McCartney Times

In a recent interview with David Remnick from the New Yorker, former Beatles frontman, Paul McCartney made the following comment: “I’m not sure I should say it, but they’re a blues cover band, that’s sort of what the Stones are. I think our net was cast a bit wider than theirs.” This statement follows a decades-long feud that has been given new fuel. Was the relationship between these two bands always rooted in competition? Or was this an imagined conflict forced into existence by the media and polarized fans?

The bands first met April 14, 1963, following the Stones’ show in Richmond at the Crawdaddy Club, at which point the Stones were actually a blues cover band. It was this meeting that motivated Beatles guitarist George Harrison to personally recommend the Rolling Stones to Decca Records despite the label having passed on the Beatles.

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Source: The feud between the Beatles and the Rolling Stones: Is it Real? – The Chronicle