Paul McCartney unveils repairing friendship with John Lennon before he died | Music | Entertainment

Paul McCartney and John Lennon continue to be the world’s most successful songwriters and members of the best-selling band of all time.

Yet when The Beatles split up, there were major rifts as they didn’t always get along.

As time went by, both would reconcile their ups and downs, recognising that they were basically brothers who had spats but ultimately loved each other dearly.

Speaking in a new interview for Audible’s Words + Music on The Man on the Run documentary, Macca opened up on how the Liverpudlian pair rekindled their friendship before Lennon’s sudden, tragic death in 1980.

It turns out their main source of common ground was sharing fatherhood after Lennon became a dad again following his son Sean’s birth in 1975. Additionally, they both enthused about baking their own homemade bread, of all things.

McCartney shared: “The things that we had in common were just ordinary, little domestic things. Somehow that was peaceful. It was nice that we had that in common. And we weren’t fighting anymore. I would go and visit him and we had quite a bit of interaction, and the same with George and Ringo. It was all getting much nicer.”

Macca also confirmed that “the only consolation” he had after Lennon’s murder was that they repaired their friendship before he died at just 40. The 83-year-old confessed: “I thought, ‘Thank God we got it back together’. I don’t know what I would have thought if we hadn’t and we were still warring.”