The Beatles: Sir Paul McCartney on making up with John Lennon – ‘A great blessing for me’

Sir Paul McCartney and John Lennon’s songwriting partnership is the most successful in music history, but the pair of Liverpudlian lads didn’t always see eye to eye. Following The Beatles’ break-up 50 years ago, fans always wondered if the band would ever reunite and if the feuds among the Fab Four had well and truly ended. Now in a new interview, Sir Paul has shared how he takes comfort in having made up with John.

Sir Paul, who was promoting his new solo album McCartney III, said: “We had certainly got our friendship back, which was a great blessing for me,

“And I now will often think, if I’m writing a song, ‘OK, John — I’ll toss it over to you.

“What line comes next?’ So I’ve got a virtual John that I can use.”

Asked if The Beatles would have ever had a reunion or worked together again, the 78-year-old admitted it could well have happened.

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The author continued: “I think they were good in the ways they needed to be.”

He pointed out how Lennon had basically expressed this during his final interview with San Francisco DJ Dave Sholin.

Womack said how Sholin had told him: “God, I wish I’d recorded [John talking about Paul].”

But the interviewer has recounted what Lennon said to him about McCartney and it’s really quite touching.

Lennon said of McCartney, just hours before his death: “He’s like a brother. I love him.

“Families, we certainly have our ups and downs and quarrels.