Paul McCartney: John Lennon only ever complimented one of my Beatles songs
Paul McCartney and John Lennon were such bitter rivals during their tenure in The Beatles that McCartney claims Lennon only ever complimented him one time. “Once. Once John gave me a compliment,” McCartney, 76, recalled on “60 Minutes” in a segment airing Sunday. “It was only once the whole time.”
“It was ‘Here, There and Everywhere,'” the Wings singer revealed. “John says just as it finishes, ‘That’s a really good song, lad. I love that song.’ And I’m like, ‘Yes! He likes it!’ ” McCartney and Lennon were famously competitive, which gave the late “Imagine” singer’s kind words even more weight.
“I’ve remembered it to this day. It’s pathetic, really.” “We were competitive … not openly,” he added. “But we later admitted [we were]. He’d have written ‘Strawberry Fields,’ I’d write ‘Penny Lane.’ He remembered his old area in Liverpool, so I’ll remember mine.”
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