Back in 2003, in an interview with The Mirror, Paul McCartney remembered the last time he saw George Harrison… “The last time I saw him, he was very sick and I held his hand for….

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Back in 2003, in an interview with The Mirror, Paul McCartney remembered the last time he saw George Harrison… “The last time I saw him, he was very sick and I held his hand for four hours.” While I was doing it I was thinking “I’ve never held her hand before, ever.” This isn’t what two Liverpool lads do, no matter how well they know each other. I kept thinking, ‘He’s going to hit me here.’ But he didn’t. He stroked my hand with his thumb’ and I thought ‘Ah, this is okay, this is life. It’s hard but it’s lovely. That’s the way it is’. I knew George before I knew the others and I loved that man. I am so proud to have known him. Still, as sad as it was, you take most of it, which was the last time you saw it, and that’s what you remember. That and all the other wonderful memories. “.
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Paul McCartney’s incredible decades-long journey as he celebrates 80th birthday

Sir Paul McCartney has been in the spotlight for many decades. The Beatles split up in 1970 and Paul formed the band Wings with his first wife Linda a year later
As I waited to board a plane that would take me to meet the 60-year-old Paul McCartney, a familiar face appeared on the departure lounge TV.

Yoko Ono was opening her murdered husband’s childhood home as a National Trust museum, explaining why, in 2003, it finally deserved global recognition.

The spirit that changed the world profoundly has been remembered in this familiar place. He was a uniquely brilliant man,” she said.

When the Barcelona-bound plane took off from Liverpool’s recently named John Lennon International Airport, I looked down on the nearby council estate where the other half of that world-changing spirit had grown up.

And I wondered why the Beatle who couldn’t have been more local to Liverpool’s airport didn’t even have a baggage carousel named after him.

Especially when Paul McCartney had put more back into his home city than the rest put together.

He was the driving force behind the Liverpool Institute For Performing Arts, pumping £3million into the project to save his old secondary school from decay in the hope it would give talented working-class kids a leg-up in the creative world.

 

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