Macca: I was a frog killer
Ex-Beatle admits to secret slaughtering
HE was lambasted for his childfriendly Frog Chorus in the 80s, but Macca was actually Secret Frog Killer in his youth.
The man behind the much-maligned hit We All Stand Together is considered one of pop’s good guys and an advocate for animal welfare.
But young Sir Paul McCartney did some cruel things – particularly to amphibians.
He revealed: “I used to go out in the woods, and I killed a bunch of frogs and stuck them up on a barbed-wire fence.
“It was like a weird sort of thing that I kind of hated doing but thought: ‘I’m toughening myself up.’ I remember taking my brother there, once, to my secret place. And he was just horrified. Thought he had a nutter on his hands. And probably did. I was from Liverpool – you do that kind of s**t.” On course for No1 with new album Egypt Station, Macca seems keen to demystify some of his clean-cut image.
Recalling his wild Dave Grohl, Beatles tour days, he told the October issue of GQ: “There were sexual encounters of the celestial kind, and there were groupies.
“I’m just not into orgies. I don’t want anyone else there, personally. It ruins it!
“There was once when we were in Vegas where the tour guy, a fixer, said: ‘You’re going to Vegas, guys – you want a hooker?’
“We were all: ‘Yeah!’ And I requested two. And I had them, and it was a wonderful experience. But that’s the closest I ever came to an orgy.
“In the next room I think the guys might have ordered something else off the menu.
“I think John Lennon was a little more that way. I remember there was someone in a club that he’d met, and they’d gone back to the house because the wife fancied John, wanted to have sex with him and John discovered the husband was watching. That was called ‘kinky’ in those days.”
Read the full interview in GQ’s October issue, out September 18.