Paul McCartney Admitted 1 Song Was a 'Little Dig' at John Lennon and Yoko Ono
Paul McCartney and John Lennon wrote songs about each other in the 1970s. Here's why McCartney felt irritated enough to write about Lennon.
After The Beatles broke up, Paul McCartney and John Lennon spent the next several years at each others’ throats. McCartney sued The Beatles because of their manager, Allen Klein, and Lennon felt a great deal of resentment over the way his former bandmates treated Yoko Ono. McCartney admitted he wrote a song about Lennon and Ono. While it wasn’t as blatant as Lennon’s eventual response, Lennon could tell the song was about him.
Relations between McCartney and Lennon had so degraded by the 1970s that they began expressing their frustrations through song. McCartney said Lennon’s political preaching began to grate on his nerves. “I was looking at my second solo album, Ram, the other day and I remember there was one tiny little reference to John in the whole thing,” McCartney told Playboy in 1984 (per Beatles Interviews). “He’d been doing a lot of preaching, and it got up my nose a little bit.”
Source: cheatsheet.com/Emma McKee
