Paul McCartney, 83, Admits Pain of Leaving The Beatles
More than five decades after The Beatles broke up, Paul McCartney is finally sharing how it really felt to walk away from the band that changed music and his life forever.
The Beatles — made up of McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr — broke up in 1970 due to a combination of factors, including growing creative differences, the death of their manager Brian Epstein and a major dispute over their new manager, Allen Klein. McCartney publicly announced his departure in April 1970, and Lennon had privately told the others he was leaving in September 1969. The band was officially and legally separated by December 1974.
The famous English rock band began with McCartney and Lennon in 1956, then Harrison joined in 1957 and Stu Sutcliffe and Pete Best later on. In 1960, they adopted their name, The Beatles. A year later, Sutcliffe left the group, and by 1962, the band signed a recording contract and replaced Best with Starr. In their decade of taking over the music industry, they released 12 studio albums and multiple tours. By 1964, they were international stars who reached unprecedented levels of success.
On Nov. 4, McCartney will release his new memoir, Wings: The Story of a Band, which will tell the story of the legendary rock group from their humble beginnings to their final days from his point of view.
On Thursday, Vulture shared a part of the memoir, specifically the section where rumors were swirling around that McCartney had passed away, and the singer's reaction to the fake news.
In 1969, a conspiracy theory went around claiming that "Paul was dead" and he was replaced by a lookalike when the singer reportedly died in a car accident in 1966. The theory gained traction in September of that year when college students published articles with "clues" supposedly found in Beatles records, but the claims were debunked by TheNew York Times.
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