Paul McCartney likens Yoko Ono attending Beatles recordings to workplace ‘interference’

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“The White Album.”“John and Yoko had got together and that was bound to have an effect on the dynamics of the group,” McCartney explained on the podcast “McCartney: A Life in Lyrics.” “Things like Yoko being literally in the middle of the recording session [were] something you had to deal with.”“The idea was that if John wanted this to happen, then it should happen.

There’s no reason why not,” continued the “Yellow Submarine” performer. “Anything that disturbs us, is disturbing.”The British vocalist/songwriter would not let the subject be, adding that other members of the iconic group found the “disturbance” annoying. “We would allow this and not make a fuss,” continued McCartney. “And yet at the same time, I don’t think any of us particularly liked it.” “It was an interference in the workplace.

We had a way we worked,” elaborated the “Hey Jude” singer. “The four of us worked with George Martin. And that was basically it.

And we’d always done it like that. So not being very confrontational, I think we just bottled it up and just got on with it.”McCartney noted that working in the studio was part of their jobs. “It was the idea of the Beatles, it was also just this straight, practical thing of, ‘This was our job.’ This is what we did in life,” he said. “We were the Beatles.