Paul McCartney shares emotional message on John Lennon’s birthday
Paul McCartney has shared an emotional post in dedication to John Lennon on what would’ve been his 84th birthday.
The music icon took to Instagram to share a photo from the stage in which he is performing in front of footage of Lennon, who died at the age of 40 in 1980.
McCartney shared the moving birthday tribute to his late friend and former bandmate, thanking him for “being there”.
“Happy Birthday John. Thanks for being there,” he captioned the photo.
McCartney’s dedication to his late friend and musical collaborator touched the hearts of Beatles fans around the world who were quick to praise his kind words.
“I’m going to cry,” one wrote, while another added, “You and John after many decades are still the best songwriters of the world!”
“I remember the news on that sad day in December. Happy birthday John,” commented another in reference to the day Lennon passed.
The birthday message comes after McCartney lifted the lid on the final conversation he had with Lennon before he died.
Speaking candidly about their “complicated” relationship on The Howard Stern Show, he recalled how their wholesome conversation was sparked by a shared hobby.
McCartney told Stern the conversation was “very special” in spite of the “whole horrible thing of the group breaking up”.
“And I ring John and I was making bread and got quite good at it,” he said.
“So when I heard John was doing it, it was great. We could just talk about something so ordinary.”
“There’s no threat or anything. It was just two guys talking about, ‘Well, I don’t know. Do you leave it overnight or what do you do? And someone says, ‘Yeah, I leave it overnight in a hot cupboard’ and you’d just be chatting.”
“It was really nice and I was so glad that we got back to that relationship that we’d always had when we were kids. We’d lived in each other’s pockets for so long that it was great to get back to that.”
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