“I am not the person who instigated the split. In an upcoming interview slated to air on BBC Radio 4 later this month, McCartney discussed the Beatles’ breakup and said he personally was not the cause of their demise, but rather it stemmed from John Lennon. One band is unbelievably luckily still playing in stadiums, and the other band doesn’t exist.” … That’s the real big difference between these two bands. “They broke up before that business started, the touring business for real didn’t start until the end of the Sixties. “The Rolling Stones have been a big concert band in other decades and other eras, when the Beatles never even did an arena tour. Jagger also elaborated on the primary difference between the two. Mick Jagger responded to McCartney’s comments to Stern shortly afterward in an interview with Zane Lowe during his Apple Music show. He added: “There’s a lot of differences, and I love the Stones, but I’m with you. Whereas we had a little more influences,” he told Stern. We went to America and we had huge success. When they are writing stuff, it has to do with the blues. We started to notice, Paul McCartney joked, That whatever we did the Stone sort of did it shortly thereafter. “The Stones are a fantastic group,” McCartney said, adding that he goes to see them live when he can. Last year, while speaking with Howard Stern on Sirius XM, he agreed with the host’s assertion that the Beatles were the better band, though he also made clear he was a fan of the Rolling Stones. “I think our net was cast a bit wider than theirs.”ĭespite it sounding like a dig - and McCartney has previously said that the Beatles are a better band to him - the decades-long rivalry is more friendly and good-natured than adversarial.
“I’m not sure I should say it, but they’re a blues cover band, that’s sort of what the Stones are,” he said. As far as musical palettes go, he told the magazine, the Beatles’ was broader. Head to The Rolling Stones’ website for the latest tour and album information.Paul McCartney did not shy away from his thoughts on where the Beatles stand when it comes to their peers the Rolling Stones in a new interview with T he New Yorker. While no information regarding rescheduled dates has been released, the band has been busy recording and releasing new music. The Rolling Stones were recently forced to postpone the 2020 No Filter summer tour due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Mick Jagger Talks Paul McCartney, The Beatles, & The Rolling Stones One band is unbelievably luckily still playing in stadiums, and then the other band doesn’t exist.” That’s the real big difference between the two bands. Jagger continued, “We started doing stadium gigs in the Seventies and still doing them now. “They broke up before that business started, the touring business for real.” “The Rolling Stones is a big concert band in other decades and other eras when the Beatles never even did an arena tour,” said Jagger. He did, however, use the opportunity to take a lighthearted jab back at The Beatles.
There’s obviously no competition,” he told Lowe. Stones debate has raged on for decades, and Jagger didn’t take McCartney’s comment to heart: “That’s so funny. 1 2 The festival was dubbed 'Oldchella' by Stereogum a few weeks before it was. The performers were the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Neil Young, Roger Waters, and The Who. There’s a lot of differences, and I love the Stones, but I’m with you. Desert Trip was a six-day music festival that took place on October, 2016, at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, United States. “When are writing stuff, it has to do with the blues,” McCartney told Stern in last week’s interview. Related: The Rolling Stones’ Charlie Watts Plays Air Drums During ‘One World’ Performance Mick Jagger has responded to Paul McCartney, who said last week in an interview on The Howard Stern Showthat he believed The Beatles were better than The Rolling Stones. The response came when Jagger joined Zane Lowe‘s Apple Music show on Thursday to promote the Stones’ new single, “Living in a Ghost Town”.