The track released as part of Wings' debut album 'Wild Life'
Paul McCartney has admitted he gets “very emotional” listening to ‘Dear Friend’ because he wrote it about John Lennon.
The song was released in 1971 as part of McCartney’s post-The Beatles project Wings. To celebrate the 50th anniversary reissue of their debut album ‘Wild Life’, a Q&A about the record from 2018 has been shared on PaulMcCartney.com
He went on to explain how the track is “me talking to John after we’d had all the disputes about The Beatles break up.
“That lyric: ‘Really truly, young and newly wed’. Listening to that was like, ‘Oh my God, it’s true!’ I’m trying to say to John, ‘Look, you know, it’s all cool. Have a glass of wine. Let’s be cool.’ And luckily we did get it back together, which was like a great source of joy because it would have been terrible if he’d been killed as things were at that point and I’d never got to straighten it out with him.”
He goes on to say that ‘Dear Friend’ was “me reaching out. So, I think it’s very powerful in some very simple way. But it was certainly heartfelt.”
Elsewhere in the interview, McCartney says that Wings was his attempt to “relearn what it is to be in a band.”
“We followed what the early Beatles did which was form a band of people who couldn’t play very well, couldn’t write very well, and just do it a lot until it gets good,” he added.
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