It would appear as though McCartney was out on his own with this one, however, as even George Harrison reflected on the track with disdain: “Sometimes Paul would make us do these really fruity songs,” he told Crawdaddy in the 1970s. I am the only person who ever put the name of pataphysics into the record charts, c’mon! It was great. Starr told Parade back in 2019 that the track was his. Written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, the track was recorded during the Revolver sessions, even though it wasn’t a part of the album. “Nobody knows what it means I only explained it to Linda just the other day. Ringo Starr - It Don't Come Easy 836,472 views 8.1K Dislike Share ringostarr 199K subscribers Music video by Ringo Starr performing It Don't Come Easy. One of the songs that Ringo Starr said most of the times that was his favorite Beatles song, Rain was first released as single in 1966. So I put that in one of the Beatles songs, ‘Maxwell’s Silver Hammer’,” he said, before explaining the lyrical content. In the very same book, which was written by McCartney’s close friend, the Beatle added: “Miles and I often used to talk about the pataphysical society and the Chair of Applied Alcoholism. That was one of the big things of the period for me,” he added in a somewhat overzealous show of bravado. “It was the best radio play I had ever heard in my life, and the best production, and Ubu was so brilliantly played,” he said in the Barry Miles book Many Years From Now. Despite the frustration around ‘Maxwell’s Silver Hammer’ propping up most interviews during this period – and the issues it subsequently caused – McCartney remained positive at the time of its recording.

But put guitar licks on it and he had somebody hitting iron pieces and we spent more money on that song than any of them in the whole album.”īy this point in time, McCartney’s stronghold over the band was at an all-time high, the bassist acting as the de facto leader after former manager Brian Epstein had passed away. Adding: “He did everything to make it into a single and it never was and it never could’ve been.

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