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Hear Paul McCartney on his favorite Brian Wilson and Beach Boys song, God Only Knows, from Pet Sounds.  McCartney talks about the friendly rivalry with Wilson and the Beach Boys and how it helped him to move forward as an artist.

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Boys and Brian Wilson Perform God Only Knows

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Beatles member Paul McCartney reacts to the honor of receiving a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame and explains why he never imagined something like this happening as a young boy in England.

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Paul McCartney reminisces on the times he had with fellow Beatles bandmate George Harrison as he touches upon his tragic death on November 29, 2001. The Beatles were an English rock band that formed in Liverpool, in 1960. John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, became the greatest and most influential band of the rock era.

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Paul McCartney shares how he was "always frightened of classical music" and what it was like to be a part of the pop world at the time. James Paul McCartney is an English musician, singer, and songwriter. He gained his fame with the Beatles in the 1960s, and then pursued a solo career from 1970 onward.

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Author: Ben Nussbaum

A short video interview passed into Beatles and pop culture lore: When asked about John Lennon’s death, Paul McCartney, chewing some gum, pronounced it a “drag.”

Paul would tell a later interviewer that all three of the Beatles reacted the same way–they went to work, creating music, on the day they heard the news. “I had just finished a whole day in shock,” he told Playboy Magazine in 1984.

The two men created a business partnership worth billions and an artistic legend that has continued to grow. They met in 1957 when Paul saw John performing with his skiffle group, the Quarrymen. John was 16 and Paul 15. They chatted about music and a few weeks later Paul was invited to join the band. (Both lost their mothers around the time they met–Paul’s mom died in 1956, John’s in 1958.)

Six years after they met, Beatlemania hit the U.K. and then the rest of the world; just six years after that, the band was breaking up, with John and Paul’s friendship having turned into a rivalry and then finally dissolving into a bitter feud.

Still, in the period slightly more than a decade between the Beatles’ break-up and Lennon’s death, the two men did occasionally allow the clouds of acrimony to part. It’s unclear how often they saw each other, but they did communicate. They jammed in 1974, with the resulting music recorded on a bootleg known to fans as “A Toot and a Snore.” Paul told Playboy that their last phone call was pleasant with the two men sharing updates about their family life.

Paul has had to defend his “drag” remarks often. In 1985, Paul admitted, “I’m not very good at public grief.” In 1997, he said, “Somebody stuck a microphone…I couldn’t think of what to say. It was that evening I just went home and wept.”

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