@@fredpearson5204 I think thats a fair opinion, who else would it be. Either way hes in the conversation

yes, johann sebastian bach can be rotten in hell and eat his liver in envy of Paul. Guy, when you trespass the fine line of absurde your comment become so funny

@@unclealbert4634, it's not a fair opinion, but it is an opinion. It's pointless to rank people of almost any endeavor throughout history, mainly because there is almost no objective way to do that everyone can agree on. For artists, it's especially problematic because art is a matter of personal taste, hardly quantifiable. Having said that, Paul McCartney is awesome--I like him a lot, but is he is REALLY the greatest humankind has ever seen? This is the ranting of a fan-boy, not a serious analysis. Why can't we just leave it at great and be happy with that? If they were alive today, countless artists including Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Picasso, et al, would be laughing at the stupidity of this hyperbole.

But when they asked what do we do if George doesn't come back ? and John ( I think ) just comes out with Get Eric Clapton after George had been banging on about him I nearly spurted my coffee . Hilarious .

@@stuartharrison165 We'll sell his guitars and get Clapton, something like that.

"And then there were two." It was after George left, and John didn't show up that morning. He thought John had quit. He's devastated. It's hard to watch. Turned out John had slept in because he was up late doing smack with his new smack buddy.

George complains about something through the who thing. If not for John's comedy...it's really not worth sitting through.

@@phillipbradford6976 John's comedy is great, but I enjoyed the whole thing immensely--got out my guitar and played along with the Beatles as they jammed. And both Paul and George were on a roll creatively, Paul especially: just gushing original music.

@@lawsonj39 I agree. But I left my guitars on their stands to watch it. LoL The original documentary was nothing but a total bummer. I had it on VHS tape and watched it a few times. Peter Jackson's version is much more balanced in every way, even if he has reduced it down to two hours. This short interview segment shows how even creative geniuses like McCartney can be filled with self-doubt and guilt. George H. attitude throughout the doc was something he often exhibited, always feeling like he's playing second fiddle to the creative powerhouse team of Lennon and McCartney. Considering the pressure cooker live event they were working up to, I'm surprised the whole thing didn't implode within three days. Paul essentially rescued the entire project. Long live The Beatles!

Watch it! Some parts may be boring to you, but seeing the genesis of some songs from Let it be and Abbey Road is magical.

@@phillipbradford6976 What are you talking about? It's amazing for the music, the development of songs, the kinds of collaboration, the behind the scenes in the creation, and so on. I guess you're not a musician or into music then

I had the exact same early childhood feeling of them, wild

I was honored and happy to be "just" 17 when they hit America!!! I lived and breathed The Beatles. I'm 76 and I get very melancholy listening to them 💕 I saw them live in Las Vegas 1964 and I still have the ticket stub!!! 😘

With Lennon and Klein in 1969 all is caos its imposible everybody knows Lennon destroy The Beatles because he dont aceptar Paul and George are better in the end of the sixties really Lennon is Jealous guy

It was JOHN'S band to break up when all is said and done.

@@stephenscanlon9763 The Beatles is not John’s band. The Quarrymen was John’s band but the two bands are very different

I always knew John had broken it up, cuz he said so back when he was alive. I am old enough for that. But yeah, I watched this so called "bossy paul" and I'm like. Dude, that's me every Tuesday morning in our meetings when I'm practically begging people to send me the data I need for my report. I'm more shocked at how normal Paul McCartney actually is.

Yeah, they should've just taken a break, each of them doing an album to get out the songs that wouldn't have fit inside the band, and come back to do a record together. It was Klein who played a huge part in their split.

Don't forget the 5th Beatle, Billy Shepherd.

Rubbish. That footage had been in existance for decades. Is Someone actually telling me for one second that not one person viewed that film and therefore informed Paul , the most privelidged man on the planet that is wasn't 'All bad after all' which goes against the Let It Be edit.

Macca drove everything starting with revolver.

@@mumbles215 he drove things earlier as well but it’s just that starting with Revolver, he drove it more than before. Engineers from the beginning and people who knew them early on say that Paul led sessions and live gigs from the beginning

All three others came to realise that Klein was a crook but they never thanked Paul for stopping Klein.

@@mumbles215 Macca drove Wings, not the Beatles. You can hear the difference Night and day. Beatles were Lennon’s baby even as he relinquished some duties to Paul. Macca didn’t drive The White Album at all… and he didn’t write the best songs on most albums either. He did a lot of great work though as did all the Beatles.

Yep. I don’t understand people who think the music industry is about being “nice” little artists who let everyone take advantage of them. By the time Klein came into the picture, Paul was a 26-year old legend who loved what he did (still does) but didn’t want to be bullied by an often VERY corrupt industry (ask the surviving members of Badfinger how “nice” the industry can be). Paul had every right to fight for his band’s money, legacy and future. The other three went against him and treated him like garbage-even though two of the four Beatles wanted out since ‘66 and were happy that the dream finally ended, they still let Paul take the public blame and encouraged it. It was extremely petty and immature. Although Ringo came around early on, John and George were only too happy to ride the “Paul sucks” train until they died. Meanwhile Paul-on his OWN-has brought positivity and joy to millions of people for the last 50+ years. If I can forgive John for being a terrible father and a jealous liar, and if I can forgive George for being a whiny negative petty serial cheater, I’m sure they can forgive Paul for **checks notes** being bossy after Brian died because John became an indifferent ineffective leader during the band’s most vulnerable period. Whatever George’s personal woes were with Paul, Paul paid for it all in abundance for decades while George got elevated to sainthood with Paul never saying even ONE shitty thing about George EVER!

James Paul McCartney died in car crash on September 11 1966 and was replaced by William (Billy). This is the truth no matter what!

Did you listen to the podcast in its entirety? Paul called him “Dan” and “Dah-nah” (with a very deep British ”ah”), and I think he started saying “Day…” once but stopped it short 😂

John could lead, John could write wonderful songs, probably better than Paul, but he wasn't as persistent and constant as Paul. Personal issues, drugs, and his relationship with Yoko Ono got in the way.

Billy, indeed.

James Paul McCartney died in car crash on September 11 1966 and was replaced by William (Billy). This is the truth no matter what!