Paul McCartney: Imagine is one of my favourite songs

Sir Paul McCartney has named John Lennon’s Imagine as one of the songs that mean the most to him.

Sir Paul chose the song as his final entry for Tracks of My Years on Radio 2, a feature in which a celebrity selects pieces of music that have soundtracked different periods of their lives.  Imagine was released in 1971, a year after the Beatles officially split.

“It’s just such classic by John. It was after we split up, so I wasn’t with him when he wrote it. It’s just one of those songs, when you hear it for the first time, you know it’s a killer. And I still love looking at footage of him singing it.

“It’s an anthem, the kind of thing everyone can relate to. It just sums a lot of things up, and it’s got to be one of John’s best songs,” Sir Paul has said.  Lennon and Sir Paul were estranged following the band’s break-up but were reconciled before Lennon’s death in 1980.

At the Glastonbury Festival in 2022, Sir Paul sang a “virtual” duet of I’ve Got a Feeling with Lennon, using Lennon’s performance from the 1969 Apple rooftop concert.  Other songs he has chosen for Tracks of My Years, part of Vernon Kay’s morning show on Radio 2, include That’ll Be the Day by Buddy Holly, Don’t You Want Me by the Human League and Mr Tambourine Man by Bob Dylan.

Dylan is one of Sir Paul’s heroes, and he told Kay that he had been starstruck to meet him at a US festival in 2016. “One of our girls said, ‘Bob Dylan wants to see you,’” he recalled. “We had met up in the ’60s. I came in to see him and was like, wow. It was just him and me in this massive big tent backstage, and he was very complimentary.

Source: telegraph.co.uk/Anita Singh

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