Paul McCartney On Annoying Thing Directors Get Wrong About the Beatles

During the Beatles‘ heyday, by all accounts, Paul McCartney and John Lennon had a loving, as well as deeply competitive, personal relationship. And while it ended in messy animosity during the Fab Four’s breakup in 1970 and in a series of thinly veiled musical shots they took at each other in their solo material in the years after — check out McCartney’s “Too Many People” and “Silly Love Songs” and Lennon’s “How Do You Sleep?” — in the end they made peace before Lennon’s murder in 1980.

But, as it turns out, there is still one sore subject you can bring up about the two men that will get McCartney riled up: their heights.

On this week’s new episode of the pod Good Hang with Amy Poehler, the Parks and Recreation star waded into the subject with a simple question about the age gap between the Beatles, which unexpectedly turned into a Macca rant about the one fact about the band that he thinks filmmakers keep screwing up.

“George was how many years younger than you, Paul?,” Poehler asked. “I think like about one and a half [years younger],” he said of the late Beatles guitarist/singer, noting that Lennon was one and a half years older than him.

“Who was the tallest?” Poehler wondered in a follow-up.

Oh boy.

“We were all the same height,” McCartney, 84, said a bit defensively, holding up a finger in emphasis. “You really were,” Poehler said with a sly smile as she willfully opened the Pandora’s box.

Source: billboard.com/Gil Kaufman

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