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Paul McCartney discussed his song “Here Today,” which was written about his late bandmate John Lennon not long after he was murdered in 1980.In a recent SiriusXM interview, the former Beatle recalled the story behind the lines “What about the night we cried / Because there wasn’t any reason left to keep it all inside.”“That was to do with a time when we were in Key West down in Florida,” McCartney said, most likely referring to a point during the band’s first U.S. tour in September 1964. “And for some reason, I think it was like a hurricane, something had been delayed, and we couldn’t play for a couple of days. So we holed up in a little motel. So what would we do? Well, we’d have a drink, and we would get drunk. We didn’t have to play.

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