Restoration of Beatle bond ‘really cool’
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
“Because of that, it was even more of a shock when he was shot, but we did have those last moments and this is something I am really thankful for,” McCartney said.
To this day, McCartney, when writing new material, will ask himself “I wonder what he (Lennon) would have thought about this?”
McCartney described himself as “just an ordinary bloke” who doesn’t drive a gold-plated Cadillac.
“I’ve got a nice car, but it doesn’t interest me, like, to have a lot of them. A lot of people would think my life is pretty flash, but in my head I think I’m normal.
“And I think most of the people who know me would say that,” the former Beatle said.
“I think people who would know me a little bit might sort of say ‘well, you know how can you say he’s normal, he’s got a big house, he’s got a few of them, he’s got all that money ... how can anyone who was in The Beatles be normal?’”
As a character, he is still moved by the things that have always moved him, he said.
“One of my favourite things is to go back up to Liverpool for a family do where I am nothing, I’m just ‘a Paul’”
Earlier this week, McCartney was back in the former USSR, where he met Russian President Vladimir Putin who told one-time Beatle “you are loved here (in Russia).”
“Once you and The Beatles were very popular in this country.
“Your music was like a gulp of freedom.”
Last night, in Dublin, McCartney left his appreciative audience gasping and indeed gulping for more.
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