On experimenting with an orchestra in Sgt. It was a guy out of this strange band, and in some way, it was just liberating.' So the idea was so that when you stepped up to a microphone, it was not now John Lennon Beatle doing his song. We can sing like whoever they saw the band is. So it meant now anything goes, we don't have to sing like The Beatles. 'I don't think it really was terrifying or even boring, but I had this idea to just change our identity and make ourselves think that we were kind of another band. Pepper's' At 50: Why The Beatles' Masterpiece Can't Be Replicated And also when you stepped up to a microphone, you were conscious of all that background of, 'I'm Beatle Paul, and I'm going to do a Beatle Paul song.' So we can't get too far out because people just go, 'What the hell's going on? They've gone mad!' So you had certain standards for Beatles records you were always trying to advance those standards, but there were limits that you felt.

And when you made a record, you knew you were making a Beatles record, and so you imposed certain parameters on it. 'We'd been The Beatles for quite a while. On why they chose to go with a persona on Sgt. And we couldn't because it was just a million seagulls screaming.' It was like, OK, it would be quite nice to be able to hear the song we're playing. 'Later then, it got a bit worrying because now the first sort of flush of the excitement had been going for quite a few years and we were maturing and we were sort of out of that phase. On how the screaming of Beatlemania got old It really was just we young guys trying to get laid, as Americans would say.' It was the fulfillment of all our dreams. It was kind of the opposite for us, so I suppose, as we got more and more popular and the girls started screaming, to tell you the truth, we just enjoyed it. We didn't mind, as long as we were attractive, because as kids, we were apparently not very attractive and we certainly weren't the big kind of quarterback who attracted all the girls in town. So as we got fans, that became our motivation, which was, we were trying to be attractive in any way you like - visually, physically, sexually. We just wanted to have a girlfriend and basically do as much as we could, was the idea. On the Beatles going from normal teenage boys to being the most desired men on the planet McCartney describes writing songs with Lennon as a 'kind of pingpong,' in which the two men would go back and forth with melodies and lyrics. It's a collection of his lyrics and the stories behind them, starting with songs he wrote before The Beatles and ending with songs from his latest album, McCartney III, which was released in 2020. In addition to the documentary, McCartney has a new, two-volume set of books called The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present. 'The film is really great for me, because I see me and John messing around pretending to be ventriloquists instead of being sensible and singing the song.' 'We're just doing goofy things and everyone's behaving very normally and in a very friendly manner,' he says. McCartney says seeing the new footage has helped him reframe his own story.

25 on Disney+, revisits that period, drawing on previously unused footage to tell a different story. Now, the new documentary Get Back, releasing Nov. Music News Peter Jackson To Direct Documentary On The Beatles Recording 'Let It Be'

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