Paul McCartney took part in Q&A with Judd Apatow following a screening of the "Man on the Run" documentary at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures last night in Los Angeles.
Highlights:
Apatow told Neville and McCartney that he saw the film as “a slight nervous breakdown movie — right? There’s a mental health challenge. The Beatles ended; you wanted to live with sheep.”
“Yes. I do love sheep,” said McCartney. “Yeah, it’s very difficult. I’m sure any of you can imagine that. You’ve got this great job, it’s all going great, and then suddenly you haven’t got this great job and it’s not going so great. Oh, and then on top of that there was, like, this business guy, Allen Klein, who was basically stealing the Beatles, and I was the only one who thought that. The other guys thought, ‘No, we love him.'”
“Why were they so dumb?” Apatow blurted.
“Well, I’ll tell you why,” McCartney answered. “Because you’d be at a meeting with him and he’d go, ‘What do you want?’ The New York guy. And we all go, ‘I don’t know.’ ‘What do you want, a million dollars?’ ‘Oh, yeah.’ ‘Okay, you got it.'”
“I can’t believe you had Donald Trump as your manager,” Apatow kidded.
“Great similarities, yeah,” said McCartney, noting of Klein, “He just promised the earth and didn’t deliver it. But meanwhile, I could see that this was a crook. But it was me against the other guys and that was the worst thing, you know. I mean, I’d come up against the guys making music, but it was OK because you could say, ‘You know what? I know I really think this is right,’ and they’d either agree or they wouldn’t, and I’d go with their version, but it was relatively easily solved. But this this was suddenly… all the money we’d ever earned was going to go in this guy’s bank account. And I just really had to fight it, you know?”
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