Из интервью Пита Тауншенда журналу "Роллинг Стоун" в 1982 году.
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" ...Question: I’ve been listening to ‘Tug of War,’ Paul McCartney’s new album. It may be the best thing he’s done in a while—it sounds real nice. But it seems to have virtually nothing to do with rock & roll.
Pete: Do you think he ever really had anything to do with rock & roll? Well... No, he never did. You know, I could sit down and have a conversation with Paul about rock & roll, and we’d be talking about two different things. He’s got a couple of years on me, but it could be ten years, we’re so different. If he talks about rock & roll, I think he is talking about Little Richard. Whereas I don’t think Little Richard mattered, you know?
But one of the reasons I’m excited about Paul’s latest project is because it’s him and George Martin working together again; because he’s making a conscious effort to really get into serious record making, rather than pissin’ about in home studios—which I, for one, think he’s terrible at. When “Ebony and Ivory” came out, everybody was saying, “Christ, have you heard it? It’s terrible.” Well, I heard it, and I thought it was fuckin’ amazing! I thought, “That’s it, that’s McCartney!” He’s actually taken black and white, put a bit of tinsel around it, managed by hook or by crook to get Stevie Wonder to sing it, sit on black and white piano keys on a video. .. It’s wonderful! It’s gauche! It’s Paul McCartney!
I’ve always said that I’ve never been a big fan of the Beatles: to me, rock was the Stones, and before that Chuck Berry, and before that maybe a few people who lived in fields in Louisiana. But I can’t really include the Beatles in that. The Beatles were over with Herman’s Hermits. That’s not rock & roll. I was always very confused about the American attitude of thinking that the Beatles were rock & roll. Because they were such a big pop phenomenon. I’ve always enjoyed some of their stuff as light music, with occasional masterpieces thrown in. But with a lot of their things, you can’t dig very deep. Either you come up against Lennon’s deliberately evading what it is that he’strying to say, so it’s inscrutable, or Paul McCartney’s self- imposed shallowness, because he sees music as being, I mean, he’s a great believer in pop music, I think. But I wonder whether McCartney, perhaps, rests a little bit on the laurels of the Beatles..."
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