McCartney explained that after learning of Lennon’s death, he returned home to be with his family.
He said: “We just went home. We just looked at all the news on the telly, and we sat there with all the kids, just crying all evening.”
“I couldn’t handle it. Really”, he said.
John Lennon was killed on December 8, 1980. The singer and guitarist from The Beatles was murdered outside his home, The Dakota, in New York City by a deranged fan.
The 40-year-old left behind two children and his wife, Yoko Ono.
But the man who had been his friend since he was a teenager, Paul McCartney, was equally as bereft.
McCartney recalled: