Yahoo Lifestyle Adam Levine Says Paul McCartney Once Insulted Him — But Later Apologized
Take it from Adam Levine: There’s nothing like getting insulted by a former Beatle ― except maybe getting an apology months later.
Levine was nervous when he found out his band, Maroon 5, would be performing “All My Loving” and “Ticket To Ride” as part of the 2014 CBS special Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to the Beatles — because they’d be playing the classic songs while Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr sat in the audience.
“Listen, man: I told you I’ve been scared a handful of fucking times in my life. That was definitely one of them,” Levine admitted Thursday on Howard Stern’s show. “I was like, ‘Holy shit.’ I mean, I’m sorry, man, but you can be too cool, but not always. It’s Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney. Fuck off if you’re gonna try to be cool about that.”
Levine said McCartney came up to him later in the evening and said, “You know, we did it better.”
“I thought it was so funny,” Levine told Stern. “I cracked up and I was like, ‘No shit, you’re Paul McCartney. You’re the Beatles.’”
Levine’s feelings weren’t hurt by the diss, but he still appreciated what McCartney said when they saw each other a few months later.
“[McCartney’s] like, ‘Hey man, I just wanted to let you know if that bothered you … I’ve been thinking about this. I didn’t want to insult you or anything,’” Levine recalled. “It was something like that — like, ‘If I insulted you, I apologize.’ And I was like, ‘Oh my God. You’re good. Dude, you’re Paul fucking McCartney.’”
Levine said the second encounter “kind of shattered, in a great way, this whole thing about your heroes being who they are.”
“He’s a human being with a beating heart and a really beautiful soul who actually was thoughtful enough to even take that into account that maybe for some reason my feelings might’ve been hurt, but of course they were not,” Levine said.
You can see Levine discuss his interactions with McCartney below.
