Paul McCartney, RAM Archive Collection 2012 And it was directly aimed at John, but it was about our relationship at that time, and me feeling that I didn’t need to be preached at. So in the song “Too Many People”, I started off “Too many people preaching practices”. I did feel like he was, you know, preaching a little bit about what everyone should do, how they should live their lives, and I felt – at the time – that some of it was a bit hypocritical. “Too Many People” was really a message to John across the airwaves. So that one got to be a thing about them. Suddenly it was “You should do this.” It was just a bit the wagging finger, and I was pissed off with it. The whole tenor of the Beatles thing had been, like, each to his own. And I felt we didn’t need to be told what to do. But the first line is about “too many people preaching practices.” I felt John and Yoko were telling everyone what to do. Like, a piece of cake becomes piss off cake, And it’s nothing, it’s so harmless really, just little digs. “ Too Many People” opens with the words “ Piss off,” which McCartney eventually admitted was a direct attack on Lennon. Paul McCartney, Playboy, 1984Īt the time it was surely an under-statement to say that there was “ one tiny little reference” to John Lennon in this song. Oh, there was “Yoko took your lucky break and broke it in two. There wasn’t anything else on it that was about them.
I mean, that was a little dig at John and Yoko. In one song, I wrote, “Too many people preaching practices,” I think is the line. He’d been doing a lot of preaching, and it got up my nose a little bit. I was looking at my second solo album, Ram, the other day and I remember there was one tiny little reference to John in the whole thing. The lyrics were interpreted as targeting John Lennon and Yoko Ono, which Paul acknowledged years later. Aside from the songs above, the songs listed below were commissioned specifically for the game.Īside from all songs above, the songs listed below are winners of various song contests, such as the Project Sekai NEXT Song Contest.Ī song that you want to listen to in Spring.ĭuring the third episode of Project Sekai Colorful Broadcasting Station, twenty songs requested by fans were tallied by the staff and shown onscreen.“ Too Many People” is the opening song of Paul and Linda McCartney’s 1971 album “ Ram“.
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