Next year will mark 50 years since The Beatles broke up as well as the 40-year anniversary of John Lennon’s tragic and premature death by deranged assassin Mark Chapman.
Even though many of his current fans were born years after the fact, the world still remembers Lennon as one of its most important musical and cultural figures. And bandmate Sir Paul McCartney hasn’t forgotten about him either.
“I dream about him,” McCartney told Stephen Colbert on The Late Show this week. “When you’ve had a relationship like that for so long, such a deep relationship… I love when people revisit you in your dreams.
“I often have band dreams, and I’m often with John [in them]… I have a lot of dreams about John, and they’re always good.”
When The Beatles decided to call it quits back in 1970, much of the public’s ire was directed at McCartney. “When the Beatles broke up, a lot of the talk was that, like, I was the villain, and that John and I didn’t really get on well.”
“I kinda bought into it,” he admitted before explaining how he eventually came to realize they were truly good friends all along.
