Paul McCartney stated that Yoko Ono’s presence in the studio throughout the Beatles’ recording of Let It Be was “disturbing.” On a latest episode of his podcast, McCartney: A Life in Lyrics, the former Beatle talked with Irish poet Paul Muldoon about the difficult relationship the remainder of the band had with John Lennon’s associate, confessing “I don’t think any of us particularly liked it.”
“Yoko being literally in the middle of the recording session was something you had to deal with,” he stated. “The idea was that if John wanted this to happen, then it should happen. And there was no reason why not.”
But it was definitely, as McCartney noticed it, a distraction. “Anything that disturbs us is disturbing,” he stated. “It was an interference in the workplace. … So not being very confrontational, we just bottled it up and just got on with it.”
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Paul McCartney’s New Podcast
McCartney’s new podcast, A Life in Lyrics, at present has three episodes out there, every a dialog with Muldoon “dissecting the people, experiences and art that inspired McCartney’s songwriting.” Every installment focuses on a specific track. So far they’ve lined “Eleanor Rigby,” “Back in the U.S.S.R.” and “Let It Be.”
“When we listened back to the tapes, we realized there was something very special happening in these conversations,” Muldoon defined. “It was McCartney unfiltered.”
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