But no one really heard him.The song was conceived as a follow-up to the success of Hopkin's first single, produced by McCartney, titled " Those Were the Days", which was highlighted on her debut album Postcard, one of the first records issued by the newly founded Apple Records. “ has been exploded, partly by what we have done, and partly by other people,” he told the magazine. You couldn’t blame people for believing the Fab Four might just keep rolling.īut the album contained one hell of a clue: Its final track was called “The End.” And McCartney gave Life reason to take it literally. Before its run ended, the final Beatles studio album would spend 11 weeks on top of the album charts. And that was the story reporters took away from Scotland.Īs for The Beatles, all might have seemed well to the press. “They should worry about themselves instead of worrying whether I am dead or not,” he said. In so many words, he told them to get a life. McCartney closed the interview by chastising the conspiracy theorists. But the Beatle thing is over.” McCartney spoke of the Beatles’ fall due to their actions and those of ‘others’ Paul McCartney in the late Beatles years | ullstein bild via Getty Images “We make good music and we want to go on making good music. “I would rather do what I began by doing, which is making music,” he said. While reporters were likely scrutinizing his face for identifiable marks, McCartney dropped some big news. I would rather be a little less famous these days.” McCartney didn’t stop there. “I was switched on for ten years and I never switched off,” he said. After rejecting the “Paul is dead” theory as “bloody stupid,” McCartney told Life Magazine he was avoiding the spotlight for a reason. In short, the last thing he needed was reporters sniffing around his farm in Scotland looking for comment. “I was depressed at the time,” he told the BBC in 2016. Wondering what he’d do next after splitting from his band of lifelong friends, he took to sulking and drinking. The autumn of ’69 was not a happy time for McCartney. RELATED: John Lennon Thought the Beatles’ ‘Revolution’ Got Turned ‘Into a Piece of Ice Cream’ Paul McCartney said ‘the Beatle thing is over’ in a ’69 interview that didn’t quite register Three Beatles pose during the band’s last photo shoot, 1969. But neither press nor public got the message. When reporters tracked him down to confirm he was alive, McCartney said in so many words The Beatles were done. Indeed, when the “ Paul is dead” conspiracy theory caught on in October ’69, McCartney had already withdrawn to his farm in Scotland. And McCartney acknowledged the band had “known it for months.” “I think a few people thought it was some weird move of me to get publicity, but it was really to avoid having to do the press,” he said in Beatles Anthology. McCartney denied trying to pull off a publicity coup for his record with the timing of the announcement. The Daily Mirror blasted out the signature headline on April 9: “PAUL IS QUITTING THE BEATLES,” it read, taking up half of the paper’s front cover. In a question-and-answer insert included with reviewer copies, McCartney revealed that the Fab Four had parted ways. And that news arrived just ahead of the first solo album by Paul McCartney. If you were a fan of The Beatles, news of the band’s breakup hit hard in April 1970.
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