From: slider@atashram.com

Paul McCartney spoke out about the tension between him and John Lennon
towards the end of the band’s reign, shortly before the latter quit the group, in a new interview with Howard Stern. The Beatles legend opened up
about how the relationships within the band are laid bare in Peter
Jackson’s new documentary in the SiriusXM appearance. For the new film, Jackson is drawing on hours and hours of previously unseen footage of The Beatles.

“[He] has gone ahold of about 54 hours of film footage,” McCartney explained. “I’ll tell you, Howard, it’s great. I’m not bull****ting.

https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/music/1269697/Paul-McCartney-John-Lennon-The-Beatles-documentary-Get-Back

“You see this kind of thing, this relationship between me and John and
George [Harrison],” he continued. “You’ll get it.”

The footage is from the Let It Be sessions in 1969, when tensions were
famously running high within the group.

The Let It Be documentary, which was released in 1970 and directed by
Michael Lindsay-Hogg, previously gave Beatles fans an insight behind the
closed doors of rehearsals and studio sessions on their final album.

While the Let It Be movie didn’t focus too much on the crumbling bonds
within the band, it gave glimpses of the strain between them while making
the album which preceded the break-up.

But McCartney says the new documentary shows a different side to things,
even surprising him with the perspective on his friendship with Lennon.

“I kind of bought into this whole idea that me and John were rivals and didn’t like each other and stuff,” he admitted. ‘But you see the film and it’s like, ‘Thank God, it’s not true.’

“We were obviously having fun together,” he told Stern. “You can see we respect each other and we’re making music together, and it’s a joy to see it unfold.”

McCartney revealed he expected Jackson’s documentary to read as a “prelude to the band breaking up”.

But when he met with the director in late 2017 and asked how the film was looking, Jackson said: “That’s what I thought. But the more I look at it, it’s great.

“You look like friends and you look like you’re having a ball.”

The Beatles: Get Back was due to be released in cinemas in September but
may be affected by the coronavirus crisis.

“Nobody knows when anything is coming out right now,” The Beatles star explained. “But it will come out. Disney are going to release it.”

Lennon shocked the rest of The Beatles when he suddenly announced he was leaving the group at a meeting in 1969.

However, he was urged by management not to reveal the decision publicly
and so kept his departure from fans.

The following year, however, McCartney announced the news and launched his
own solo career.

Lennon subsequently said he should’ve used the band’s split to promote his solo material as McCartney had.

The pair feuded privately and publicly after the break-up, with McCartney
later saying they had “weaponised” songs against each other, writing jibes into their lyrics.

But they made up in the years which followed, fixing their friendship.

By the time Lennon was shot and killed in 1980 their relationship was
mended.

### - hehe things like paul singing: so what 'it's just another day' after
john left, and john retorting back with: 'all you did was yesterday, and
now you're just another day' (haha: poke!)

something i once relayed to jeremy in a conversation re john perhaps being
more of the genuine 'Artist' than paul? only he wouldn't accept it at all
and started attacking me instead lol (his routine normal reaction to
anything he doesn't like haha...)

but they did indeed have that funny little spat via their lyrics to songs,
paul later writing a magnificent piece that maybe even reveals what he
really later felt after the heat between them had died down

i likes to think so anyway...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iPaRZT7XSc

"how did two rights make a wrong"

nice song albeit kinda sad...

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