Restoration of Beatle bond ‘really cool’

FORMER Beatle Paul McCartney considered it “really cool” that he and John Lennon rediscovered their friendship just before Lennon’s killing.

Speaking before last night’s Dublin gig, Sir Paul said it was great “to like get back to who we really were, just two mates, even though it was on the end of a phone.”

He and his songwriting partner, who became arch-enemies in the break-up of the Fab Four and in the wake of the band’s demise, would exchange recipes for bread-making and other domestic trivia in their down-the-line exchanges