Now McCartney Says He’s The Political Beatle

A new report says that Paul McCartney claims that he is the real politicized figure in the Beatles, not John Lennon.

McCartney is quoted as stating that it was he who first voiced concerns over the Vietnam War with the legendary foursome and advocated their anti-war stance.

According to the report, McCartney claims that a meeting he had with philosopher Bertrand Russell in the mid 1960’s fueled his own- and eventually John Lennon’s curiosity- about world affairs. Apparently, after his ‘talk’ with Russell he ‘told the guys, particularly John Lennon’ about the meeting and telling them (the Beatles) “what a bad war it was.”

The interview, in Britain’s’ Prospect Magazine, also says that McCartney believes his stance has inspired the work against poverty by Bob Geldof and Bono of U2.


"Give Peace a Chance" was the first "solo" single released by a member of the Beatles while the band was still intact, though, technically, the artist was credited as Plastic Ono Band, not John Lennon. It reached number 14 on the pop charts in the United States and was kept out of the top slot in the UK by The Rolling Stones' "Honky Tonk Women".

The song quickly became the anthem of the anti-war movement, and was sung by as many as half a million demonstrators in Washington, D.C. at the Vietnam Moratorium Day, on 15 October 1969. They were led by the renowned folk singer Pete Seeger, who interspersed phrases like, "Are you listening, Nixon?" and "Are you listening, Agnew?", between the choruses of protesters singing, "All we are saying ... is give peace a chance".

OK, now for my opinion. Oh really, Sir McCartney? Wasn’t Lennon the songwriter of such classics as “Revolution,” “Give Peace A Chance,” “I Don’t Want To Be A Solder” as well as “Imagine” (‘imagine all the people, living life in peace’)? Where were you at the ‘bed-in’ for peace in Toronto, where were you when John and Yoko led anti-war protests in New York City in the early 70’s?

I am appalled by the suggestion that YOU were the political Beatle. John Lennon and Yoko Ono did more to promote peace than Paul McCartney ever dreamed of. At this point in his life I can only conclude that he is not only delusional, but probably jealous of what Lennon accomplished in his short lifetime.