The White Album was the tension album. We were all in the midst of the psychedelic thing, or just coming out of it. In any case, it was weird. Never before has we recorded with beds in the studio and people visiting for hours on end; business meetings and all that. There was a lot […]

By the time we made “Abbey Road”, John and I were openly critical of each other’s music, and I felt John wasn’t much interested in performing anything he hadn’t written himself.

I’m really glad that most of the songs dealt with love, peace, understanding. There’s hardly any one of them that says: “Go on, kids, tell them all to sod off. Leave your parents.” It’s all very “All you need is love” or John’s “Give peace a chance.” There was a good spirit behind it all, […]

We did it (the side two medley-“Abbey Road”) this way because both John and I had a number of songs which were great as they were but which we’d never finished.

That became a very big bond between John and me, because he lost his mum early on, too. We both had this emotional turmoil which we had to deal with and, being teenagers, we had to deal with it very quickly. We both understood that something had happened that you couldn’t talk about – but […]