McCartney Times

Paul McCartney has commented on the views held by his late songwriting partner John Lennon and his widow Yoko Ono, saying he felt much of their beliefs in regards to peace activism at the time was false.

McCartney was reading excerpts from his recently published The Lyrics: 1956 To The Present for a new BBC Radio series. The book explores the backstories of songs he’s written across a nearly eight-decade-long career.

One of the songs McCartney spoke about was Too Many People from his 1971 LP Ram, written “a year or so” after the infamous Beatles break-up.

“This song was written [at a time] when John was firing missiles at me with his songs – and one or two of them were quite cruel,” he said. “I don’t know what he hoped to gain other than punching me in the face; the whole thing really annoyed me. I decided to turn my missiles on him too.”

“It was the 1970s equivalent of what might today [be] called a diss track. The idea of too many people preaching practices is definitely aimed at John telling everyone what they ought to do. I just got fed up with being told what to do, so I wrote this song.”

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