Paul McCartney remembers ‘irreplaceable’ friendship with John Lennon

Paul McCartney has been remembering the ‘irreplaceable’ friendship he shared with John Lennon.

Forged as McCartney joined up with Lennon’s local band in the late fifties and as they began perhaps the greatest songwriting partnership of them all at Forthlin Road, the pair became estranged and sent each other barbs through their songwriting for a period after The Beatles split up, but McCartney has also been recalling the cooling of those tensions during an interview with Rolling Stone.

“We were kids growing up together, in the same environment with the same influences,” he said. “He knows the records I know, I know the records he knows. You’re writing your first little innocent songs together.”

“He hugged me. It was great, because we didn’t normally do that. He said, ‘It’s good to touch.’ I always remembered that – it’s good to touch.”

Sir Paul had much more to discuss with Rolling Stone, take it all in here.