Paul McCartney has admitting going to a cinema to see the movie ‘Yesterday’ last week.
The premise of the movie is about a man who has a bike accident and wakes up in a world without The Beatles … but he can remember all the songs. So he sings them and becomes famous.
Paul McCartney loved the movie but was a little embarrassed by how much it loved him. “It was a pretty good plug for me,” Paul told Stephen Colbert. “We were in the back row of the cinema. The guy is saying ‘this is Paul McCartney, the greatest songwriter’ (laughs). It’s great. It was a good way to see it rather than at a corporate screening. I thought it was a nice movie”.
As well as losing John Lennon in 1980, Paul lost his own mother at age 14. “I didn’t think it affected me musically. I just knew it was a tragedy,” he told Colbert. “I’ve got a younger brother that’s a year and a half younger than me and to lose your mum at 14 is not easy. So it was just very difficult for a few years trying to coming to terms with it, but then I found music and John. And John lost his mother too, tragic circumstances, so we had a kind of bond. We both knew about that, we knew that feeling. I never thought it affected my music until years later. People were saying ‘well that song ‘Yesterday, why she had to go, I don’t know, she wouldn’t say’. They said ‘that’s your mum’. I said ‘I don’t know. I certainly didn’t mean it to be’. But it could be. Those things can happen. I think then it gave you the impetus to just go and have a good life, which I know she would want”.
Watch what Paul McCartney says here.
Paul McCartney chatted to Stephen Colbert for the entire Late Show on Monday night. Watch the other parts of the interview here.
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