The former Beatle spoke about his former bandmate at the Tribeca Film Festival.
When two greats of their trade meet, the most interesting and insightful conversations are sure to arise. Such was the case at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival in New York City, when ex-Beatle Paul McCartney chatted with former late-night talker Conan O’Brien.
As part of a live recording by the O’Briens Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend Podcastthe singer-songwriter chatted about AI music, unreleased Beatles pictures and also his musical partner at the time, John Lennon.
Paul McCartney: ‘Lennon had a lot of little tragedies’
In the conversation, held as part of the Tribeca Storytellers series, O’Brien and McCartney delved deeper into the newly released book “1964: Eyes of the Storm” a. The reading not only sheds light on the background to the rise of the Fab Four at that time, but also contains 257 never-before-seen photos of the young Beatles. One photo of John Lennon caught Conan O’Brien’s eye. The “Imagine” singer looked particularly anxious and vulnerable while sitting in the back seat of a car, wearing thick horn-rimmed glasses. McCartney noted that vulnerability was particularly true of Lennon.
“[John] had a really tragic life,” the Wings singer said. “As a child, his mother wasn’t considered good enough to raise him. His father left the family when John was three years old. [Er] grew up with many small tragedies in his life. That made me realize where this vulnerability came from. I always admired the way he handled it though, because I don’t think I could have handled it all that well.”
All in all, however, the eighty-year-old looks back on the wild Beatles years with goodwill. “What I’m wearing.” [diesen Fotos] love is innocence. We didn’t know then that we were going to be famous. We really wanted it, but we didn’t really know it,” McCartney continued.
Final Beatles song thanks to AI technology
Paul McCartney also spoke about what he is currently working on. In a BBC interview in June, he announced that he would use AI technology to complete one last Beatles song. So far, it remains a secret who it is. However, fans are speculating that it could be a remake of Lennon’s 1978 song “Now and Then”.
The multi-instrumentalist is also busy filming the documentary Man on the Run, which explores McCartney’s post-Beatles years. Oscar and Grammy winner Morgan Neville is directing.