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, […]
Beatles Quotes
We laid down a few tracks, but nobody was really into it at all. It was just such a very, very dreadful feeling being there in Twickenham Studios at eight o’clock in the morning with some old geezer pointing a camera up your nose expecting you to make good music with colored lights flashing on […]
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.
The thing is, in America, it just seemed ridiculous – I mean, the idea of having a hit record over there. It was just something you could never do.
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 […]
The Beatles are not merely awful, I would consider it sacrilegious to say anything less than Godawful.
We were driving the equipment to its limit.
I’m convinced the Beatles are partly responsible for the fall of Communism.
To paraphrase the Thing, the tragic, orange-skinned, rock-like member of a different and altogether more interesting ’60s quartet, the Fantastic Four: Wotta revolting development this is! After watering their musical stock with abysmal solo album after abysmal solo album, weren’t we finally done with these guys? Despite respectful nods – such as the dutiful placement […]
There’s a scene where Paul and I are having an argument… and we’re trying to cover it up. Then the next scene I’m not there, and Yoko’s just screaming, doing her screeching number. Well, that’s where I’d left, and I went home and wrote ‘Wah-Wah’. It’d given me a wah-wah, like I had such a […]
