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McCartney also says that he has buried the hatchet with Yoko Ono, and denies there was ever a real issue. Understandably though he has no intention to forgive Lennon's murderer Mark Chapman.
"In a revealing interview he says "If I'm at a point where I go, 'I'm not sure about this', I'll throw it across the room to John," McCartney tells Billboard magazine.
"He'll say, 'You can't go there, man'. And I'll say, 'You're quite right. How about this?' 'Yeah, that's better'. We'll have a conversation. I don't want to lose that."
Turning to his infamously frosty relationship with Lennon's partner Yoko, he said 'If John loved her, there's got to be something. He's not stupid'. It's like, what are you going to do? Are you going to hold a grudge you never really had? George [Harrison] would say to me, 'You don't want stuff like that hanging around in your life'."
McCartney is known to be an advocate of compassion and forgiveness, but even he can't forgive the man who took away the most important person in his life. Talking of Lennon's murderer Chapman, he says simply "I think I could pretty much forgive anyone else. But I don't see why I'd want to forgive him. This is a guy who did something so crazy and terminal. Why should I bless him with forgiveness?" I don't think you're alone on this one Paul.
Below: Paul McCartney's impromptu show at Covent Garden
