Paul McCartney recalls final phone call with John Lennon before his…
Paul McCartney will never overlook the second he discovered John Lennon was murdered.
“It was just too crazy,” McCartney, 83, wrote in his new oral historical past ebook, “Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run,” about discovering out from his supervisor “early in the morning” on Dec. 8, 1980 that his former Beatles bandmate was gunned down by Mark David Chapman in New York City.
“We just said what everyone said; it was all blurred,” McCartney wrote, per Us Weekly. “It was the same as the Kennedy [assassination]. The same horrific moment, you know. You couldn’t take it in. I still haven’t taken it in. I don’t want to.”
Paul McCartney attends the 2024 MusiCares Person of the Year event. Getty Images for The Recording Academy
John Lennon on the seashore in Cannes, France in 1971. Getty Images
McCartney recalled that he and his fellow Beatles, Ringo Starr and George Harrison, all went again to the studio after Lennon died.
“Nobody could stay home with that news,” the “Every Night” singer said. “We all had to go to work and be with people we knew. Couldn’t bear it. We just had to keep going. So, I went in and did a day’s work in a kind of shock.”
The Beatles on stage at the Saville Theatre in London in 1967. Getty Images
Paul McCartney’s new ebook, “Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run.”
While the Beatles dramatically broke up in 1970, McCartney famous that he and Lennon made amends before the capturing.
“That is a nice thing, a consoling factor for me, because I do feel it was sad that we never actually sat down and straightened our differences out,” said McCartney. “But fortunately for me, the last phone conversation I ever had with him was really great, and we didn’t have any kind of blowup.”
John Lennon and Paul McCartney arriving at London Airport in May 1968. Getty Images
“One of the great blessings in my life is that we made up,” McCartney also wrote. “We’d loved each other all our lives, and we’d had our arguments and we’d called each other names. But it had never got any more serious than two brothers in a family.”
The musician added that the duo, who had been childhood mates, had a “very happy conversation” about their households, including Lennon’s son Sean, before Lennon’s dying.
Paul McCartney performs during the thirty sixth Annual Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony in 2021. Getty Images for The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
John Lennon in a automotive in October 1967. Getty Images
McCartney’s daughter, Stella, participated in her dad’s oral historical past ebook and shared her perspective from the day of Lennon’s dying.
“I remember the biggest reaction I’d ever seen from a phone call, and him leaving the kitchen and going outside,” Stella, 54, said about her father. “I admit it breaks my heart to this day. That was truly heartbreaking to see.”
“I’ve got that footage in my head for my life,” she continued. “I’ve captured in my head the moment Paul McCartney found out that John Lennon had been murdered.”
The Beatles leaving London Airport on their final tour in August 1966. Getty Images
A 12 months after the Beatles broke up, McCartney sued his bandmates for dissolution of their partnership. A London High Court decide dominated in McCartney’s favor and the partnership was terminated in 1974.
“In so many ways, I was dead… A 27-year-old about-to-become-ex-Beatle, drowning in a sea of legal and personal rows that were sapping my energy, in need of a complete life makeover,” McCartney wrote in his ebook, reflecting on the music group’s demise, per People.
Paul McCartney at Paris Fashion Week 2024. Getty Images
The Beatles exterior Buckingham Palace in London in 1965. Getty Images
McCartney also said that he wasn’t positive if he’d ever have the ability to transfer on from the “amazing decade” he had with the Beatles.
The rocker’s new ebook, edited by Ted Widmer, is based on “dozens of hours of interviews with Paul and numerous key players” concerned in his band, Wings, that he fashioned after the Beatles break up.
“Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run” is out now.
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