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Paul McCartney Admits The Beatles Felt ‘Threatened’ By Yoko Ono

“For me, you know, I’m a creative genius”, he told the chat show host. I played it when I was cooking, and it was like, ‘This is good. “There’s some really innovative stuff.’ When the word came from his people, through my people [laughs], I thought, ‘Let’s give it a go'”.

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“It was only when I got this song (All Day), the Rihanna record (FourFiveSeconds) and Only One, the three tracks we did, that I went, “I get it”. “And there was a picture on the wall that I’d been looking at for days – Picasso, ‘The Old Guitarist.’ The guy held the guitar like this [strikes the pose from the painting], and a lightbulb went off in my head: ‘What chord is that?’ It looked like it was two strings”. He said: “I listen to it for, you could call it, education”.

Now, more than a year since those releases, McCartney reflected on the partnership in an interview with Rolling Stone. I’ve seen Drake live.

Max Vadukul for Rolling StoneRingo Starr recently told Closer Weekly that he’d tour with his Beatles band mate Paul McCartney “tomorrow” if they could coordinate schedules, but in a new Rolling Stone interview, McCartney doesn’t seem so keen on the idea.

West went on to say he knows “you’re not supposed to say that about yourself”, but given his track record for making insane, outlandish, stream-of-consciousness statements, nobody was surprised by the remark. He’s taken my little whistle-y thing.’ It returned to me as an urban hip-hop riff. “Kanye was just collecting things”, he said. We all see each other socially, go to parties. “I love that record”.

“That’s the question: Is it worthwhile?”

“But if it is not binding, I am not embarrassed, we can ignore (age), this is what I do”, said the rock icon. ‘She was sitting on the amps while we were recording. But it was actually a chronicle of our dialogue. ‘I think I left it in my suitcase.’ John goes, ‘Ah, soft ass.’ ‘Soft ass?

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McCartney is now on his One on One world tour, which will end in Indio, California, on October 15.

Threat Yoko regularly attended Beatles recording sessions after getting together with John Lennon