<p id=”par-1_57″><a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/tag/john-lennon/”>John Lennon</a> notoriously spoke out against much of <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/tag/paul-mccartney”>Paul McCartney’s</a> post-Beatles music. He even criticized the work McCartney did while in the band. McCartney took a similar stance against one of Lennon’s albums. Though he wrote liner notes for <em>Two Virgins</em>, McCartney didn’t think the album was all that good. Still, he took credit for parts of it.</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-paul-mccartney-wasn-t-a-fan-of-one-john-lennon-album”>Paul McCartney wasn’t a fan of one John Lennon album</h2>
<p id=”par-2_47″>In 1968, Lennon and Yoko Ono released <em>Two Virgins</em>, the first of three experimental albums they put out as a couple. The album drew major controversy for its cover; Lennon and Ono posed fully naked for it. The other Beatles fielded questions from reporters about it, <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/beatles-horrified-john-lennons-two-virgins-cover.html/”>to their frustration</a>. </p>
<p id=”par-3_29″>McCartney claimed that the cover raised his eyebrows, but he didn’t find it overly shocking. His bigger problem was that he didn’t much like the contents of the album.</p>
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<p id=”par-4_67″>“The <em>Two Virgins</em> record itself I didn’t find that interesting; the music wasn’t shocking to me because I’d made a lot like that myself,” McCartney said in <em>The Beatles Anthology.</em> “I think John may have got some ideas from when I had a couple of Brennell tape recorders. I used to bounce sounds between them and multi-track to make crazy tapes for friends late at night. It was just ambient music.”</p>
<p id=”par-5_12″>He said Lennon asked him to show him how to do this.</p>
<p id=”par-6_41″>“John asked me how I did it, so I showed him how to plug the machines up,” he said. “John got two at his house in Weybridge, with exactly the same set-up, and I showed him how to use it all.”</p>
<p id=”par-7_13″>Perhaps McCartney believed he could have made a better version of the album.</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-george-harrison-and-ringo-starr-felt-similarly-nbsp”>George Harrison and Ringo Starr felt similarly </h2>
<p id=”par-8_31″>McCartney was not the only Beatle who disliked <em>Two Virgins</em>. Ringo Starr said he would never forget seeing the cover, but he could scarcely remember how the album sounded. George Harrison agreed.</p>
<p id=”par-9_68″>“I don’t think I actually heard all of <em>Two Virgins</em>, just bits of it,” Harrison said. “I wasn’t particularly into that kind of thing. That was his and her affair; their trip. They got involved with each other and were obviously into each other to such a degree that they thought everything they said or did was of world importance, and so they made it into records and films.”</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-john-lennon-disliked-much-of-paul-mccartney-s-music”>John Lennon disliked much of Paul McCartney’s music</h2>
<p id=”par-10_26″>After The Beatles broke up, Lennon gave multiple interviews in which he insulted McCartney’s music. He was particularly hard on his former bandmate’s debut solo album, <em>McCartney</em>.</p>
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<p id=”par-11_51″>“I thought Paul’s was rubbish,” Lennon told <a target=”_blank” href=”https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/lennon-remembers-part-one-186693/” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>Rolling Stone</a> in 1971. “I think he’ll make a better one, when he’s frightened into it. But I thought that first one was just a lot of . . . Remember what I told you when it came out? ‘Light and easy,’ You know that crack.”</p>
<p id=”par-12_34″>Though he was less harsh as the years passed, Lennon admitted he <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/john-lennon-never-felt-loss-stopped-working-paul-mccartney.html/”>never felt a loss</a> when he stopped writing with McCartney. He felt he was the better songwriter, and didn’t need McCartney to help him.</p>