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The Beatles announced they had split up on April 10, 1970, when Paul McCartney held a press conference to tell the world he was working on a solo record, McCartney. The Fab Four had been bickering for weeks, at that point, so it wasn’t a major surprise. After the announcement, the Hey Jude singer began working on his own music, alone, for the first time in over ten years. This all came as great comfort for the Fab Four star.
McCartney looked back on breaking up with the rest of his band in his recent songbook, The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present.
In it, he opined: “It was such a relief to get out of those business meetings with people in suits, who were so serious all the time, and to go off to Scotland and be able just to sit around in a T-shirt and corduroys.”
McCartney secluded himself on his Scottish farm with his wife, Linda McCartney, and their children. There, he worked on his own music and unwound from the months of arguments he endured with his bandmates in The Beatles.
As a result, the solo Beatle wrote the track Junior’s Farm, a non-album song that praises the simple life away from business and corporations.
McCartney went on: “I was very much in that mindset when I wrote this song. The basic message is, let’s get out of here. You might say it’s my post-Beatles getting-out-of-town song.”
During this writing period, McCartney also penned some tracks that took aim at his former bandmates.
Most notably, he zeroed in on John Lennon in his 1971 song Too Many People. He later confessed it had “a little dig at John and Yoko”. Specifically, the lyrics “preaching practices” and “you took your lucky break and broke it in two” condemned the star for splitting up The Beatles.
McCartney also later confirmed that it was not him who ended The Beatles – it was Lennon.
McCartney confirmed: “I didn’t instigate the split. That was our Johnny [Lennon] coming in one day and saying: ‘I’m leaving the group.'”
He did add, however, that he was not surprised by Lennon’s decision to disband the Fab Four. “The point of it really was that John was making a new life with Yoko,” he said.
“John had always wanted to sort of break loose from society because, you know, he was brought up by his Aunt Mimi, who was quite repressive, so he was always looking to break loose.”
McCartney also opened up about why he sued the rest of the band when they split up.
He pointed out that he sued the band in the first place to regain control of his song rights from producer Allen Klein.
“I had to fight,” he said. “And the only way I could fight was in suing the other Beatles, because they were going with Klein. And they thanked me for it years later.”
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