Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr and John Lennon in a scene from the nearly 8-hour Peter Jackson-produced documentary Get Back (Photo: Disney+ via AP) Before the break-up, most thought of them as “moptops, and they’re a gang, and they’re all best mates”, says Carty’s podcast co-host Steven Cockcroft. What a change from the self-pitying moaners crooning their lovelorn tunes from the tortured shallows of lukewarm hearts.”Įven as things took a turn for the goo goo g’joob – the Queen supposedly remarked to EMI’s Sir Joseph Lockwood in 1967 that “The Beatles are turning awfully funny, aren’t they?” – their story remained roughly the same. “They’re young, new,” gushed a Daily Mirror editorial in 1963. John Lennon and Paul McCartney’s songwriting partnership and the palpable glee The Beatles felt at being The Beatles were at its heart. She calls the first the “Fab Four” narrative.
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