‘Crippled Inside’ is pretty clearly a re-write of McCartney’s ‘When I’m Sixty-four’, as another gratuitous dig at him. It may have developed in Lennon’s perception into corny C&W, but it surely started as a pastiche of what Lennon considered as McCartney’s “grannie songs”, missing the point that McCartney very effectively made a pastiche of Music Hall an interesting element of the Beatles’ rejigging the basis of contemporary pop. To say this is a bit rich of Lennon is to put it mildly. Both Lennon and Harrison were way off-mark in criticising McCartney. They were in fact ‘projecting’ their own shortcomings.
Harrison and Starr also complained about Paul’s granny songs. The best example was that the other three Beatles were fed-up to the teeth with the numerous takes for Paul’s ” Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da” and “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer”. Lennon, Harrison and Starr all quit the Beatles because of one of Paul’s main shortcomings—Paul was the last one to realize that the Beatles were through. Major business differences as well contributed to another example of three against one. Your remarks seem to imply that McCartney was above criticism and all of the blame for the break-up belongs to Lennon and Harrison.
Paul and George also complained about Yoko. Hell everyone complained about her. And are we forgetting how everyone felt about Revolution 9 being included on the album? There were hundreds of takes for a lot of songs, not just those. All the Beatles had instances of being irritated and resentful toward each other, but this narrative that Paul was the only Beatle to make mistakes or cause dissent is so tired, and frankly, incorrect. One need only examine the evidence. Forget the Let It Be movie which is cut with an agenda to up drama and listen to the Get Back audio tapes, for instance.
3 v 1 means nothing and proves nothing. The majority isn’t always right. And you’re wrong about why Harrison and Lennon quit… Lennon quit because he wanted to self-destruct the group. Harrison quit because Lennon kept letting Yoko talk for him and they got into a ‘row.’
If you were somehow to cross/hybridize ‘Black Dog’ with the ubiquitous (for the time) song ‘San Francisco Bay Blues’ you would definitely come up with Crippled Inside. Or perhaps JL said to the band in the studio, ‘ok, let’s do a cross between BD and SFBB fellas,’ and off they went. Really. Go listen to Eric Clapton’s unplugged 1992 version of SFBB and you’ll see what I mean. Lennon’s disarming lyrics belie the honky tonk tone though.
“You can live a lie until you die”
I would bet my life this line was about John AND Paul.
“Living is easy with eyes closed; misunderstanding all you see”
“I told you about the walrus and me-man, you know that we’re as close as can be-man, well here’s another clue for you all, the Walrus was Paul”
I wonder if John would still feel the Beatles were a “lie” if he were alive today, given how popular they still are. Somehow I think not.
‘Crippled Inside’ is pretty clearly a re-write of McCartney’s ‘When I’m Sixty-four’, as another gratuitous dig at him.
It may have developed in Lennon’s perception into corny C&W, but it surely started as a pastiche of what Lennon considered as McCartney’s “grannie songs”, missing the point that McCartney very effectively made a pastiche of Music Hall an interesting element of the Beatles’ rejigging the basis of contemporary pop.
To say this is a bit rich of Lennon is to put it mildly. Both Lennon and Harrison were way off-mark in criticising McCartney. They were in fact ‘projecting’ their own shortcomings.
Harrison and Starr also complained about Paul’s granny songs. The best example was that the other three Beatles were fed-up to the teeth with the numerous takes for Paul’s ” Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da” and “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer”.
Lennon, Harrison and Starr all quit the Beatles because of one of Paul’s main shortcomings—Paul was the last one to realize that the Beatles were through.
Major business differences as well contributed to another example of three against one.
Your remarks seem to imply that McCartney was above criticism and all of the blame for the break-up belongs to Lennon and Harrison.
Paul and George also complained about Yoko. Hell everyone complained about her. And are we forgetting how everyone felt about Revolution 9 being included on the album? There were hundreds of takes for a lot of songs, not just those. All the Beatles had instances of being irritated and resentful toward each other, but this narrative that Paul was the only Beatle to make mistakes or cause dissent is so tired, and frankly, incorrect. One need only examine the evidence. Forget the Let It Be movie which is cut with an agenda to up drama and listen to the Get Back audio tapes, for instance.
3 v 1 means nothing and proves nothing. The majority isn’t always right. And you’re wrong about why Harrison and Lennon quit… Lennon quit because he wanted to self-destruct the group. Harrison quit because Lennon kept letting Yoko talk for him and they got into a ‘row.’
If you were somehow to cross/hybridize ‘Black Dog’ with the ubiquitous (for the time) song ‘San Francisco Bay Blues’ you would definitely come up with Crippled Inside. Or perhaps JL said to the band in the studio, ‘ok, let’s do a cross between BD and SFBB fellas,’ and off they went. Really. Go listen to Eric Clapton’s unplugged 1992 version of SFBB and you’ll see what I mean. Lennon’s disarming lyrics belie the honky tonk tone though.