Sir Paul McCartney has confessed how “difficult” he found losing his bandmate, John Lennon.
The Beatles star revealed he “couldn’t talk about” John following his tragic murder in 1980.
He has revealed that on the day of his friend’s death, he got home and turned on the TV to see people reflecting on “what John meant” to them all.
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John Lennon was shot outside his New York City apartment which left Paul devastated.
The music icon, 80, said admitted that it affected him catastrophically and he described the loss as “too deep”.
Sir Paul recently said: “When John died it was so difficult. It had hit me so much that I couldn’t really talk about it.
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“I remember getting home from the studio on the day that we’d heard the news he died. Turning the TV on and seeing people say, ‘Well, John Lennon was this’ and ‘What he was, was this’ and ‘I remember meeting him’.
“I was like, ‘I can’t be one of those people. I can’t go on TV and say what John meant to me.’ It was just too deep. I couldn’t put it into words.”
Paul discussed this during an interview with SiriusXM’s The Beatles Channel about the making of his 1982 solo album Tug Of War.
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The star went on to describe how, after some time, “once the emotions had sort of settled a little bit” he was able to begin to process his death through writing Here Today.
Talking about the song’s writing process, Paul said: “I was in a building that would become my recording studio, and there were just a couple of little empty rooms upstairs.
“So I found a room and just sat on the wooden floor in a corner with my guitar and just started to play the opening chords to Here Today.“
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The track features some heartfelt lyrics which refer to a night he spent with his late pal, whom he had never been able to speak about before.
The lyrics state: “What about the night we cried
“Because there wasn’t any reason left to keep it all inside? Never understood a word
“But you were always there with a smile.“
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Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
