Paul McCartney Responds To Accusations Of Erasing John Lennon's Legacy
In a recent appearance, Paul McCartney addressed the allegations of whether he tried to erase John Lennon’s legacy.
Reflecting on the distortions and the need to set the record straight, the musician said:
“So, I think with all these distortions that were beginning to happen, there’s kind of a sort of revisionism that was starting, I sensed. And I thought, well, look, I don’t want to kind of put John down at all. I mean, I’m his biggest fan. I’m the last person to do that because I really feel very privileged and loved every second that we had together.”
He then explained his perspective on their songwriting partnership:
“I mean, let’s face it, to be McCartney in the Lennon-McCartney songwriter partnership was fantastic, but it was a question of me thinking, ‘Well, I better stick it down now before the memory goes completely,’ which is going fast; even as we speak, it’s ebbing away.”
Sharing his side of the story, Paul continued:
“And I better get with someone I know and trust, like Barry Miles, who wrote the book, to actually just put forward my side of things. Because the kind of thing that started to happen was… George Martin wrote a book called ‘The Summer of Love,’ and he asked me to proofread it just to see if his memory was the same as mine, and he got to a song called ‘Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds.’
Source: Bihter Sevinc/rockcelebrities.net
