Headline 50 years ago that heralded the end of The Beatles

“Paul is quitting The Beatles” screamed the headlines in the Daily Mirror.

In a press statement sent out to promote his new solo album, ‘McCartney’, Paul was asked: “Is your break with the Beatles temporary or permanent, due to personal differences or musical one?”

“Personal differences, business differences, musical differences, but most of all because I have better time with my family. Temporary or permanent? I don’t really know.”

“Do you foresee a time when Lennon-McCartney becomes an active songwriting partnership again?”

“No.”

The Daily Mirror interpreted Paul McCartney’s answers to mean that The Beatles as a cohesive working unit were beyond redemption.

It’s often said that the killing of Meredith Hunter at a Rolling Stones concert held in Altamont in 1969 was the end of the sixties but for many Beatles fans the world over the Daily Mirror headline was the real death knell of the decade.

Source: thestar.co.uk

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