Comments on: I’m The Greatest

By: Teddy Salad

Teddy Salad — Mon, 03 Jul 2017 16:00:57 +0000

Likewise with “my wife and kids.” Ringo was still married to Maureen at the time this was recorded for his album and they had three children.

By: Teddy Salad

Teddy Salad — Mon, 03 Jul 2017 15:57:12 +0000

I suspect that the Billy Shears line is one that John rewrote for Ringo and not original or referring to himself.

By: Forest Rogers

Forest Rogers — Sun, 28 Feb 2016 03:50:39 +0000

Do you think John was in a way trying to help Ringo sell music because we all know how successful Ringo was after The Beatles. Let’s be honest. Maybe that line about Billy Shears was to bring in the Paul is Dead fanatics to buy the record for Ringo. Why would John write in the song that he himself is Billy Shears? To add on more controversy over the Paul is dead thing or that John himself felt “fake” at the time. Very weird lyric I must say because it doesn’t fit in with the other Paul is dead references at the time other songs John was writing clearly about Faul.

By: Julian

Julian — Wed, 13 Nov 2013 14:50:19 +0000

Yep, and the electric piano seems to play the intro chords to John’s “Remember”!

By: carlos

carlos — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 22:12:39 +0000

Amazing your refrence Tom, thanks. It seems to me that in the last part of the song they play something like George´s “Ï dig love” don´t you think so ?

By: tom

tom — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 03:01:34 +0000

The beauty of Lennons tunes is they can be interpeded different ways. At first I thought the song was typical Lennon ego but I read that he said the song was about Paul as he wanted to be viewed as his equal. It makes sense now based on a couple lines. John didn’t have a wife and kids he only had one child at the time and the line my name is Billy Shears is a refferance to the Paul is dead replacement. Also on the Ringo cover there is an eggman above Paul. Even after they broke up they still left messages

By: Julian

Julian — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 16:49:59 +0000

In the last part of the song which is descending/ascending scale, in the descending part I think that Billy Preston plays the piano pattern from John’s song “Remember”. That’s obviously a coincidence, because Billy’s part was overdubbed later. What a coincidence it is!