Paul McCartney Vs Yoko Ono - Handbags At Dawn
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October 18th, 2005 at 15:30 by Stuart Heritage
There’s nothing that we like more here at hecklerspray than watching a couple of knackered old pensioners bicker for 40 years over the body of a dead Scouser.
Thank God, then, for Paul McCartney and Yoko Ono.
Ever since Yoko ambiguously insulted Paul at the Q Awards last week, it’s been a veritable verbal cockfight between the pair of them.
It’s no secret that Paul McCartney (CDs) and Yoko Ono don’t really get along.
And their feud was recently revived when Yoko attended the Q Awards on
behalf of John Lennon. Accepting the award, she said:
“John was very human. In the middle of the night he would say, ‘They
always cover Paul’s songs, they never cover mine’. I said to him,
‘You’re a good song writer, it’s not June-with-spoon that you write.
You’re a good singer too. Most musicians would be a bit nervous about
covering your songs’.”
Paul McCartney, acting as the elder statesman of rock, chose to keep a
dignified silence in response to Ono’s insult. Yeah, right. In fact,
he’s replied with an even more concrete dig:
"I don’t take any notice of her. She’s John’s wife so I have to respect
her for that, but I don’t think she’s the brightest of buttons. She’s
said some particularly daft things in her time. Her life is dedicated
to putting me down but I attempt very strongly not to put her down."
Notice that Paul’s method of not taking any notice of Yoko involves
getting really quite shitty with her. He’s even gone to the trouble of performing the song
Too Many People from his Ram album in concert for the first time this
week. Lyrically, the theme of Too Many People is roughly like this "Ner ner
ner-ner ner! John Lennon is a great big twat and his tiny wife is too!
My trainers are ace and your trainers are shit, you fanny!"
Who do you think would win in a fight between Yoko Ono and Paul McCartney? Not an
argument or a verbal fight - we mean an actual fight. With no more than one non-projectile weapon. Leave your
comments below.
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October 18th, 2005 at 7:53 pm
You’re an idiot.
Yoko left Johnny boy to rot in a haze of drugs for ten years during which time she and he lobbed ridicule on Paul as he proceded to live life, make records and raise children.
Her best Idea was the Beatles worst idea.
Her claim to fame is that she has Lennons money,…that’s all, and really, that shows how screwed up on drugs he was.
October 18th, 2005 at 9:59 pm
I agree with the previous post: You’re a complete idiot.
That cunt Yoko has been slagging Paul for years and for no apparent reason. I’m glad Paul is finally fighting back; it’s time he shows his true feelings about her.
John Lennon was great but the fact that he was with Yoko mars his mistique a bit for me.
Isn’t it a bit tired to still talk about John being “The Great One”? Does one really think they’re getting instant “street cred” by saying that Paul sucks and John is God? Nothing like a hack writer trying to make himself look hip by dissing Paul. It’s really quite silly.
Who’s next on your list, tough guy? Sting?
Why can’t people accept that they BOTH wrote brilliant AND sucky songs. Neither was better than the other.
Get the fuck over it.
October 19th, 2005 at 12:39 am
john and yoko jewels state of the art, always did there homework,designed an entire environment of peace.
October 19th, 2005 at 5:30 am
You tell`em girl. yoko sucks give a listen to don`t worry kyoko. the fact that John layed awake at night thinking of Paul proves that John respected and loved Paul.All those great Beatle songs have Lennon /Mccartney as the writers not lennon/ono or lennon/suckass critic.Plus Paul is alive and rocking like he`s 25 again that man is a god
October 19th, 2005 at 2:14 pm
Give it a rest hecklerspray. If it weren’t for Paul Sgt. Pepper, the White Album, and Let it Be might never have seen the light of day given that Yoko and had in a drug-induced “haze”. Before you try to re-write history, do a little homework. Ignorance of facts is not very becoming!
October 19th, 2005 at 3:43 pm
Yoko Ono. Part witch, part bitch, but mostly just rich, if it weren’t for John’s moolah, she would have evaporated into the 80’s quietly. Paul did the BIG deed, had a family, loved his wife and raised his kids, what else is there in our short time on earth? Yoko had an induced delivery of Sean on John’s birthday, then set up shop in the office downstairs while Japanese nannies took care of Sean and John became a zombie. Music aside, I judge a person on what they DO. Paul is right: In the end the love you take is equal to the love you make. I’m putting that on my headstone someday. ha ha. Whatever, hope Paul keeps mooning and spooning, and letting all of us in on it. Cheers!
