Sir Paul McCartney thanks the late John Lennon in moving birthday tribute

Beatles icon Sir Paul McCartney has delivered a moving birthday tribute to his late friend and former bandmate John Lennon, thanking him for “being there”.

On what would have been Lennon’s 84th birthday, McCartney took to social media to mark the occasion with a photo from a 2022 performance of himself on stage with footage of Lennon displayed in the background.

“Happy Birthday John. Thanks for being there,” he wrote.

 

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McCartney’s message to his late friend touched the hearts of fans across the globe who were quick to praise the Beatles star for his kind words.

“I’m going to cry,” one wrote.

“You and John after many decades are still the best songwriters of the world!”

“I remember the news that sad day in December. Happy birthday John,” commented another.

“Happy birthday dearest John!!!”

The touching message comes after McCartney recently lifted the curtain on his complicated friendship with Lennon, revealing the nature of their final conversation.

The rock and roll legends discussed the mundane process of baking bread the last time they spoke, McCartney revealed in a recent interview on The Howard Stern Show.

McCartney told Stern the conversation was “very special” in spite of the “whole horrible thing of the group breaking up”.

“And I ring John and I was making bread and got quite good at it,” he said.

“So when I heard John was doing it, it was great. We could just talk about something so ordinary.

“There’s no threat or anything. It was just two guys talking about, ‘Well, I don’t know. Do you leave it overnight or what do you do? And someone says, ‘Yeah, I leave it overnight in a hot cupboard’ and you’d just be chatting.

“It was really nice and I was so glad that we got back to that relationship that we’d always had when we were kids. We’d lived in each other’s pockets for so long that it was great to get back to that.”