The Beatles star compares it to the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Paul McCartney has opened up about the tragic moment he learned that his bandmate John Lennon had been shot and killed outside his home in New York on December 8, 1980.
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In his new book, “Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run,” the 83-year-old musician describes how he received the news from his manager early in the morning, People reports.
“It was just too much,” McCartney writes about Lennon’s death.
He compares it to “that same terrible moment” as the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963, writing that everything became a blur.
“You couldn’t take it in. I still haven’t taken it in. I don’t want to,” he writes.
After Lennon died, McCartney recalls that he went back to the studio with his Beatles colleagues Ringo Starr and George Harrison. The band did not want to be at home after receiving the heavy news.
“We all had to go to work and be with people we knew.”
The Beatles are considered one of the most influential bands in rock history. They started as a pop band but evolved across a range of rock genres.
In the book, McCartney also reflects on having reconciled with Lennon before his death, following The Beatles’ public breakup in 1970.
Although he regrets not getting to sit down with Lennon and get on the same wavelength again, he is grateful that their last phone call was a friendly one.
He calls the reconciliation “one of the great blessings in my life.”
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