And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.
From Paul McCartney
Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'
But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.
None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.
Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well.
We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells.
At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.
Think globally, act locally.
It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard 'Heartbreak Hotel' I thought, this is it.
We were a savage little lot, Liverpool kids, not pacifist or vegetarian or anything. But I feel I've gone beyond that, and that it was immature to be so prejudiced and believe in all the stereotypes.
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