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Paul McCartney and John Lennon in 1964. UPI/Bettmann Archive/Getty Images Paul McCartney talks about rekindling his friendship with John Lennon in a new clip from the musician’s installment of the Audible series, Words + Music, titled “The Man on the Run.”
The three-hour audio experience is out today, March 19, and features extended interviews between McCartney and Oscar-winning filmmaker, Morgan Neville. McCartney contributed a few fresh musical performances to the project, too.
In this exclusive clip, McCartney reflects on how he and Lennon rebuilt their relationship in the years after the Beatles’ tumultuous break up. He remembers how the two finally got to a point where they were actually able to “talk to each other” instead of just barking over the phone. Lennon, McCartney notes, had just become a father again with the birth of his son Sean, and so the pair often spoke about domestic life and having young children.
McCartney even recalls once telling Lennon that he’d started baking bread and was getting pretty good at it. He says Lennon enthusiastically replied, “Oh yeah, I’m making bread!”
“The things that we had in common were just ordinary, little domestic things,” McCartney says. “Somehow that was peaceful. It was nice that we had that in common. And we weren’t fighting anymore. I would go and visit him and we had quite a bit of interaction, and the same with George and Ringo. It was all getting much nicer.”
Being able to repair their relationship, McCartney admits a few moments later, was “the only consolation” after Lennon was murdered in 1980. “I thought, ‘Thank God we got it back together,’” McCartney says. “I don’t know what I would have thought if we hadn’t and we were still warring.”