October 19th, 2005 at 4:02 pm
Have you people even read the article properly? Nowhere in the article is Paul’s music slagged off, nor does it take Yoko’s side or rewrite history. It points out the obvious contradiction between McCartney saying he doesn’t want to put her down, before doing exactly that.
Twats.
October 19th, 2005 at 11:57 pm
..nicely said GRC. i hate it when people don’t read things properly and then proceed to throw insults. anyway, yoko is a certified loonie and paul has the face of a bloodhound. i’m not a fan of either at the end of the day, but fight between them. i like the sound of that..
October 20th, 2005 at 4:25 pm
Yoko Ono is the most opportunistic un-talented person in history. She lured John with drugs and mental games. She put down everything the beatles did at one time or the other. Yet, she is rich because of them. What a travesity.
She is undoubtedly the most hated figure in history that did not commit murder or other sick crimes.
October 20th, 2005 at 5:54 pm
Yeah, Rocco, I too am astonished that that talentless hack is still getting press. She never did anything of value — just mind-screw a great musician until his band imploded, he drugged out, and then she ran hiding in the Dakota while he was getting shot to death. She even had him cremated after he’d specifically said he wouldn’t want that. I sometimes wonder if she hired Chapman. I think once she realized she could make a good living being the official Widow of John Lennon and selling his art and his image, she became more interested in inheriting his money than inspiring his music. It’s a shame we’ll never know what great music he’d have created without her as a distraction and “advisor/collaborator.” She never had any talent for art or for music, just for keeping John in a haze, which was apparently lucrative enough. Paul has every right to still hate her for the damage she did to John and the band. And for a “songwriter” like Yoko to dismiss PAUL MCCARTNEY’S songwriting sounds like pure jealousy to me! Next she’ll start painting stick figures and calling DaVinci “a hack” in the press. She is seriously deluded. Paul, like John, is seriously talented, and it’s a shame they ever had to deal with an idiot like Yoko.
October 20th, 2005 at 9:09 pm
I agree, you’re all correct. I am an idiot.
October 20th, 2005 at 9:11 pm
I didn’t mean it.
October 20th, 2005 at 10:01 pm
How can people say such things about Yoko, none of us know her, its wrong to write such evil things, Yoko more or less helped lennon write the most amazing songs ever, the song “imagine” was inspired by her book grapefruit in which she wrote “imagine the clouds driping, dig a hole in your garden to catch them in” along with many others in what she use the term ‘imagine’. It was enough to inspire john to write some amazing songs, she co-wrote them with him, shes an amazing lady and one day history will judge her as just that. Paul wil go down in history as an amazing person as well,such a shame they can’t just put there problems aside seen as there both getting very old now.. any how as Yoko once said “just love one another till we evaperate, the rest inbetween is just foreplay to get to that” peace and love to you all .xxxxxxxxxx
October 21st, 2005 at 12:24 am
Adam’s right. We don’t know Yoko. John loved her, which says a lot if you love John. This tittle tattle spat between her and Macca is what it is, but the world keeps spinning. Get over yourselves.
October 21st, 2005 at 2:18 am
think about it war is over if you want it . its about peace not all that ono and paul xxxx lenno showed us more than we well ever know , someone or 2 or 3 just never listen to the whole message, all they were saying is give peace a chance.
October 23rd, 2005 at 7:41 pm
Yoko pursued someone’s husband, someone who was a faithful wife, she separated a father from a son while worldwide whining that her daughter had been taken from her (I wonder why?) then hid behind the persona the fake persona of “peace” what kind of peace did she actually affect? She did not do justice to Julian and she isn’t fit to wipe Paul Mc Cartney’s shoes. She manipulated and controlled John Lennon, ruined his live both personally and professionally. The first sin is to separate a person (John) from his loved ones. Not to mention take his money from him. No decent woman chases a married man.
October 24th, 2005 at 12:43 am
listen to woman/ by JL.
October 27th, 2005 at 6:23 am
listen to run for your life / rubbersoul.when john was choking may pang in a hot tub in la what was the name he screamed out ?? yoko !!! he was so drunk he thought it was yoko he was choking..
October 27th, 2005 at 9:42 pm
I agree with the lack of decency on yoko’s part. She doesn’t have the decency to leave a married man alone. Shows she is just desperate for attention, which john had brought her. talk about riding high off some one elses wave.
November 9th, 2005 at 10:41 pm
Everyone please read “John” by his first wife Cynthia… wow. It really touched me and Yoko is a HUGE witch.. she never really bothered me before, but this is from a woman who actually knows her! …. p.s how inconsiderate of yoko to be releasing a book this month when Cynthia’s just came out, she can’t handle the competiton….. arg. witch makes me mad.
