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Worst Band Feuds: No. 6
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Fightin' Words: "The only thing you done was yesterday/ And since you're gone you're just another day" ('How Do You Sleep?,' Lennon)
Lennon managed to puncture two of his former collaborators' songs with one shot on this bitter dis from 'Imagine.' Lennon's was responding to McCartney's own bitter pills on his solo releases, which featured a photo of a beetle getting screwed and the line "You took your lucky break and broke it in two." Lennon expressed regret for the feud before his death, and McCartney has grown wistful for his old mate in recent years. Still, Macca couldn't resist lobbying to have his name reversed with Lennon's on some credits. Yoko was not amused.
Judges' Decision: McCartney, by default
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Mike
The real winner is Billy Shears.
RIP Paul 1942-1966
RIP John 1940-1980
RIP George 1943-2001
SpacemanEddie
John got his revenge: His soul infiltrated Heather Mills' peg leg.
May 11 2010 at 4:12 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
karl
we should all be gald we had them ! what other music will still be relevant 40 years later , as for there tit for tat .........too very hurt egos trying to keep the other down . loved them both but paul seemed to escape better for wear and just continued making music .......... john ended up getting lead by the nose by yoko and completely lost his ability to produce the music he was capable of .......... too bad , together they were just hitting their prime . but it is funny to read between the lines of their songs , pretty ingenous on pauls part where john would had that spit in your face attitude
December 30 2009 at 9:51 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
jon Lebenns
the genius of the beatles was an uncomfortable melding of Lennon's "edge", McCartney's "simplicity" and Harrison's spiritual search, where each member willingly sang backup to each other's songs (and personalities for that matter). Perfect example..."A Day in the Life"
August 14 2009 at 11:09 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
divalove014
Aw i wish they wouldnt have fought. They were both so great...BLAME YOKO!
July 17 2009 at 12:59 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
TheSatyr
The real feud was between Paul and George. George had always felt that Paul screwed him over financially during the Beatles breakup and never really forgave Paul for it.
May 16 2009 at 6:32 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
TheSatyr
The feud was over before Lennon's untimely death. McCartney mentioned in a few interviews at the time that Lennon had called him one night a few months before his death and that he and Lennon ended the feud during that phone call. They both felt that neither of them would have been where they were without the other and that it was time to "make up" and move on. McCartney also said at the time that after that,he and Lennon talked on the phone nearly every week,and that he and Lennon were actually talking about trying to write music together again. It was apparently in the "just discussing the idea" phase when Lennon was tragically shot.
May 16 2009 at 6:25 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Delreta
As songwriters, kudos to both of them. As singers, i think the Beatles has been grossly and profoundly overated for years, go to youtube and listen to them on the Ed Sullivan show etc. Awful!!! gives you a headache.
March 30 2009 at 3:42 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Across The Universe195
sigh.. we love you both! why can't men ever play nice and get along!?!?!
blame Hillary Clinton and Yoko. Yoko for obvious reasons and Hillbilly cause everything's always her fault. terrorism? Hillary. Communism? Hillary.
Breakup of the gr8est band ever? HILLARY!!!!
Anne
Right on.
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Between the time the Beatles broke up and John Lennon's death in 1981, how many hits (both solo and with other groups) did John Lennon have compared to Paul McCartney? I'm sorry, but with the exception of the hypocrisy-fest that is 'Imagine' (A multi-millionaire in the 1970s telling people to imagine having no posessions?) Paul McCartney buried John Lennon during that time period. John Lennon was just ticked that he was living off royalties while Paul was making new music that was both actually relevant and selling commercially.
John Dunkelburg at 7:01AM on Sep 30th 2007
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