Paul McCartney still gets emotional listening to the John Lennon inspired ‘Dear Friend’
nme.comPaul McCartney has admitted he gets “very emotional” listening to ‘Dear Friend’ because he wrote it about John Lennon.The song was released in 1971 as part of McCartney’s post-The Beatles project Wings.
To celebrate the 50th anniversary reissue of their debut album ‘Wild Life’, a Q&A about the record from 2018 has been shared on PaulMcCartney.com.Speaking about ‘Wild Life and the track ‘Dear Friend’, McCartney revealed that he finds it “very emotional when I listen to it now.
I have to sort of choke it back.”He went on to explain how the track is “me talking to John after we’d had all the disputes about The Beatles break up.“That lyric: ‘Really truly, young and newly wed’.
Listening to that was like, ‘Oh my God, it’s true!’ I’m trying to say to John, ‘Look, you know, it’s all cool. Have a glass of wine.
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