Billy Joel has branded The White Album by The Beatles a “collection of half-assed songs”.
Billy Joel has offered his honest opinion of The Beatles’ self-titled album
The Piano Man was clearly not a fan of the legendary rock band’s 1968 self-titled double album – which featured classics Back In The USSR, Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da, Dear Prudence, Helter Skelter and While My Guitar Gently Weeps – and suggested they were “too stoned” or “didn’t care anymore” when they recorded the 30-track epic.
The songs were penned during a Transcendental Meditation retreat with the band’s late guru, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
Speaking on Bill Maher’s Club Random podcast, Billy said: “I hear it as a collection of half-assed songs they didn’t finish writing because they were too stoned, or they didn’t care anymore.
“I think they had fragments and they put them on the album.”
He suggested: “I think John [Lennon] was disassociating at that point.
“I think Paul [McCartney] was carrying the weight.
“Sometimes they were more prolific and sometimes they weren’t, and I hear that in some of those things.”
It marked the first time the wives and partners of the band – which also included Sir Ringo Starr and the late George Harrison – were allowed in the studio, with late frontman Lennon famously quipping that “the break-up of The Beatles can be heard on that album.”
Sir Paul McCartney has previously addressed critics of the album,…
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