The Beatles ALL hated Paul's favourite Silver Hammer Abbey Road track 'The worst ever'
The Fab Four were already at breaking point months before they started recording their eleventh and final studio album in 1969. Let It Be would follow in 1970 after the group had officially split, but that album accompanied a docu-film and much of it was recorded before Abbey Road. The Abbey Road sessions found a band riven with division and frustrations, while Lennon was also recovering from a terrifying car crash and Harrison had walked out more than once earlier in the year and was almost replaced. So, it seems rather fitting that McCartney’s song in question actually tells the history of a man going around killing people with a hammer.
The recording of Maxwell’s Silver Hammer drove the other three crazy and they were equally unimpressed with the track itself.
McCartney was determined that his first track on the album would be perfect and saw it as a potential single. The other three vehemently disagreed with his opinions and his methods.
Harrison said of that fractious period: “At that point in time, Paul couldn’t see beyond himself. He was on a roll, but … in his mind, everything that was going on around him was just there to accompany him. He wasn’t sensitive to stepping on other people’s egos or feelings.”
Lennon simply said: “I hated it. All I remember is the track – he made us do it a hundred million times.”
