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Did Paul Sabotage John's Songs? John Thought So

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Across the Universe was one of The Beatles' most inspired compositions — yet John Lennon never felt the recording did it justice. He placed the blame on Paul McCartney, accusing him of interfering with the song’s potential. Over time, John came to believe that Paul had a pattern of sabotaging his songs.

“I think subconsciously sometimes we — I say ‘we,’ though I think Paul did it more than the rest of us; Paul would … sort of subconsciously try and destroy a great song,” he said in 1980. He continued, “He tried to subconsciously destroy my songs, meaning that we’d play experimental games with my great pieces like ‘Strawberry Fields’ — which I always felt was badly recorded. Usually we’d spend hours doing little detailed cleaning-ups of Paul’s songs; when it came to mine, especially if it was a great song like ‘Strawberry Fields’ or ‘Across the Universe,’ somehow this atmosphere of looseness and casualness and experimentation would creep in. Subconscious sabotage. He’ll deny it, ‘cause he’s got a bland face and he’ll say the sabotage doesn’t exist. But this is the kind of thing I’m talking about, where I was always seeing what was going on.”

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