McCartney Times

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST:

And now an encore of a conversation I had last year with musician and former Beatle Paul McCartney. The occasion was the release of his album, “McCartney III.” He joined me over Zoom just a couple of days after the 40th anniversary of the murder of his bandmate, John Lennon. Lennon was killed by a fan on December 8, 1980. McCartney told me how he was marking 40 years since the death of his collaborator, sparring partner and friend.

(SOUNDBITE OF THE BEATLES SONG, “TWO OF US”)

PAUL MCCARTNEY: I really mark it by just thinking about him…

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “TWO OF US”)

THE BEATLES: (Singing) Two of us riding nowhere, spending someone’s hard-earned pay.

MCCARTNEY: …And just going over memories. Now, mind you, I do that all the time. And I think as time goes on and that John is a distant memory, it becomes more and more special. And I often just sit there and think, wait a minute, did we go hitchhiking when we were kids? Yeah, we did. We went to Paris. Boy, we had a laugh there, you know?

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Source: Encore: Paul McCartney on the life and death of John Lennon, 41 years after his death