New York August 08, 2005 3:55:33 PM IST


The Beatles legend Sir Paul McCartney has revealed that he shared a special bond with his late bandmate John Lenon after the duo spontaneously cried together over their grief at the death of their mothers.

McCartney always felt an affinity with Lennon due to their "unspoken bond" from losing their moms during their adolescence, culminating in a highly emotional night in 1964 while touring America.

"The Beatles were under a lot of pressure, touring all the time, and we didn't have any release. "The night we were flying to Jacksonville, Florida (9 September 1964), but to avoid a hurricane we had to put down in Key West, which at that times was the end of nowhere, like in the Humphrey Bogart movie (Key Largo)," McCartney was quoted by Ratethemusic, as saying.

"We stayed up all night drinking, all of us together, chatting about everything, and there came a moment where we, um, cried. Which we'd never done."

I'm not sure, but the likely explanation is that John and I had both lost our mothers - mine died of breast cancer, John's in a road accident - and it had always been a sort of unspoken bond between us. "Knowing we had both been through that grief and horror. That night we finally got round to talking about it," he added. (ANI)

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That's true. They both lost their mothers early in their lives. Then sadly enough Paul lost his 1st wife, Linda,also, to breast cancer.

Read the book "Shout" it tells a lot about their live before The Beatles. It goes into detail about their mothers.

John's mother was the "cool" mom, she was friends with his friends and let them be themselves. Paul's mother worked in a hospital, and she became ill and found out she had breast cancer, unfortunately he had to go through that twice in his life.

But "Shout" is a very good book about their lives.