", LENNON: "Because George's relationship with me was one of young follower and older guy. The Beatles don't exist and can never exist again. Although I really haven't listened. He was just enjoying the session and the spirit was very good, but I was with Yoko, you know. I thought, Oh, no, don't tell me I have to work on George's stuff. ", PLAYBOY: "Why did you become a househusband? Every one of them was a mess or a rip-off. ", PLAYBOY: "Most people would have continued to churn out the product. A high school reunion? Everyone talks in terms of the last record or the last Beatle concert... but, God willing, there are another 40 years of productivity to go. ), PLAYBOY: "You actually haven't mentioned George much in this interview. In 2008 Carter brought Breakfast w/ the Beatles nationwide via Little Steven’s Underground Garage on Sirius/XM Satellite Radio. So Ringo's talent would have come out one way or the other as something or other. My ex-husband [Alan Aldridge, who did graphic design for the Beatles] might be the only person who didn’t think Playboy was cool. There was all this 'But you don't know anything about law; I can't talk to you.' Paul had a lot of training, could play a lot of instruments. It was perfect for Ringo to sing. But, you know, there were a few digs on his album before mine. ", PLAYBOY: "You keep saying you don't want to go back ten years, that too much has changed. Said Lennon in a 1980 Playboy interview: She was trying to find God quicker than anyone else. I'm not in the book. What is this Paul and John business? They're gonna look back at the Beatles and the Stones and all those guys as relics. But I had lost the initial freedom of the artist by becoming enslaved to the image of what the artist is supposed to do. But the owner came up and whispered to her, 'Let him hammer a nail in. You know, he's a millionaire. This is what McCartney said to Hunter Davies in 1981 just a few months after the playboy interview was published and John had died. Time for golf. He could have changed a couple of bars in that song and nobody could ever have touched him, but he just let it go and paid the price. But I didn't. But now I understand that it was just the same competitive game going on. But, anyway, back on that night, he and Linda walked in and he and I were just sitting there, watching the show, and we went, 'Ha-ha, wouldn't it be funny if we went down?' ", PLAYBOY: "Would you be referring to Paul McCartney? ", LENNON: "That was a period when Paul just kept turning up at our door with a guitar. But to get back to your original question about the Beatles and their music, the answer is that we did some good stuff and we did some bad stuff. ", ONO: "No, no, no. The show is informative, biographical, and filled with Beatles (and solo Beatle) music that ranges from the ultra familiar to the ultra rare. I didn't understand the first bit yet. You know, he's got 25 kids and about 20,000,000 records out. If you listen to the Beatles' first albums, the English versions, he gets a single track. It had been John and Paul so long, he'd been left out because he hadn't been a songwriter up until then. I used to pick songs for them from my repertoire... the easier ones to sing. He's always working. The days when those bands were just all men will be on the newsreels, you know. ", LENNON: "As I said, I had already begun to want to leave, but when I met Yoko is like when you meet your first woman. He was a professional drummer who sang and performed and had Ringo Starr-time and he was in one of the top groups in Britain but especially in Liverpool before we even had a drummer. I made no contribution to the lyrics there. No one would get upset with Ringo singing it. 'Sgt. After all those years, it was all I knew. On 'Pepper,' under the pressure of only ten days, I managed to come up with 'Lucy in the Sky' and 'Day in the Life.' (chuckles) "They're all male, you know, just big and fat, vodka lunch, shouting males, like trained dogs, trained to attack all the time. '", LENNON: "Well, he walked right into it. ", PLAYBOY: "Aside from the millions you've been offered for a reunion concert, how did you feel about producer Lorne Michaels' generous offer of $3200 for appearing together on 'Saturday Night Live' a few years ago? Chris has personally interviewed Beatles: Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, and Pete Best. You leave the guys at the bar. Rock 'n' roll was not fun anymore. ", PLAYBOY: "You say you haven't listened to Paul's work and haven't really talked to him since that night in your apartment...", LENNON: "Really talked to him, no, that's the operative word. https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/paul-mccartney-beatles-20-best-songs-playlist First you become a recluse, then you talk selectively to the press because you have a new album coming out. But I can't... it's easier to say what I gave to him than what he gave to me. ", LENNON: "'Imagine,' 'Love' and those Plastic Ono Band songs stand up to any song that was written when I was a Beatle. 'I don't? I heard 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' on the radio last night. This list of people in Playboy 1960–69 is a catalog of women and men who appeared in Playboy magazine in the years 1960 through 1969. So the cooperation was functional as well as musical. 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