He went to live with the uncle - the uncle died. Whereas John, you've got to remember, didn't have a father. So that, that turned out to be my sort of way. He was an ordinary working-class guy, very intelligent, very good with words, but his whole philosophy was to think it out a bit. You jump, and tell me how it is.' That's basically the difference in our personalities. 'Have you ever thought of jumping?' I said, 'F**k off. "John always wanted to jump over the cliff," he shares. McCartney muses that Lennon not having a father figure was a big cause for his outlook at life. He did say it, but he said all sorts of sh**." "The 'ancient art of trepanning,' which lent a little bit of validity to it, because ancient must be good. We'd all read about it - you know, this is the '60s," he explains. On a similar note, McCartney says Lennon didn't actually try trepanning - drilling through the skull to the brain. That was, 'OK, that's John.' You'd have to talk him down a bit - 'No, probably not Hitler…' I could say to him, 'No, we're not doing that.' He was a good enough guy to know when he was being told." Pepper cover he wanted Jesus Christ and Hitler on there. I don't remember him actually ever doing it.
"He was the kind of guy that could do that. I think I would have remembered that," he shares. McCartney goes on to comment on Lennon's more outrageous behavior, but says the iconic musician didn't actually say he was Jesus Christ. We were always very close and on top of each other, which meant you could totally read each other." I mean, I think in the end this was one of the strengths of the Beatles, this enforced closeness which I always liken to army buddies. "I don't know whether that was George losing his virginity - it might have been. I know we had one bed and two sets of bunks, and if one of the guys brought a girl back, they could just be in the bed with a blanket over them, and you wouldn't really notice much except a little bit of movement," he says. "The thing is, these stories, particularly Beatles stories, they get to be legendary, and I do have to check: Wait a minute. Not even Brigitte Bardot."'Īs for another late Beatles member, McCartney cautiously calls the rumor of the band cheering on the late George Harrison after he lost his virginity at 17 true - but later clarifies. There's so many things like that from when you're a kid that you look back on and you're, 'Did we do that?' But it was good harmless fun. Yeah, it's quite raunchy when you think about it. But, you know, it was just the kind of thing you didn't think much of. "I think it was a one-off," McCartney adds of their antics. "I think John was a little more that way, because thinking back, I remember there was someone in a club that he'd met, and they'd gone back to the house because the wife fancied John, wanted to have sex with him, so that happened, and John discovered the husband was watching. "See, the thing is, in the next room I think the guys might have ordered something else off the menu," he adds. But that's the closest I ever came to an orgy." And I had them, and it was a wonderful experience. There was once when we were in Vegas where the tour guy, a fixer, said, 'You're going to Vegas, guys - you want a hooker?' We were all, 'Yeah!' And I requested two. "There were sexual encounters of the celestial kind, and there were groupies. "There weren't really orgies, to my knowledge," McCartney recalls. McCartney says he's not a fan of orgies, but does acknowledge he once had a threesome. Aside from acid, McCartney addresses the more scandalous rumors surrounding the band, including Lennon once saying Beatles tours were like orgies.
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