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Let It Be director Michael Lindsay-Hogg got to know The Beatles, and he once said that this would make him nervous to run into an angry Paul McCartney. Lindsay-Hogg explained that while the band had a squeaky-clean public image, they were much more complex in their private lives. He noted that they were surprisingly tough. Lindsay-Hogg said he’d want to steer clear if he knew someone like McCartney was mad at him.

‘Let It Be’ director Michael Lindsay-Hogg said Paul McCartney was tougher than he seemed

With Let It Be, Lindsay-Hogg captured The Beatles as they recorded songs for what would become their final studio album. They had been popular for years at this point. Lindsay-Hogg explained that he wanted to show the real people behind the veneer of fame.

“I wanted to show that they didn’t just turn up in their velvet suits and their glossy hair,...

John Lennon often sang about peace, but when he was growing up in Liverpool, people knew him as someone who was constantly getting into fights. He had a quick temper and felt that physical altercations were a way to establish himself among his peers. According to those who knew him in Liverpool before Beatles fame, Lennon would get into fights about even the most minor things.

John Lennon got into many physical fights in his life

When Lennon was growing up, he explained that he used physical altercations as a way to establish himself socially.

“I looked at all the hundreds of new kids [at Quarry Bank grammar school] and thought, ‘Christ, I’ll have to fight all my way through this lot,’ having just made it at Dovedale,” he said, per The Beatles Anthology. “There was some real heavies there. The first fight I got in, I lost. I lost my nerve when I got really hurt.