Paul McCartney has said that his late Beatles bandmate and close friend, John Lennon "could be a complete idiot".
The music icon was speaking about this during a chat with director, Judd Apatow, where he reflected on the pair's infamously intense early period in the 1970s.
During this chat, Apatow asked McCartney why John Lennon had appeared to be irritated by his post-Beatles direction, asking: “Was it a joyfulness to it while he's doing primal scream and you're having fun? What do you think got under his skin about it?”.
On this direction, including his Wings career, Paul McCartney replied: “Well, I don't know. I think maybe he expected more from me. He expected something different from me, and I wasn't doing that. I was just doing ‘madcap’".
“I always thought John was very cool, and I still do. But he could be a complete idiot, over some things", he added.
Despite these issues, Paul McCartney insisted that John Lennon's behaviour did not change how he always felt about him.
“It wouldn't matter, as it didn't matter, what he said or did, because I'd known him since I was 15, and so he was like this mad guy I knew, and I really looked up to him", he stated.
Such behaviour perhaps included John Lennon publicly criticising Paul McCartney's solo work, including famously saying in 1971 that he could never envisage working with McCartney again, a year after the Beatles split up.
However, in 1975, John Lennon did praise McCartney's work on Band on the Run with Wings: “Wings keeps changing all the time. It's conceptual. I mean, they're backup men for Paul. It doesn't matter who's playing. You can call them Wings, but it's Paul McCartney music. And it's good stuff".
Post Beatles, Paul McCartney formed Wings in 1971 with his then wife, Linda McCartney and Denny Laine, which also included Denny Siewell. (All quotes according to MusicNews.com).
Back in August, Paul McCartney was one of many musicians to pay tribute to the late Dolly Parton, including Elton John and Mick Jagger. More on this here.
