A Very Telling Assessment Of Paul By Brian Epstein

I was reading the KRLA Beat teenzine of January 29, 1966 and came across a quote from Brian Epstein talking about our Paul's personality.  (KRLA Beat, if you haven't read some of my other posts about the paper, was a fan magazine published between 1964 and 1968 by the then Los Angeles pop music station KRLA that had features about pop musicians.)

Here's Brian Epstein's quote:
     "Probably the most changed Beatle.  He's mellowed in character and thought.  A fascinating character and a very loyal person.  Doesn't like changes very much.  He probably more than the others, finds it more difficult to accept that he is playing to a cross section of the public and not just to teenagers, or sub-teenagers, whom he feels are the Beatles' audience."  [my emphasis]

In other posts, I've talked about my theory that there was a power elite that was directing and manipulating The Beatles.  My theory is that Paul was resisting efforts to Pied Piper (so to speak) the Baby Boomer generation toward acceptance of widespread drug use and free (and diseased) love to begin with.  If the manipulators could get their foot in the door of morally degrading the massive Baby Boom generation, they thought, no doubt, they could do anything.

Paul didn't like changes very much and Paul was concerned with keeping The Beatles' teeny bopper audience and not taking on--what turned out to be--the slightly older, Sgt. Pepper-era, album rock fans that the Faul-and-Fohn new, new Beatles of late 1966 played to.  So said Brian Epstein.

But Paul was also aware that a changed group of Beatles singing to the larger audience might draw in some of the maturing young Beatle fans and, again, he apparently wanted none of it.

Epstein also said that Paul had mellowed in character and thought.  But not so much that when The Beatles were up against a psychedelic wall, Paul would not put up a monumental fight against forced changes.  Paul did fight.