VIDEO: Paul McCartney Explains Fallout With Michael Jackson
Posted on Jul 16, 2009 @ 09:01AM
Paul McCartney discussed the highs and lows in his long history with the late Michael Jackson Wednesday on The Late Show with David Letterman.
McCartney, 67, recalled the first time the high-pitched voice of Jackson, who died June 25, was on the other end of a phone call. He said the late King of Pop meekly asked him, "Wanna make some hits?"-- and the result was a pair of smash singles, "Say, Say, Say," and "The Girl is Mine."
The pair stopped making music together when a rift grew because Jackson, who purchased the rights to the Beatles catalog, wouldn't re-negotiate a royalties fees with McCartney.
Said Paul: "He kept saying, 'That's just business, Paul, you know,' so I went, 'Yeah, it is,' and waited for a reply. But we never kind of got to it and I thought, 'Mmmmm,' so we kind of drifted apart. It was no big bust-up. We kind of drifted apart after that."
McCartney called the late Thriller singer "a lovely man" and "massively talented."
"And we miss him," Paul said.
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Oct 28, 2009 @ 13:08
tojm25823, usually when you are the lead singer you are the one in the limelight the most, so why is it different for Paul McCartney not to be in the limelight for the group.
Posted Fri, 07/17/2009 - 1:11am
Another thing Michael liked doing was not paying people for services that they did for him. It would take a lawsuit to get any money out of the idiot.
Posted Fri, 07/17/2009 - 1:10am
Michael was just like his father when it came to money, but if Michael make $10,000 in one night, you could expect him to spend $20,000 the next day. That is why his estate is in shambles.
Posted Fri, 07/17/2009 - 1:09am
It is unfortunate that MJ thought about business before considering friendship. I think that PM could have been a true friend to MJ. MJ did have some of his father's ways about him. As the saying goes "apples don't fall too far from the tree..."
Posted Thu, 07/16/2009 - 11:31am
Okay I am just going to say it... I never really got into the Beatles.
Posted Thu, 07/16/2009 - 10:55am
yeah right, as always paul mccartney thinking HE should be the only one in the limelight, just as he did with the beatles
Posted Thu, 07/16/2009 - 9:13am