interesting interviews

[googoo]

Q: "What was the conflict with Paul? I don't understand."

GEORGE: "It's just a thing like, you know, he'd written all these songs for years and stuff, and Paul and I went to school together. I got the feeling that, you know, everybody changes and sometimes people don't want other people to change, or even if you do change they won't accept that you've changed. And they keep in their mind some other image of you, you know. Gandhi said, 'Create and preserve the image of your choice.' And so different people have different images of their friends or people they see."

Q: "So what was his image of you?"

GEORGE: "Well, I got the impression it was like, he still acted as if he was the groovy Lennon/McCartney. Because there was a point in my life where I realized anybody can be Lennon/McCartney, you know. 'Cuz being part of Lennon/McCartney really I could see, you know, I could appreciate them-- how good they actually are. And at the same time I could see the infatuation that the public had, or the praise that was put on them. And I could see everybody's a Lennon/McCartney if that's what you wanna be. But the point is nobody's special. There's not many special people around. And somebody else... If Lennon/McCartney are special, then Harrison and Starkey are special, too. That's really-- What I'm saying is that I can be Lennon/McCartney too, but I'd rather be Harrison, you know."
April, 1970

www.geocities.com/~beatleboy1/dbgh470.int.html

Could this be George's disillusionment after realizing Paul could be replaced, and most people didn't know the difference?

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PLAYBOY: "How did you react to the misinterpretations of your songs?"

LENNON: "For instance?"

PLAYBOY: "The most obvious is the 'Paul is dead' fiasco. You already explained the line in 'Glass Onion.' What about the line in 'I am the Walrus'... (correction: Strawberry Fields Forever) ...'I buried Paul'?"

LENNON: "I said 'Cranberry sauce.' That's all I said. Some people like ping-pong, other people like digging over graves. Some people will do anything rather than be here now."
1980

www.geocities.com/~beatleboy1/dbjypb.int1.html

Why would John use the phrase "digging over graves" if there was no grave to be dug up? Just a figure of speech?

[Forum Manager]

or how about "Some people will do anything rather than be here now." paul sure wasnt there now.

[plastic paul]

Not just "digging over graves", but "Some people will do anything rather than be here now." seems to me more of a clue because it's exactly the kind of tounge in cheek clue john would drop in IMO.

[Ludwig]

I Posted this on another thread. Thought it fit here.

>>I saw an interview of Ringo last night on "Access Hollywood" (US) or some similar program. He was at a gallery opening in New York as his paintings, etc. are being displayed there and the interviewer, an Englishman, asked him outright "Will you and Paul McCartney be going on tour together?" "No!" he responds with no hesitation. Stunned, the interviewer says "Really?" and Ringo says no again. Ringo then says "It will never happen so let's get that out there" or words to that effect. "Paul and I haven't toured since 1965..." the interiviewer says something about "billy" and Ringo inserts "...he tours with his band and I tour with mine." It was interesting. He wouldn't look at the camera or the interviewer and appeared VERY uncomfortable at the line of questions. he only made reference to Faul after the interviewer said something about "billy". Could be interpreted as - Paul and I will never tour becauses he's dead. What do y'all make of it? I'll try to scare up a link or clip.<<

[abbey]

It seems that even Ringo was dropping a very valid hint there. He can't tour with a dead man.

I would love to see that interview.