http://www.macca-central.com/macca-news/morenews.cfm?ID=1809McCARTNEY AND LENNON GRIEVED FOR LOST MOTHERS TOGETHER
Aug 08, 2005 Source: contactmusic.com
SIR PAUL McCARTNEY and his late BEATLES bandmate JOHN LENNON once 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 mums during their adolescence, culminating in a highly emotional night in 1964 while touring America.
The incident went on to inspire the lyrics in HERE TODAY: 'What about the night we cried? Because there wasn't any reason left to keep it inside'.
McCartney, 63, says, "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).
"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."
