More often than not, other musicians through the years have had one-sided feuds with The Beatles more than anything. However, while the Fab Four were together, they did have some choice words for their contemporaries. A few of these might just surprise you. Let\u2019s take a look at just a handful of times The Beatles beefed with other famous bands and musicians, or were the subject of one-sided feuds.<\/p>\n
Phil Collins<\/p>\n
Phil Collins<\/a> making it to this list was admittedly a surprise to me when I first heard about it. This story has been told by Collins himself, so there might be some bias there worth taking with a grain of salt. Still, if true, this one\u2019s wild on Paul McCartney\u2019s part, even if it\u2019s one-sided on Collins\u2019 part.<\/p>\n According to Collins, he got to meet Paul McCartney in 2002. He grew up with The Beatles and idolized them. Sadly, after meeting McCartney at an event at Buckingham Palace, his opinion of McCartney changed dramatically.<\/p>\n \u201cI met him [McCartney] when I was working at the Buckingham Palace party back in 2002,\u201d said Collins in an interview with The Sunday Times<\/a>. \u201cMcCartney came up with Heather Mills and I had a first edition of The Beatles, by Hunter Davies, and I said, \u2018Hey, Paul, do you mind signing this for me?\u2019 And he said, \u2018Oh, Heather, our little Phil\u2019s a bit of a Beatles fan\u2019. And I thought, \u2018You f*ck, you f*ck\u2019. Never forgot it. [\u2026] He has this thing when he\u2019s talking to you, where he makes you feel, \u2018I know this must be hard for you because I\u2019m a Beatle. I\u2019m Paul McCartney and it must be very hard for you to actually be holding a conversation with me.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Blood, Sweat & Tears<\/p>\n John Lennon didn\u2019t often listen to popular mainstream music after the Fab Four came to an end. There\u2019s nothing wrong with that, certainly. But on occasion, he would check out what was happening on the charts. And in a 1971 interview, he was pretty forthright about a band he didn\u2019t care for: Blood, Sweat & Tears.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t like the Blood, Sweat & Tears sh*t,\u201d Lennon told Rolling Stone<\/a>. \u201cI think all that is bullsh*t. [\u2026] Rock \u2018n\u2019 roll is going like jazz, as far as I can see, and the bullsh*tters are going off into that excellentness which I never believed in and others going off.\u201d<\/p>\n Ouch.<\/p>\n The Hollies<\/p>\n I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve heard this story before, but I have to admit, I was surprised to hear how much vitriol George Harrison had for the band The Hollies.<\/p>\n