Beatles bassist Paul McCartney sitting at an outdoor table while wearing a floral-patterned shirt and smoking a cigarette in 1967.

Some of the songs Paul McCartney wrote for The Beatles White Album drove his bandmates crazy. The other three universally hated “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” with a passion, especially since Paul requested they keep working on it. The Fab Four did dozens of takes of the game-changing “Helter Skelter,” a song Paul wrote because he was jealous about The Who’s bragging.

Beatles bassist Paul McCartney sitting at an outdoor table while wearing a floral-patterned shirt and smoking a cigarette in 1967.
Beatles bassist Paul McCartney | Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images

Paul McCartney admits he was jealous of The Who when he wrote ‘Helter Skelter’

The Beatles’ self-titled 1968 record (commonly known as the White Album) had everything except the kitchen sink. Twisted blues/surf-rock/R&B hybrid on “Back in the U.S.S.R.” The Jamaican dancehall-esque tone of “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da.” Gentle folk on “Julia” and “Blackbird.”

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