McCartney is set to speak on an episode of BBC Radio 4’s series 'This Cultural Life,' which is scheduled to air on Oct. 23, where he sets the record straight on the band’s breakup.
“So for a few months we had to pretend,” McCartney says. “It was weird because we all knew it was the end of the Beatles but we couldn’t just walk away.”
McCartney says he “let the cat out of the bag” after being “fed up of hiding it.” “Around about that time we were having little meetings and it was horrible. It was the opposite of what we were. We were musicians not meeting people,” he said. McCartney sued The Beatles in 1970 but he explains he did so as a means to avoid Klein’s control. “I had to fight and the only way I could fight was in suing the other Beatles, because they were going with Klein. And they thanked me for it years later.”
Had Lennon not decided to walk away, McCartney believes The Beatles would’ve continued on for longer: “The point of it really was that John was making a new life with Yoko. John had always wanted to sort of break loose from society because, you know, he was brought up by his Aunt Mimi, who was quite repressive, so he was always looking to break loose.”
Earlier this year, McCartney announced that he will recount his life and songwriting that has spanned for 64 years in,
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