Including John Lennon’s wife Yoko Ono who claimed the lead singer did “nothing” in the band.
Paul recalled: “I remember reading an article, an interview with Yoko, who, OK, she was a big John supporter, I get that, but in this article she goes, ‘Paul did nothing. All he ever did was book studio.’
“And I’m going, ‘Err? No…” And then John does this famous song, ‘How Do You Sleep?’, and he’s going, ‘All you ever did was Yesterday…’ And I’m going, ‘No, man.’
“But then you hear the stories from various angles and apparently people who were in the room when John was writing that, he was getting suggestions for the lyrics from Allen Klein.”
Read the full feature in the September issue of British GQ available via digital download and on newsstands Friday 7th August.