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1970
Paul McCartney announces the breakup of the Beatles
The legendary rock band the Beatles spent the better part of
three years breaking up in the late 1960s, and even longer than
that hashing out who did what and why. And by the spring of 1970,
there was little more than a tangled set of business
relationships keeping the group together. Each of the Beatles was
pursuing his musical interests outside of the band, and there
were no plans in place to record together as a group. But as far
as the public knew, this was just a temporary state of affairs.
That all changed on April 10, 1970, when an ambiguous Paul
McCartney "self-interview" was seized upon by the international
media as an official announcement of a Beatles breakup.
The occasion for the statements Paul released to the press that
day was the upcoming release of his debut solo album, McCartney.
In a Q&A format in which he was both the interviewer and the
interviewee, Paul first asked and answered a number of
straightforward questions involving the recording equipment he
used on the album, which instruments he played and who designed
the artwork for the cover. Then he got to the tough ones:
Q: "Is this album a rest away from the Beatles or the start of a
solo career?"
PAUL: "Time will tell. Being a solo album means it's `the start
of a solo career_and not being done with the Beatles means it's
just a rest. So it's both."
Q: "Is your break with the Beatles temporary or permanent, due to
personal differences or musical ones?"
PAUL: "Personal differences, business differences, musical
differences, but most of all because I have a better time with my
family. Temporary or permanent? I don't really know."
Q: "Do you foresee a time when Lennon-McCartney becomes an active
songwriting partnership again?"
PAUL: "No."
Nothing in Paul's answers constituted a definitive statement
about the Beatles' future, but his remarks were nevertheless
reported in the press under headlines like "McCartney Breaks Off
With Beatles" and "The Beatles sing their swan song." And
whatever his intent at the time, Paul's statements drove a
further wedge between himself and his bandmates. In the May 14,
1970, issue of Rolling Stone, John Lennon lashed out at Paul in a
way he'd never done publicly: "He can't have his own way, so he's
causing chaos," John said. "I put out four albums last year, and
I didn't say a f***ing word about quitting."
By year's end, Paul would file suit to dissolve the Beatles'
business partnership, a formal process that would eventually make
official the unofficial breakup he announced on this day in 1970.
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