November 10th, 2005 at 11:59 am
Cynthia is hardly going to be Yoko’s biggest fan is she?
November 20th, 2005 at 9:22 pm
I agree that Yoko is probably one of the most despised persons in history. I find her so remarably loathsome, I can barely formulate adequate words to describe it. She is completely and utterly talentless, and always demanded to ride on John’s shirttails. She completely ruined him. But of course, he allowed it. I cannot believe that any thinking individual would ever give her even the time of day. And a side note, she is just about one of the UGLIEST humans I have ever seen.
December 1st, 2005 at 5:33 am
I find it funny that you think Paul would want to insult his diseased friend at all. He’s even said as much that he has no interesting in doing so.
“Ner ner ner-ner ner! John Lennon is a great big twat and his tiny wife is too! My trainers are ace and your trainers are shit, you fanny!”
.. Yes that’s it exactly.. you moron. I don’t honestly think Paul McCartney is that bored.
December 5th, 2005 at 12:43 am
Yoko-bitch, but had good impact on John( his solo work started sucking when they sepparated)
John-shouldve never married cynthia
as he was far from faithful
Paul- power hungry asshole
they all were douche bags, but they are all brilliant artists, so as Paul’s mama told him “Let it Be”
December 5th, 2005 at 7:13 am
I just want to say that john lennon was, is, and will remain the greatest artist of all time. paul is one of the greatest musicians that ever graced the earth. it took the both of them to create the beatles and the both of them to destroy the beatles. p.s fuck yoko ono she is a piece of fucking shit cunt and it’s a shame that chapmans bullet didn’t hit her in her big ugly dumb cunt head. I also feel that if Lennon was still alive he would have realized what a cunt yoko really was and would have kicked her out of his life because he ultimately was smarter than that. She just happened to catch him during a naive period for him. by the way did i mention yoko is a cunt and I feel that on Dec. 8,2005 she should be executed via chineese death torture.
December 31st, 2005 at 2:24 pm
If only Chapman shot a little up and over to the right, he would have hit the person that needed it most. JUNE WITH THE SPOON MY NARDS! Listening to that silly little woman sing is much like
hearing a fellow tune up a banjo, using a kazoo.
My BEATLES RANKING
PAUL - The most mass appeal & statesman like
Ringo - He’s talented & he does
educational things with kids
GEORGE - He was very talented but introverted
John Lennon - mega-talented,
he had no reason to
be jealous of Paul,
NONE
he cared quite a bit
about his causes.
sometimes too much, I
could have done
without
the naked cover. He
has had influences
on other musicians
over the years
and you can still
hear it even
to this day.
The only thing negative I would say about John, he needed to put
down water bong for five minutes
and reconsider about shacking up with that slow train wreck of a girlfriend!!! He also should have
shown up on SNL — NBC when he and
Paul were invited via LIVE TV.
They were seconds away from going, and then Yoko Bonehead called.
BTW, HAVE A HAPPY 2006
Yours truly,
DOPE-O NO-NO
January 24th, 2006 at 8:05 am
I’m a radio dee-jay from Boston Ma USA.I am also an unrepentant Anglophile,but that’s neither here nor there.The Beatles are my particular specialty.I visited Strawberry Fields and the Dakota building to check out the crime scene on December 8th,2005 (the 25th anniversary of his murder).I highly recommend the website Rethinking John Lennon’s Assassination.com. Being at the Dakota was extremely emotional for me,and I just stood there and stared at the exact spot where he had been shot. A guy next to me was playing Dear Prudence on his guitar,which is ironic because Mia Farrow and Prudence lived in the building next door to the Dakota. I was almost interviewed by the BBC where the crowd was gathered. Yoko came out to lay a wreath earlier in the day and you could see candles in her window. You fellows are all correct. She was, and is, an evil,conniving,manipulative cunt.She stalked John as a struggling artist in London and threatened to commit suicide if John didn’t finance her bullshit with the Beatles money. He complied.She also got him hooked on heroin as well and did many other things to sabotage his career and turn him into a zombie recluse who wouldn’t leave his room.There is also a rumor that she was a practicing Satanist who deliberately induced Sean’s birth on October 9th, 1975 (John’s 35th birthday)because there is an occult belief that if the son is born on his father’s birthday he will inherit the father’s soul upon his death. Et tu, Yoko?
Cheers!
Ernie K.
