{"id":806406,"date":"2020-04-15T08:35:24","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T14:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=984210"},"modified":"2020-04-15T08:35:24","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T14:35:24","slug":"paul-mccartney-explains-to-howard-stern-why-the-beatles-were-better-than-the-stones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/paul-mccartney-explains-to-howard-stern-why-the-beatles-were-better-than-the-stones\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul McCartney Explains to Howard Stern Why the \u2018Beatles Were Better\u2019 Than The Stones"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Paul McCartney<\/a> phoned into The Howard Stern Show<\/em> Tuesday morning for a wide-ranging conversation that touched on everything from his love of Billie Eilish to his life during the quarantine to the Beatles<\/a> ancient rivalry with the Rolling Stones<\/a>. Stern suggested that the Beatles were the better band and McCartney didn\u2019t disagree.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know you\u2019re going to persuade me to agree with that one,\u201d McCartney said. \u201cThey are rooted in the blues. When they are writing stuff, it has to do with the blues. We had a little more influences\u2026 There\u2019s a lot of differences and I love the Stones, but I\u2019m with you. The Beatles were better.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stern then brought up the Stones\u2019 attempt to create their own Sgt. Pepper<\/em>-like album in late 1967 with Their Satanic Majesties Request.<\/em> \u201cWe started to notice that whatever we did, the Stones sort of did it shortly thereafter,\u201d McCartney said. \u201cWe went to America and we had huge success. Then the Stones went to America. We did Sgt. Pepper<\/em>, the Stones did a psychedelic album. There\u2019s a lot of that. We were great friends, still are kind of. We admire each other\u2026 The Stones are a fantastic group. I go see them every time they\u2019re out. They\u2019re great, great band.\u201d<\/p>\n

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McCartney isn\u2019t promoting much at the moment since the coronavirus has essentially shut down most of the music industry, but he did talk about the upcoming documentary The Beatles: Get Back<\/em>. The film is directed by Peter Jackson and draws from previously-unseen footage shot during the making of Let It Be<\/em> in 1969. The audio from the shoot leaked many years ago, but the vast majority of the footage that didn\u2019t make the original Let It Be<\/em> film has never been seen.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Jackson] has gotten ahold of about 54 hours of film footage,\u201d McCartney said. \u201cI\u2019ll tell you, Howard, it\u2019s great. I\u2019m not bullshitting. You see this kind of thing, this relationship between me and John and me and George. You\u2019ll get it.\u201d<\/p>\n