Sir Paul McCartney mended John Lennon rift by bonding over baking
Sir Paul McCartney mended his friendship with John Lennon after the Beatles split by bonding over their shared love of baking.
Sir Paul McCartney mended his friendship with John Lennon by bonding over their shared love of baking.
The pair's relationship became frosty around the time of the Beatles split in 1970 but Paul has now opened up about how the childhood friends grew close again in the years after the break-up.
Speaking in new Audible's new Words + Music, series The Man on the Run, Paul explained the pair started talking about fatherhood after John welcomed son Sean in 1975 and they went on to bond over bread. He said: "Eventually we were actually able to talk to each other instead of [arguing] ...
"It was more chatting about what we were doing. John had had Sean so he was now the father of a young baby so we would talk about kids and domestic things.
"I had started making bread and was getting pretty good you know and I started talking to him and he was like: 'Oh yeah I'm making bread'. So the things we had in common were just the ordinary little domestic things.
"Somehow that was peaceful. It was nice that we had that in common. And we weren’t fighting anymore. So 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."
Paul went on to admit he's glad he mended his relationship with John in the years before the musician was murdered in New York in 1980.
He said: "That was the only consolation when John got killed. Thank God we got it back together. I don't know what I would have thought if we hadn't.
"If we were still warring and he got killed. [I would have] lost my chance to make peace."
Mark David Chapman was convicted of killing the Beatles legend and Paul admitted he still struggles to comprehend the brutal crime.
He said: "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. But something like that happens and it's like: 'For what reason?' And you can't work [it] out and the guy himself I don't think had much of a reason.
"It's a terrible you know. To rob the world of this crazy genius."
