“It hit me so hard that I really couldn’t talk about it,” says Paul McCartney, recalling John Lennon’s death

On December 8, 1980 John Lennon was killed with a firearm handled by Mark David Chapman. In a recent interview, Paul MCCARTNEY, who was a member of The Beatles along with Lennon, told how this tragic day was for him.

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“When John died, it was very difficult. He hit me so hard that I couldn’t really talk about it.”said the writer of the famous subject with complete honesty Let it be, according to a note from Pop Culture.

“I remember coming home from the studio the day we heard the news of his death. I turned on the television and saw people say, ‘Well, John Lennon was this.’ and ‘What he was, was this’ and ‘I remember meeting him.’

“I was like, ‘I can’t be one of those people. I can’t go on TV and say what John meant to me. It was too deep. I couldn’t put it into words.” continuous.

He revealed that his bandmate’s absence shaped his song Here today. “I was in a building that would become my recording studio, and there were just a couple of small empty rooms upstairs. So I found a room and sat on the wooden floor in the corner with my guitar and started to play the first few chords of here today”. (YO)