According to Paul McCartney all we need is love, not autographs.
The 79-year-old former Beatle revealed in a new interview with “Reader’s Digest” that he doesn’t like to take selfies or sign autographs for fans anymore because he finds it quite “strange.”
“‘Here,” he said. “Can I write your name down on the back of this till receipt please? We both know who I am.”
While the British rocker is happy to talk to fans, he doesn’t understand why people need his signature.
“What you’ve usually got is a ropey photo with a poor backdrop and me looking a bit miserable,” he continued. “Let’s chat, let’s exchange stories.”
McCartney’s sentiments echoed his bandmate Ringo Starr, who said in 2008 he would stop signing autographs because of his busy schedule.
“I’m warning you with peace and love. I have too much to do, so no more fan mail,” Starr, 81, said at the time. “And no objects to be signed. Nothing! Anyway, peace and love, peace and love.”
When Starr was asked by Howard Stern in 2018 about his decision, the drummer explained, “That was one angry moment. In New York, actually, I was signing scratch plates that they have on guitars, and someone said, ‘Have you seen on the internet?’ There’s a guitar with my signature on a scratch plate.”
“Someone had screwed one onto a s – – – y guitar and was selling it for three grand,” he continued. “And I said, ‘No.’ I only sign for charity now.”
Starr and McCartney’s days as a part of The Beatles will be immortalized in the upcoming Disney+ documentary “The Beatles: Get Back.”
The three-night miniseries will document how the group — comprised of Starr, McCartney, John Lennon and George Harrison — rose to fame in the British music scene in the 1960s and their breakup a decade later.
Filled with long-lost, restored archival footage from the Beatles’ old days and vintage band interviews, the first episode of the Peter Jackson-directed series drops Nov. 25.
The “The Lord of the Rings” director trudged through more than 60 hours of previously unseen footage and 150 hours of unheard audio for the docuseries. The unearthed films were found in Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s long-lost “Let It Be,” a 1970 television documentary chronicling the tension of the Fab Foursome as they wrote and rehearsed new songs for their final album and concert.