McCartney Times

We like to believe The Beatles were constantly butting heads. While they were certainly no strangers to disagreement, journalists and historians have occasionally amped up the toxicity between John Lennon and Paul McCartney. After all, nothing sells a newspaper like a great dollop of disdain. ‘Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da’ from The White Album is the perfect example. Recorded at a time when tensions were running high, it’s generally held that Lennon hated this slice of early British ska. According to McCartney, however, Lennon was actually instrumental in its creation.Written on Paul’s return from India in 1968, ‘Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da’ was inspired by the favourite phrase of his Nigerian friend Jimmy Anonmuogharan Scott Emuakpor. “I had a friend called Jimmy Scott who was a Nigerian conga player, who I used to meet in the clubs in London,” Paul recalls in Anthology. “He had a few expressions, one of which was, ‘Ob la di ob la da, life goes on, bra’. I used to love this expression… He sounded like a philosopher to me. He was a great guy anyway and I said to him, ‘I really like that expression and I’m thinking of using it,’ and I sent him a cheque in recognition of that fact later because even though I had written the whole song and he didn’t help me, it was his expression.”The story goes that Lennon, who was by this point addicted to heroin, loathed ‘Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da’, going so far as to describe the song as an example of “Paul’s granny shit”.

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