Paul Mccartney Here Today Good Evening New York City
Paul Mccartney Here Today Good Evening New York City
On the morning of 9 December 1980, McCartney awoke to the news that Lennon had been murdered outside his home in the Dakota building in New York.[120] Lennon's death created a media frenzy around the surviving members of The Beatles.[121] On the evening of 9 December, as McCartney was leaving an Oxford Street recording studio, he was surrounded by reporters and asked for his reaction to Lennon's death.[122] He was later criticised for what appeared, when published, to be an utterly superficial response: "It's a drag". [123] McCartney explained, "When John was killed somebody stuck a microphone at me and said: 'What do you think about it?' I said, 'It's a dra-a-ag' and meant it with every inch of melancholy I could muster. When you put that in print it says, 'McCartney in London today when asked for a comment on his dead friend said, "It's a drag."' It seemed a very flippant comment to make."[123]
McCartney was also to recall: {{cquote|I talked to Yoko the day after he was
