Sir Paul McCartney has opened up about John Lennon’s ‘tragic’ life (Picture: Getty Images/Bettmann Archive)
Sir Paul McCartney says his late Beatles’ bandmate John Lennon had a ‘tragic life’.
We all know that Lennon was tragically murdered back in 1980 when crazed fan Mark Chapman opened fire on him at the doorstep of his New York City home.
But the late musician’s 80-year-old bandmate has now opened up about Lennon’s ‘vulnerability’ and the ‘tragic’ events of his life.
While Sir Paul confessed he personally couldn’t have coped with Lennon’s adversities, he ‘admired’ the way his late friend dealt with them over the years.
During a talk in New York City for the Tribeca Film Festival’s Storytellers series, Paul got candid while looking through some old pictures from his new book, 1964: Eyes of the Storm.
When host Conan O’Brien declared Lennon looked ‘anxious and vulnerable’ in one of the snaps, Paul replied: ‘I don’t know about the anxiety, but the vulnerability is very true.
John and Paul were in The Beatles together until the band split in 1970 Picture: Cummings Archives/Redferns)
While George Harrison and Lennon died young, Sir Pail and Ringo Starr are still around to tell tales of the legendary band (Picture: John Downing/Getty Images)
‘[John] had a really tragic life. As a kid, his mother was decreed to not be good enough to bring him up … His father had left the home when John was three.
‘So that’s not too wonderful. John grew up with these sort of little minor tragedies through his life …
He added: ‘It made me realise why he had that vulnerability. I always admired the way he dealt with it because I’m not sure I would deal with the stuff he went through that well.’
Lennon is survived by his wife (left), Yoko Ono, now 90 (Picture: Susan Wood/Getty Images)
This comes after Paul confirmed – incredibly – that the Beatles will be releasing their last ever song with Lennon’s vocals thanks to artificial intelligence and old demos.
AI has been used to ‘extricate’ Lennon’s vocals and finish a new song that will be released ‘this year’, according to the icon.
The track will apparently be called Now and Then, an unfinished love song penned by Lennon before his untimely death.
Fellow Beatle Ringo Starr is still releasing music, and in recent years he’s toured the world performing with his All-Starr Band.
George Harrison sadly died from lung cancer aged 58 in 2001, two years after surviving a knife attack by an intruder at his home near Henley-on-Thames.
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Lennon was murdered in 1980.