February 3rd, 2006 at 11:59 pm
People,
I do not appreciate your comments about me and my… situation with Paul. What Paul and I had was not as big as you are making. Paul and I are both peace loving people that love life and eachother! So please stop commenting on us because all we are saying is “GIVE PEACE A CHANCE”
Thank You All,
Yoko Ono
March 8th, 2006 at 10:08 pm
You and Paul did a lot of money with “free as a bird” and “real love”. Keep that money rolling and give Paul more material to reconciliate with John’s thoughts. They will always be a team, I really loved the lennon-mcccartney songs but lennon’s or mccartney’s. They’re just a poetry equilibrium, they’re nothing without each other, they’re need each other. Is a pain John’s not with us. This forum just make him left.
August 17th, 2006 at 10:43 pm
To be honest I agree about Yoko. John was a fantastic musician, with wit and intelligence, and then he met Yoko Ono and it all went down the pan. Not that he ever stopped me a great musician but Yoko just got in the way, then got him addicted to heroine and proceeded to take over his life and change him as a person(which really pisses me off). Paul may not have been a saint, but the Lennon-McCarteny partnership was a thousand times better than Lennon-Ono, and if I had to choose between Paul and Yoko I”d be backing Paul 100 %.
December 8th, 2006 at 4:39 pm
Paul could take Yoko in a fight, easily. Not so sure about his ability to trounce Heather Mills. That woman is seriously deranged and nothing is past her doing.
May 1st, 2007 at 10:46 pm
I honestly hate Yoko Ono. She destroyed John and stole his money.
May 2nd, 2007 at 12:30 am
Christ - all this name calling and revisiting and all we need to know is - who would win in a fight.
Yoko. Because she has John’s soul in a jar and would use crazy Satan ninja shit. There’d be a little Paul doll riddled with pins tipped with menstrual blood and Paul would have a right stomach ache before the fight and he’d go down to her witchcraft.
But he’d get in a couple good blows with one of Heather’s left over legs before he did.
And lying dead, the crowd would begin to sing “Yesterday” a capella, bringing him back around. He’d sit up, crack his neck, and then he’d surprise Yoko, slicing off her head and holding it up to the chanting crowd.
Which would cure some of illness and cause others to wither and die, a phenomenon that would go unexplained for centuries.
July 10th, 2007 at 12:37 am
Dear All
Two fabulous artists both supported by fabulous women. John wrote most of what the Beatles published - lyricist and somg writer - Paul took a lot of credit but one only need look at what they did after to see what they eaach stood for.
July 10th, 2007 at 10:54 am
I’m NOT going to take sides HOWEVER I will say this for Paul. His kids went to ordinary schools and I respect him for that.
September 21st, 2007 at 5:25 pm
Lennon vs. McCartney is a valid debate (one that McCartney wins by the tiniest of margins), and when John criticizes Paul, he’s one of the few people with the artistic credentials to do so.
Yoko Ono? Not so much. Paul is a better singer, a better songwriter, and IMO a better person then her.
November 9th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
These useless old British rock star ultra-millionaire pukes like McCartney and their ongoing soap operas have about as much to contribute to humanity as a heaping mound of waste from a lead smelting plant. They can all collectively suck my dick!
August 6th, 2008 at 2:53 am
Gregg, you’re an f-ing idiot. Chances are that if these, and I quote, “useless old British rock star ultra-millionaire pukes like McCartney ” hadn’t ever done anything ever, you probably wouldn’t have been born. I know that I wouldn’t have.
September 2nd, 2008 at 12:41 am
the beatles rock! 4sho
October 8th, 2008 at 4:46 am
Yoko really is one of the worst bitches of all time. A more deluded, talentless and self absorbed person would be hard to find.
But going back to the theme of this post, I really do think she deserves an award for bitchiness. Maybe earning something in her own right, rather than leeching of other others would change her - nah I doubt it (no brain there to appreciate it).
Anyway my entry for her all time bitchiness award would be denying Lennon’s first son any keepsake of his father after he died. Julian had to buy something at a public auction - low, just isn’t a big enough word to describe that sort of cruelty.
November 2nd, 2008 at 7:24 am
anyone thouht about how horrible she was to john’s first son, Julian?
that bitch made him isolated from his father and after his death took his words for her own public statement didn’t include him in any arrangements and pretended they were close. thennnn she decided to not give hm was was rightfully his such as John’s journals which he has clearly stated were intended for julian. when they were almost given to him she had people sued for it. so Julian still to this day hasn’t been able to have any access to the journals which his father wanted him to have. yoko bitch face has made it impossible for him to ever have a connection with his father.
hate her