Joe Hagan, author of Jann Wenner’s biography, discusses his Paul interview; the type of repetitive questions Paul’s received over the years, Paul’s feelings on Rolling Stones negative coverage of him, and his legacy. And some other post-breakup things.
“I was asking him questions no one had ever bothered him to ask him. What’s your opinion on Rolling Stone and the coverage you got, and your relationship to its publisher? And it turned out the way Rolling Stones was betwixt between the Beatles breakup, and they were partisans for John Lennon, and John/Yoko used Rolling Stones as a platform to telegraph their independence from the Beatles — well, it turns out Paul had an opinion about that, and he felt strongly about it and he didn’t trust Rolling Stones...”
“Now he’s at this stage in his life where he’s really wanting to make clear what he believes his legacy is and should be, and where Rolling Stones plays into that, negatively, in his mind...”
“I found this polaroid in Jann Wenner’s archive… addressed to ‘Johann Weiner’… and inside was a polaroid of Paul, John, Linda, Keith Moon, May Pang… underneath on the polaroid was ‘how do you sleep??’ and it was sent to Jann… So I went to him and said tell me about this polaroid, and he unpacked the whole story about how he and John reconciled after the breakup… and Yoko had asked Paul to go as an emissary to John and say she would take him back…”
Towards the end of the interview, he looks at me and he’s like ‘This isn’t going to be a whitewash, is it?’ and I said ‘No,’ and he said ‘Good.’
