John Lennon blasted Mick Jagger for ‘imitating’ The Beatles
After The Beatles went mainstream, a lot of the music trade started making an attempt to emulate them in a technique or one other.
As the first songwriters for the Fab Four, John Lennon and Paul McCartney have been approached by numerous bands to assist them pen chart-topping hits over time.
But Lennon observed their skilled rivals, The Rolling Stones, have been making an attempt to maintain up with them greater than anybody else.
And finally, he known as the band’s frontman, Mick Jagger, out for mimicking their work.
Lennon instructed Rolling Stone journal: “I would like to just list what we did and what the Stones did two months after on every f****ng album.”
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Lennon went on so as to add: “Every f****ng thing we did, Mick does exactly the same – he imitates us.”
The Imagine singer was not the one individual in The Beatles to have observed the obvious similarities between the 2 bands.
George Harrison as soon as commented: “Mick Jagger was also there. He was always lurking around in the background, trying to find out what was happening. Mick never wanted to miss out on what the Fabs were doing.”
It’s no surprise Jagger wished to maintain a detailed eye on The Beatles, particularly after that they had helped The Rolling Stones discover a new model of success.
In the early Sixties, Jagger turned acquainted with the Fab Four and finally bought a large tune from them: I Wanna Be Your Man.
“We knew [the Beatles] by then,” Jagger remembered. “And we were rehearsing and Andrew brought Paul and John down to the rehearsal. They said they had this tune, they were really hustlers then. I mean, the way they used to hustle tunes was great.”
Lennon and McCartney instructed the frontman: “Hey Mick, we’ve got this great song.” Jagger continued: “So they played it and we thought it sounded pretty commercial, which is what we were looking for, so we did it like Elmore James or something.
“I haven’t heard it for ages nevertheless it have to be fairly freaky ’trigger no person actually produced it. It was utterly crackers, nevertheless it was successful and sounded nice onstage.”
I Wanna Be Your Man reached quantity 12 within the UK singles charts, making it their highest-charting observe ever.