Why Paul McCartney apologized after insulting Adam Levine over Maroon 5s Beatles covers

Can’t buy me love.Adam Levine has revealed that Paul McCartney once apologized for “insulting” him after Maroon 5 covered two songs by The Beatles.The “Payphone” singer, 46, opened up about the incident on “The Howard Stern Show” on Wednesday.The initial encounter unfolded in 2014 after Maroon 5 covered “Ticket to Ride” and “All My Loving” during the CBS special “The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to The Beatles” with McCartney and Ringo Starr in the audience.“Listen, man.

I told you I’ve been scared a handful of f–king times in my life, that was definitely one of them,” Levine recalled.“I was like, ‘Holy s–t.’ I mean, I’m sorry man, but you can be too cool, but not always.

It’s Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney.F–k off if you’re gonna try to be cool about that.”Levine added that McCartney, 82, pulled him aside after Maroon 5’s performance to let him know that The Beatles “did it better.”“Paul kind of took me in close and he goes, ‘You know, we did it better,’” the “Maps” singer said.

“And I thought it was so funny.I cracked up and I was like, ‘No s–t, you’re Paul McCartney.’”It wasn’t until a few months later, during a party Levine was attending with his wife, Behati Prinsloo, that Macca apologized for “insulting” the Maroon 5 frontman.“He’s like, ‘Hey man, I just wanted to let you know if that bothered you… I’ve been thinking about this.

I didn’t want to insult you or anything,’” Levine remembered.“It was something like that, like, if I insulted you, I apologize.

And I was like, ‘Oh my God.You’re good.

Dude, you’re Paul f–king McCartney.’”The “She Will Be Loved” singer said that the music legend’s apology “shattered” his notion of “your heroes being who they are.”“It kind of shattered, in a great way, this whole thing about your heroes being who they are,” Levine explained.“He’s a human being with a beating he...