In spite of just how many problems the band was facing as they navigated their final years together, no issue more directly contributed to tensions within the band than the 1969 recording of "Maxwell's Silver Hammer."
Though McCartney believed the ballad possessed great artistic promise and personal meaning, the story of "Maxwell's Silver Hammer"'s recording has become the stuff of legend in the music industry.
"I hate it,” John Lennon bluntly said of "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" in a 1980 interview. “[McCartney] made us do it a hundred million times. He did everything to make it into a single and it never was and it never could've been… we spent more money on that song than any of them in the whole album."
"The worst session ever was 'Maxwell’s Silver Hammer,'” Starr remembered. “The worst track we ever had to record. It went on for f***ing weeks. I thought it was mad."
"If any single recording shows why The Beatles broke up, it's 'Maxwell's Silver Hammer,'" wrote music historian Ian MacDonald in Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties.
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