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Too Many People
1971 single by Paul & Linda McCartney
Too Many People
"Too Many People" is a song by Paul McCartney and his wife Linda McCartney from their 1971 album Ram. The song was issued as the B-side of the "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey" single. It is typically regarded as McCartney's response to his former Beatles bandmate John Lennon's contentious Rolling Stone interview (1970), in which he lambasted the Beatles' work and McCartney's character. The lines "Too many people preaching practices" and "You took your lucky break and broke it in two", as well the opening utterance "Piss off, cake", are the most pronounced attacks on Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono, and McCartney admitted that they were digs. However, he dismissed their significance—one time calling them "harmless", "little digs"—and insisted that nothing else on Ram referred to the couple. Some critics have ranked "Too Many People" as one of McCartney's best songs and drawn comparisons between it and the Beatles' work. McCartney released an instrumental version on Thrillington (1977). Lennon...
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