Paul McCartney has shared details on rekindling his friendship with John Lennon after the Beatles breakup in a new clip from his Audible series installment. The audio experience, titled 'The Man on the Run,' features interviews with filmmaker Morgan Neville and was released on March 19. McCartney highlights their conversations about domestic life as key to reconciliation.
In the clip from 'Words + Music' on Audible, Paul McCartney describes how he and John Lennon moved past their post-Beatles tensions to rebuild their relationship. After years of strained phone calls, they began to 'talk to each other,' McCartney explains. This shift coincided with Lennon becoming a father again to son Sean, leading to discussions on everyday parenting and home life. McCartney recalls telling Lennon about his new hobby of baking bread, to which Lennon replied enthusiastically, '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.' The three-hour audio, produced with Oscar-winning filmmaker Morgan Neville, includes McCartney's fresh musical performances and expands on Neville's recent Prime Video documentary about him, based on interviews conducted over three years in Los Angeles, New York, and London. Reflecting on Lennon's 1980 murder, McCartney calls mending their bond 'the only consolation.' 'I thought, 'Thank God we got it back together,'' he says. 'I don’t know what I would have thought if we hadn’t and we were still warring.' Notably, the interview occurred on the anniversary of Lennon's death, which surprised McCartney. He remarked, 'The guy who did it is still in New York and he’s in jail and he’s still knocking around — you can’t make sense of it. The world is a very sort of bizarre place, as we all know.'
