Paul McCartney Said It Was an Illusion That John Lennon Was More 'Deep' Than Him

After The Beatles broke up, Paul McCartney noticed a difference in the way the public perceived himself and John Lennon. He believed that traits people thought of as marks of creative genius in Lennon were seen as flaws in himself. McCartney also noted that people thought of Lennon as a deep thinker but didn’t think of him the same way. He didn’t believe that Lennon was a more profound thinker than him.

Lennon was murdered in 1980, and McCartney believes that fans rewrote history to make his contributions to The Beatles seem more substantial.

“The minute John died, there started to be a revisionism,” McCartney told Rolling Stone in 2001. “There were some strange quotes, like, ‘John was the only one in the Beatles.’ Or ‘Paul booked the studio’ — I don’t want to get into who said what, but that was attributed to someone who very much knew better. ‘John was the Mozart; Paul was the Salieri.’ Like, John was the real genius, and I was just the guy who sang ‘Yesterday’ — and I got lucky to do that.”

McCartney said that he tried to ignore this, but he couldn’t help but feel hurt by it.

Source: Emma McKee/cheatsheet.com

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