John Lennon's last words to Paul McCartney amid feud (2024)
John Lennon was murdered outside his New York City apartment on December 8 1980, just two days after giving an interview about his friendship and rivalry with Paul McCartney.
When The Beatles split in 1970, the bandmates all went their separate ways with most of them not meeting up again for years. In Paul's book, The Lyrics: 1956 To The Present, he said: "When we broke up and everyone was now flailing around, John turned nasty.
"I don’t really understand why. Maybe because we grew up in Liverpool, where it was always good to get in the first punch of a fight."
John then criticised his former band when he released his first solo album in December 1970, making tensions worse. However, they put aside their differences before the end, with John revealing his true thoughts just days before his untimely end.
Years later, Paul’s wife Linda shared the last thing John ever said about his old bandmate. Considering what was to come, his last words were truly heart-breaking.
Speaking to Ultimate Classic Rock, John said to Paul: “Think about me every now and then, old friend.”
His final words were used in the song My Old Friend, which Carl Perkins was inspired to write after he met Paul months after John’s death. According to Ultimate Classic Rock, the lyric "Think about me every now and then, old friend," caused Paul to leave the room in floods of tears.
Linda explained that the last time Paul talked to John, he had said the same line to Paul: “think about me every now and then
now and then
"Now and Then" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, released on 2 November 2023. Dubbed "the last Beatles song", it appeared on a double A-side single, paired with a new stereo remix of the band's first single, "Love Me Do" (1962), with the two serving as "bookends" to the band's history.
She said those were “the last words that John Lennon said to Paul in the hallway of the Dakota building,” he told Goldmine magazine toward the end of his life. Mr. Lennon “patted him on the shoulder and said, 'Think about me every now and then, old friend. '”
Jay Hastings worked as a concierge on the front desk at The Dakota, the famous apartment building where Lennon lived and was shot outside, in Manhattan's Upper West Side. Hastings said Lennon's last words were "I'm shot", before the musician stumbled and fell to the ground, fatally wounded.
Except: there is a moment in the history of the Beatles where John and Paul's friendship shatters, more or less irrevocably, and any thoughtful fan has to ask “why?” Before June 1968, John loved Paul; after, he seems to have straight up hated him.
According to those present, his final words were: “Everything else can wait, but the search for God cannot wait, and love one another.” To his wife, he said simply: “Olivia, you'll be fine, you'll be fine”.
While John's wife, Yoko Ono, organized a 10-minute silent vigil to honor him, there was no official wake. Why didn't John Lennon have a funeral after his death? After John Lennon's death, his wife, Yoko Ono, had his remains cremated.
Jay Hastings who worked at the front desk of the Dakota building in New York, where the musician lived with his wife, Yoko Ona and their song Sean Ono Lennon recalled the fateful day. "He runs past me. He goes, 'I'm shot,'" Mr Hastings recalls in the documentary. "He had blood coming out of his mouth.
Mark David Chapman shot and killed Lennon on Dec.8, 1980, as he and his wife Yoko Ono were returning to their New York City apartment. Chapman, 25 at the time, was a former security guard and YMCA employee from Hawaii.
It's impossible to say for sure why Lennon didn't receive a traditional funeral as the subject has rarely been discussed. John didn't stipulate that he'd liked to be cremated in his will, though he did nominate Ono as the sole inheritor of his estate, which also left her in charge of his funeral, or lack thereof.
Talking on radio station SiriusXM in 2022, Paul reflected on the days after John's death, admitting the intense grief he felt saying "I couldn't really talk about it." "When John died, it was so difficult," McCartney told host Tom Frangione.
"Here Today" is a song by Paul McCartney from his 1982 album Tug of War. He wrote the song as a tribute to his relationship with John Lennon, who was murdered in 1980.
The two last spoke on the phone in early 1980. In 2011, Paul McCartney went on recall to The Express the last time he saw Lennon: "I was at John's place and Saturday Night Live was on and John said to me, 'Have you seen this? ' I hadn't, I was living in England, he was living in America.
The concert ended with "Get Back", and John Lennon joking, "I'd like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves, and I hope we've passed the audition."
On the song 'Dear Yoko' from the album Double Fantasy, at the end John seems to be having a chat with someone. He says a whole bunch of stuff including, I think: "when you come over next time don't sell a cow, spend some time with these ....... get in the water!"
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