Mick Jagger blasts Paul McCartney for claiming The Beatles were bigger than The Rolling Stones – The Sun

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MICK Jagger has blasted Paul McCartney’s claim that The Beatles were bigger than The Rolling Stones.

Macca suggested the Fab Four were slicker singers and that the Stones copied their style in the ’60s.

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Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger has blasted Paul McCartney’s claim that The Beatles were bigger than his bandCredit: Getty – Contributor

But Sir Mick pointed to his band’s huge stadium success.

He added: “There’s obviously no competition.

“He (Paul) is a sweetheart. I’m a politician.

“The big difference, though, is that The Rolling Stones is a big concert band in other decades and other areas when The Beatles never even did an arena tour.

“They broke up before the touring  business started for real…(in around 1969).”

Sir Paul, 77, recently told DJ Howard Stern’s radio show: “I love the Stones but The Beatles were better.

“Their stuff is rooted in the blues.

“Whereas we had a lot more influences.

Macca suggested the Fab Four were slicker singers and that the Stones copied their style in the ’60s

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Macca suggested the Fab Four were slicker singers and that the Stones copied their style in the ’60sCredit: Getty – Contributor

“Keith (Richards) once said to me, ‘You were lucky man. You had four singers in your band. We got one’.

“We started to notice that whatever we did the Stones sort of did it shortly thereafter.

“We went to America and had huge success, then the Stones went to America.

“We did Sergeant Pepper and the Stones did a psychedelic album. There was a lot of that.”

Sir Paul stressed there was mutual respect and he’s still close to Mick, 76, Keith, 76, Ronnie Wood, 72, and Charlie Watts, 78.

Sir Mick pointed to his band’s huge stadium success - with the band also just releasing their first new single in eight years

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Sir Mick pointed to his band’s huge stadium success – with the band also just releasing their first new single in eight yearsCredit: AFP or licensors

Hitting back, Sir Mick told Zane Lowe’s Apple Music show: “They (The Beatles) did that (Shea) stadium gig (1965). But the Stones went on.

“We started stadium gigs in the 1970s and are still doing them now.

“That’s the real big difference between these two bands.

“One band is unbelievably luckily still playing in stadiums and then the other band doesn’t exist.”

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The Fab Four - Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Ringo Starr and George Harrison

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The Fab Four – Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Ringo Starr and George HarrisonCredit: Michael Ochs Archives – Getty
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