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Paul McCartneyopened up about the intense grief he experienced afterJohn Lennon’s death — and how it led to “Here Today.”
“When John died, it was so difficult,” McCartney told host Tom Frangione. “It was difficult for everyone in the world because he was such a loved character and such a crazy guy. He was so special.”
McCartney, 80, continued, that the death of hisBeatlesbandmate hit him so hard “that I couldn’t really talk about it.”
“I couldn’t put it into words,” he added.
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TheBeatlesfrontman said that “once the emotions had sort of settled a little bit,” he hit his recording studio — or, more accurately, the “couple of little empty rooms” that eventually became his studio. McCartney recalled, “I found a room and just sat on the wooden floor in a corner with my guitar and just started to play the opening chords to ‘Here Today.'”
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The rock icon then elaborated on an occasion he references in the track: “‘The night we cried,’ that was to do with a time when we were in Key West down in Florida, 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 got drunk and started to get kind of emotional,” he continued. “On the way to that, there was a lot of soul-searching. We told each other a few truths, you know, ‘Well, I love you,’ ‘I love you man,’ ‘I love that you said that,’ and we opened up.”
“So that was kind of special to me,” McCartney said. “I think that was really one of the only times that ever happened.”
source: people.com
