Sir Paul McCartney: It was magical to feel like I was reuniting with John Lennon

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Describing how it came about, Sir Paul told BBC Radio 1: “Before John died he was working on some songs and Yoko spoke to George Harrison and said ‘I’ve got a cassette with some John songs on that he never got to finish. It was really lovely, you know, because we hadn’t experienced that for a long time obviously and then suddenly here we were, working with ol’ Johnny.” Sir Paul said he hopes the track gives fans “a loving feeling”, adding: “That’s often what we were trying to do with our records – we were trying to spread love. “It’s John talking about ‘I miss you’ and stuff like that so… I think ’emotion’ – that would be the key word for people to take away from it, ‘emotion’.” Director Peter Jackson’s 2021 documentary The Beatles: Get Back used audio restoration technology that allowed for vocals, music and conversations by the band to be isolated. He said: “When there was something a little bit offbeat, technological things… I mean like the first time we heard a tape go backwards by mistake we went ‘Oh what’s that?’, and we wanted to put that on our record, whereas other people would just go ‘Oh, come on, get the tape on the right way and let’s get on with it’.