I find direct quotes to back up claims work at least with some of the people, though unfortunately, as you say, not with those so set in their opinions that they won't listen anyway. Incidentally, "Living in the Material World" contains another great (and funny) quote I could have used, this one from Ringo, about how he has this image of them lazing in the sun in the suburbs and Paul inevitably calling to suggest a new project (be it a new record, film, Apple...) "because he is a workoholic!" Said with affection and accuracy.
The irony is that if you ask the same fans whether they'd rather not have had the Beatles records from Pepper onwards, I dare say they would deny this. And if Paul hadn't initialized all those records, they would not exist.
Ah, and another John quote that comes to mind is the one where he explains the "the Walrus was Paul" line from Glass Onion: "
That's me, just doing a throwaway song, à la Walrus, à la everything I've ever written. I threw the line in, 'the walrus was Paul', just to confuse everybody a bit more. It could have been 'the fox terrier is Paul'. I mean, it's just a bit of poetry. I was having a laugh because there'd been so much gobbledigook about Pepper - play it backwards and you stand on your head and all that. At that time I was still in my love cloud with Yoko. I thought, 'Well, I'll just say something nice to Paul, that it's all right and you did a good job over these few years, holding us together'.
(He put it similarly in the Playboy interview from 1980, though minus the "nice job" line: The line [the walrus was Paul] was put in partly because I was feeling guilty because I was with Yoko and I was leaving Paul. It's a very perverse way of saying to Paul: 'here, have this crumb, this illusion, this stroke - because I'm leaving.')
The irony is that if you ask the same fans whether they'd rather not have had the Beatles records from Pepper onwards, I dare say they would deny this. And if Paul hadn't initialized all those records, they would not exist.
Ah, and another John quote that comes to mind is the one where he explains the "the Walrus was Paul" line from Glass Onion: "
That's me, just doing a throwaway song, à la Walrus, à la everything I've ever written. I threw the line in, 'the walrus was Paul', just to confuse everybody a bit more. It could have been 'the fox terrier is Paul'. I mean, it's just a bit of poetry. I was having a laugh because there'd been so much gobbledigook about Pepper - play it backwards and you stand on your head and all that. At that time I was still in my love cloud with Yoko. I thought, 'Well, I'll just say something nice to Paul, that it's all right and you did a good job over these few years, holding us together'.
(He put it similarly in the Playboy interview from 1980, though minus the "nice job" line: The line [the walrus was Paul] was put in partly because I was feeling guilty because I was with Yoko and I was leaving Paul. It's a very perverse way of saying to Paul: 'here, have this crumb, this illusion, this stroke - because I'm leaving.')
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