Paul McCartney Was Moved to Tears by a Rock Legend's Emotional Tribute

When Carl Perkins joined Paul McCartney in the studio, the plan was to work on one of McCartney's songs for his upcoming album. The Beatles covered several of his songs, so McCartney was very excited about the collaboration. However, while he was working with the former Beatle, he decided to show him a song he'd been working on to get his input. Little did he know, he was about to trigger an incredibly painful memory. The song was "My Old Friend," and one particular line absolutely devastated the bassist.

When Perkins sang the line, “Think about me every now and then, old friend,” McCartney couldn't handle it and broke down in tears, immediately stepping out of the room. Perkins was bewildered and worried he'd done something wrong, but Linda McCartney quickly reassured him and explained what had happened. Years later, Perkins cleared the mystery in an interview.

"Paul was crying, tears were rolling down his pretty cheeks, and Linda said, 'Carl, thank you so much.' I said, 'Linda, I'm sorry. I didn’t mean to make you cry.' She said, 'But he’s crying, and he needed to. He hasn’t been able to really break down since that happened to John.'" 

Paul McCartney believes this one John Lennon song helped shape the world as we know it. While Lennon said those words to McCartney the last time they saw each other, that wasn't the last time they talked. In the 70s, Paul and Linda McCartney were playing together with Wings and raising a family in the UK, while Lennon settled in New York City with Yoko Ono and withdrew from the public eye when his youngest son, Sean Ono Lennon, was born in 1975. But while their lives didn't leave much room for them to meet up, the two friends still talked on the phone regularly, especially during the quiet times.

In his book, McCartney: A Life in Lyrics, he recalled one of the last conversations they had on the phone. They were both family men at the time, and Lennon in particular had become a homemaker, being his son's primary caretaker. McCartney shared with readers that they would talk about baking bread, something they both had become interested in. About the last time they talked, he said elsewhere that "It was just a very happy conversation about his family, my family. Enjoying his life very much, Sean was a very big part of it."

Source: collider.com/Val Barone

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