MACCA’S SHOCKING CONFESSION

SIR Paul McCartney has admitted that The Beatles were total rubbish when they first started out.

And the pop icon said the band needed a lot of Help! to hit the big time.

He also recalled how they were so bad they were famously turned down by a record label before going on to become the biggest group ever.

Modest Macca, 67, told Xfm’s Ian Camfield: “We obviously weren’t that good. We were formulating it all.

“You wouldn’t have thought we were that great. You’d have turned us down if you were a record company.

“And they did – Decca turned us down flat.”

After the first rejection the Fab Four were signed up to EMI’s Parlophone label by producer George Martin, now 83.

They then headed to German city Hamburg to play a 48-night residency in a club. And Macca admitted that learning how to please punters in the bar helped them get their act together.

He said: “When we first went to Hamburg, there’d be no-one in the club.

“You’d see a couple of students, maybe a guy and his girlfriend, and they’d look in a bit tentatively, look up at the price of the beer, see it was too much and start walking out.

“So we’d go: ‘Come on, everybody, get back in here! It’s all happening!’

“So we learned to attract an audience. After a few weeks, we’d be really packing those clubs.

“It taught us that game of how to win over an audience.

“We learned loads of songs, so by the time we got back to England, we had quite a big repertoire.”

And the rest is history – Beatlemania had been born.

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