Paul McCartney Clears Up an Annoying Tall Tale Filmmakers Keep Getting Wrong About the Beatles: ‘Don’t Do This!’
Categoria: Musica
Forget about who wrote what and pull out the measuring tape!
Por Billboard | 13/10/2026
During the Beatles ‘ heyday, by all accounts, Paul McCartney and John Lennon had a loving, as well as deeply competitive, personal relationship. And while it ended in messy animosity during the Fab Four’s breakup in 1970 and in a series of thinly veiled musical shots they took at each other in their solo material in the years after — check out McCartney’s “Too Many People” and “Silly Love Songs” and Lennon’s “How Do You Sleep?” — in the end they made peace before Lennon’s murder in 1980. Related Amyl and the Sniffers to Headline Golden Hour at Bondi Beach in 2027 Taylor Swift, Meet The Beatles: How This Dynamic Duo Tells the Story of Now & Then on the Billboard Charts How Paul McCartney Wound Up Performing at Taylor Swift’s Wedding But, as it turns out, there is still one sore subject you can bring up about the two men that will get McCartney riled up: their heights. On this week’s new episode of the pod Good Hang with Amy Poehler , the Parks and Recreation star waded into the subject with a simple question about the age gap between the Beatles, which unexpectedly turned into a Macca rant about the one fact about the band that he thinks filmmakers keep screwing up. “George was how many years younger than you, Paul?,” Poehler asked. “I think like about one and a half [years younger],” he said of the late Beatles guitarist/singer, noting that Lennon was one and a half years older than him. “Who was the tallest?” Poehler wondered in a follow-up. Oh boy. “We were all the same height,” McCartney, 84, said a bit defensively, holding up a finger in emphasis. “You really were,” Poehler said with a sly smile as she willfully opened the Pandora’s box. “You know I’ve got a thing about that, do you?” Macca shot back as Poehler feigned ignorance and let out a laugh. “Oh my God. Well, we were all the same height and Ringo was a bit smaller,” McCartney explained to Poehler’s delight. “And if you look at photos, we’re all the same height.” However, Sir Paul noted that director Sam Taylor-Johnson’s 2009 Lennon biopic, Nowhere Boy , featured her future husband and the film’s star, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, as a teenage John who, lamentably, is “bigger” than McCartney in the film. “My character is kind of … wimpy … smaller than John … John knocks me to the floor,” McCartney explained, seemingly still a bit peeved. “And it’s like, ‘Sam, this is not true!’,” he said he told the director, a friend, to guffaws from the pod’s studio crew. McCartney said the director’s explanation was, “‘this is a movie, it’s not a documentary,'” to which he said he replied, “‘well, I don’t like that explanation'” about the character he dubbe