Legendary musician Paul McCartney delivered a surprise moment that left fans buzzing when he performed a rare virtual duet with his late bandmate John Lennon during a recent theater show in Nashville.
In a highly emotional highlight of the evening, McCartney sang “I’ve Got a Feeling” with Lennon, giving the song a poignant new life, according to The Tennessean.
“I love that one, because I get to sing with John again,” he told the audience.
The performance took place at a limited-capacity venue, where McCartney—at age 83—deliberately chose a more intimate stage setting rather than a large arena.
McCartney Is Opening Up About Lennon’s Passing
McCartney recently offered a raw and moving account of the moment he discovered that his former bandmate and friend John Lennon had been murdered.
In his new oral-history book, “Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run,” McCartney writes that he learned of Lennon’s death on Dec. 8, 1980, from his manager in the early hours of the morning, according to The New York Post.
He described the news as “It was just too crazy.”
“We just said what everyone said; it was all blurred,” McCartney wrote. “It was the same as the Kennedy [assassination]. The same horrific moment, you know. You couldn’t take it in. I still haven’t taken it in. I don’t want to.”
Despite the devastation, McCartney and his fellow Beatles, Ringo Starr and George Harrison, returned to the studio that day. “We all had to go to work and be with people we knew,” he wrote.
He added, “Couldn’t bear it. We just had to keep going. So, I went in and did a day’s work in a kind of shock.”
McCartney Talks About His Last Phone Call With His Former Bandmate
McCartney also shared reflections on his relationship with Lennon.
Though their musical partnership ended when The Beatles broke up in 1970, the two men reconciled in the years that followed.
McCartney said one of the great consolations in his life is that their final phone call was friendly and calm. “We’d loved each other all our lives, and we’d had our arguments and we’d called each other names. But it had never got any more serious than two brothers in a family,” he wrote.
His daughter, Stella, recalled how her dad was the day he learned about Lennon’s passing
“I remember the biggest reaction I’d ever seen from a phone call, and him leaving the kitchen and going outside,” she said. “I admit it breaks my heart to this day. That was truly heartbreaking to see.”
She added that she has the footage of that day stuck in her head forever.
