JUST NOW: At 83, Paul McCartney FINALLY SETS the Records Straight -“I’ve carried this for too long:… In a rare and emotional moment, the former Beatle opened up about a chapter he has never fully addressed – until now. His voice wavered as he revealed details that had weighed on him for decades, surprising even those closest to him. for fans who thought they knew everything, this quiet admission changes everything….. and the ripple effects of what he finally said are only just beginning to surface.

It’s been more than 50 years since The Beatles disbanded, and Paul McCartney wants to set the record straight: “It’s always looked like I broke up The Beatles, and that wasn’t the case,” he says.

McCartney traces the rumor to the 1970 documentary Let It Be, which followed the bandmates as they wrote, rehearsed and recorded the songs for their final album. The film and the subsequent press coverage created a narrative that pointed to Paul as the instigator of the breakup, and the story was so pervasive that McCartney even began to doubt himself.

“I kind of bought into that a little bit,” he says. “And although I knew it wasn’t true, it affected me enough for me to just be unsure of myself.”

Now, the new documentary Get Back, releasing Nov. 25 on Disney+, revisits that period, drawing on previously unused footage to tell a different story. McCartney says seeing the new footage has helped him reframe his own story.

“We’re just doing goofy things and everyone’s behaving very normally and in a very friendly manner,” he says. “The film is really great for me, because I see me and John Lennon] messing around pretending to be ventriloquists instead of being sensible and singing the song.”

In addition to the documentary, McCartney has a new, two-volume set of books called The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present. It’s a collection of his lyrics and the stories behind them, starting with songs he wrote before The Beatles and ending with songs from his latest album, McCartney III, which was released in 2020.

McCartney describes writing songs with Lennon as a “kind of pingpong,” in which the two men would go back and forth with melodies and lyrics.