"I said, 'Yeah, sure.' Then I put the phone down. I thought, Well, what about me? I'm not inducted. Now John's going to go in. The thing about John Lennon and McCartney was we were always equal. But, of course, once John got murdered, he became the martyr - the Buddy Holly, the James Dean character - because of the atrocity. So a revisionism started to go on."
"Yoko would be saying things like, 'Oh, Paul only booked the studio.' People have said the greatest things about me. But luckily, there is this thing called history, and there are these things called record books, so I can say, 'Well, no, I actually did more than that.'"
"I bought the deal. Fucking bastards. So none of these things endeared me to him. And it was always, 'It's not me.' Eventually I did creep in there and my daughter Stella wore a T-shirt that said, 'Abou"
Paul McCartney expressed lingering frustration about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's treatment of his solo career compared to John Lennon's. When asked to induct Lennon in 1994, McCartney questioned why he himself hadn't been inducted first, despite The Beatles' 1988 induction. He attributes the disparity to historical revisionism following Lennon's assassination, which elevated Lennon's status to martyr-like proportions. McCartney believes Jann Wenner and Yoko Ono perpetuated a narrative minimizing his contributions, with Ono allegedly claiming he merely booked studios. Though Wenner promised McCartney induction the following year, he failed to deliver until 1999, five years later. McCartney emphasizes that historical records and documented achievements validate his equal partnership with Lennon.
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