McCartney Times

There’s a fallacy circulating throughout popular culture as it pertains to music since the 1960s, and that is you either are on The Beatles side or The Rolling Stones side. This false narrative of mutual exclusion, while harmless, had been used by the media as a big talking point surrounding the question of whether The Beatles and The Rolling Stones really hated each other.

When it comes down to it, they never actually hated one other, although they were better friends when they first started out. They had shared plenty of enjoyable moments with one another. George Harrison was the catalyst in getting The Rolling Stones their record deal, Lennon became good friends with Keith Richards and enjoyed a riotous time or two, even performing with him and Eric Clapton as Dirty Mac for the Stones’ famous Rock and Roll Circus TV special.

As the sharp-tongued leader of The Beatles, John Lennon, however, wouldn’t stay sweet forever. The ‘Help!’ singer once divulged in a Rolling Stone interview in 1970, he seemed to resent Mick Jagger, although, by the time The Beatles had broken up, none of the members in each band really saw much of each other anymore.

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