Paul McCartney Calls Out The Beatles 'Ripoffs'
Paul McCartney discussed bands ripping off The Beatles during the Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band era in a new website Q&A. Paul McCartney ‘Slept In Bed’ With The Beatles Icon.
PaulMcCartney.com: At what point did you realize your music had changed the world? Or had, at least, helped change attitudes in the world?
P: I suppose it was our first big success in America. I started to realize that the attention was not just local, and it was around the time of Sgt. Pepper when we started seeing our clothes and the music we were making getting copied on an international level. Although this had happened before at home, with people getting the Beatle haircut and all dressing in a similar fashion, it was around about Sgt. Pepper that you could feel the worldwide movement. You could feel that people in California were thinking about what you were thinking about. And that’s when people started saying to us, ‘Wow man, you know your music changed my life!’ So, I think around about that time I started to think it was changing the world
Source: William Curtis/britpopnews.com
