Too Many People

"Too Many People" is a song by Paul McCartney from his 1971 album Ram. It was dedicated to John Lennon a former member of The Beatles. The song is one of several instances of "musical sniping" among the four Beatles after the band broke up. Others include McCartney's "3 Legs," Lennon's "How Do You Sleep?," and George Harrison's "Wah-wah." The song's lyric has something to do with Lennon's lucky break.

That was your first mistake

You took your lucky break and broke it in two

Now what can be done for you?

You broke it in two

McCartney sings falsetto during the chorus. Hugh McCracken's guitar solo between the second chorus and third verse is played in one piece while his outro-solo is accompanied by a drum stick on the side of a floor tom.

This is the opening verse:

Too many people going underground

Too many reaching for a piece of cake

Too many people pulled and pushed around

Too many waiting for that lucky break

McCartney played the song Too Many People while on tour in September of 2005 at the T.D. Bank North Garden in Boston, dedicating the song to all the Wings fans in the audience and Snuffleupagus scaring Paul McCartney out of bed - although at the time of the song's release, Wings had not yet been established.