The second solo after the final bridge is accompanied by a drum stick on the side of a floor tom. The guitar solo between the second bridge and third stanza is played by Hugh McCracken. McCartney sang falsetto during parts of the bridge. McCartney later wrote “Dear Friend”, a truce offering to Lennon, and released it on the album Wild Life with his band, Wings. In response, Lennon wrote “How Do You Sleep?” for his album Imagine, an attack at McCartney featuring musical contributions from George Harrison. And ‘You took your lucky break’, that was considering we had a lucky break to be with him. There were all the bits at the beginning of Ram like ‘Too many people going underground’. I think the only really where I kind of criticised - and it was in my usual kind of quite veiled manner – was in ‘Too Many People’ Paul McCartney – From “ RAM Archive Collection“, 2012įollowing the release of Ram, John Lennon pointed out several songs that he claimed were attacks on him, among them being “ Too Many People“: Paul McCartney – Interview with Disc And Music Echo, November 1971 I suppose when I wrote ‘Too many people preaching practices/Don’t let them tell you what you want to be’ was at him. Sometimes when I’m pissed off with John over the Apple business a line might creep in. Paul McCartney – From “ RAM Archive Collection“, 2012 And it was directly aimed at John, but it was about our relationship at that time, and me feeling that I didn’t need to be preached at. So in the song “Too Many People”, I started off “Too many people preaching practices”. I did feel like he was, you know, preaching a little bit about what everyone should do, how they should live their lives, and I felt – at the time – that some of it was a bit hypocritical. “Too Many People” was really a message to John across the airwaves. Paul McCartney – From interview with Mojo, 2001 So that one got to be a thing about them. Suddenly it was “You should do this.” It was just a bit the wagging finger, and I was pissed off with it. The whole tenor of the Beatles thing had been, like, each to his own. And I felt we didn’t need to be told what to do. But the first line is about “too many people preaching practices.” I felt John and Yoko were telling everyone what to do. Like, a piece of cake becomes piss off cake, And it’s nothing, it’s so harmless really, just little digs. “ Too Many People” opens with the words “ Piss off,” which McCartney eventually admitted was a direct attack on Lennon. Paul McCartney – From Playboy interview, 1984Īt the time it was surely an understatement to say that there was “ one tiny little reference” to John Lennon in this song. Oh, there was “Yoko took your lucky break and broke it in two. There wasn’t anything else on it that was about them. I mean, that was a little dig at John and Yoko. In one song, I wrote, “Too many people preaching practices,” I think is the line. He’d been doing a lot of preaching, and it got up my nose a little bit. I was looking at my second solo album, Ram, the other day and I remember there was one tiny little reference to John in the whole thing. The lyrics were interpreted as targeting John Lennon and Yoko Ono, which Paul acknowledged years later. “ Too Many People” is the opening song of Paul and Linda McCartney’s 1971 album “ Ram“.
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