Here’s Why Phil Collins Hates Paul McCartney Despite Being a Bettle Fan

Paul McCartney has been a rock and roll legend since the early 1960s when The Beatles first rose to fame. When the band split up almost a decade later, McCartney went on to have a successful career as a solo artist and songwriter. He even continues to make music today at 81 years old and has no desire to stop any time soon!.

As successful as his career has been, Paul McCartney hasn’t had the best track record. In fact, the former Beatles bassist has been involved in many controversies over the years, like the time he sued his former bandmates from The Beatles and the time he was busted for drugs in Tokyo. In addition to this, McCartney has built himself a reputation for being difficult to work with.

While many fans claim that McCartney is a very nice and chill person, other celebrities don’t seem to think the same. In fact, this musician revealed that he hates McCartney because of how he treated him when they first met!.

The Beatles became incredibly successful in a short amount of time, so it wouldn’t have been surprising if they’d become some big-headed and entitled stars. However, in 1964, someone close to the band revealed that Paul McCartney was “the only one of the boys who’s had it [fame] go to his head.”

Since his Beatles days, McCartney has built himself a reputation for being extremely difficult to work with. For instance, his former bandmate, George Harrison, admitted that he hated working with McCartney because the musician would control every creative aspect of the band’s work, including music composition and arrangements, which left little to no room to experiment with their music.

Someone else who had some creative differences with McCartney was Fifty Shades of Grey director Sam Taylor-Johnson. Back in 2009, the director reached out to the former Beatles member to give her some advice for her John Lenon biopic, Nowhere Boy. McCartney requested Taylor-Johnson change the script because he didn’t think Lennon’s aunt's depiction was good, and the director complied.

However, the musician also had some concerns about Thomas Brodie-Sangster, the actor playing him in the movie. “You know what I’m slightly peeved about? My character, my actor, is shorter than John! And I don’t like that. I’m the same size as John, please. Put John in a trench or put me in platforms,” McCartney once told Seven (via Contact Music). Ultimately, McCartney refused an invite to the movie’s premiere over this.

With a career spanning over more than 50 years, Phil Collins has had his fair share of feuds with other celebrities, including a rumored feud with Peter Gabriel, whom he worked closely with in the 70s hit band Genesis. Many of these fights got resolved over the years, but the ‘You Can’t Hurry Love’ singer revealed that he still can’t stand Paul McCartney over something that happened almost two decades ago!

In a 2016 interview for The Times, Collins revealed that his first time meeting The Beatles legend was a disappointment, mainly because of the way McCartney treated him. Collins explained that he met McCartney and his then-wife Heather Mills at Buckingham Palace in the early 2000.

The musician admitted that, before that interaction, "McCartney was one of my heroes.”

He explained that that ended as soon he got to experience first hand how rude the former Beatles bassist truly is, “He has this thing when he's talking to you, where he makes you feel [like], 'I know this must be hard for you because I'm a Beatle. I'm Paul McCartney and it must be very hard for you to actually be holding a conversation with me.'"

In a recent interview, Phil Collins revealed that Paul McCartney reached out to him shortly after the ‘In the Air’ singer revealed how rude the Beatles star was to him when they first met.

“He’s been in touch about it because he was upset,” Collins told Billboard, revealing that he got an email from the legendary musician. “I certainly didn’t get any flowers from him; I got more of a ‘Let’s just get on with our lives.’ And I’m sorry he’s upset that I kinda said something nasty about him — well, it wasn’t really nasty. If people don’t tell people that sometimes their attitude could be a bit better then you’re not gonna get any better, y’know?”

Collins also revealed that, at first, he wasn’t sure whether to share that story, as he didn’t want to show McCartney in a bad light, “I think maybe I should just brush it under the carpet and forget about it and move on, but it did happen.”

But, ultimately, Collins decided to tell the truth and thought it would be a good opportunity to call out the Beatles star for his condescending attitude, hoping that he could change for the better.