Man on the Run Interview Recap: 'an artist who must reinvent himself without the Beatles and with his great ally and love, Linda McCartney. But he never fell out of love with John Lennon.'
With the new documentary 'Man on the Run' out, there's been some really good press for it. @destrokkit put me on to one great interview with the man who interviewed Paul for it which I highly recommend
Some stare at the wall highlights:
- We're just saying it about John and Paul now:
“Man on the Run” reveals an artist who must reinvent himself without the Beatles and with his great ally and love, Linda McCartney. But he never fell out of love with John Lennon.
- The man who interviewed Paul for the documentary sees John as a daily presence in Paul's life
In watching ‘Get Back,’ which I devoured as soon as it came out, you see how much real love that he still has, to the point where John is in his life every day. And I’m not exaggerating. I have no doubt he thinks about John every day, if not many times a day. So it’s not something that’s distant to him. It’s something that he holds onto.
- Paul started thinking about doing a documentary about the time period because Get Back finally allowed him to forgive himself for the break-up. Paullllllll
It’s something I’m piecing together from talking to Paul again just a couple weeks ago, in the beginning of the film where he said, “I thought myself as the bastard, when people blame me for all this.” He internalized it, and that period of ‘Let It Be,’ and then suing the band was so painful. And the “Get Back” project actually opened up something in him, saying it wasn’t all bad. Everybody said everything was horrible, but actually it was much more nuanced. There was love, there was tension. And that process of self-forgiveness was the reason this film happened: if that wasn’t that bad, maybe I should think about this other period that I’ve also pushed out of my head in a lot of ways. And that’s amazing that still 50 years later, that’s still going on.
- Paul's archive is apparently massive (please Paul I just want a peek one tiny little peeeeek) 👀
- Linnddaaaa :(((((((((
I always felt like that decade and the bookends of McCartney, one and two: leaving the Beatles and John’s passing, and running away from the Beatles and what he had done for that decade. And I definitely thought about Linda’s death and we played with it, but it just felt extraneous in a way that Linda did live on for another 17 years past this time. And when I showed Paul the film, he said, “I’m so glad that you left Linda at the end of the film like that.”
I don’t think anybody’s ever understood what Linda meant to Paul in all ways. And that’s what my wife means to me: having somebody who can be your wingman in every imaginable way, who has your back, is the greatest thing. That’s what you need to survive.
- Although Linda is seen as a major presence in the film and and to Paul, her grandson has never heard her voice which is heartbreaking, they have this much footage and the grandkids don't know enough to even know what Linda sounds like? :((
- Paul's grandson also didnt know that grandpa was a felon. Honey you have a big storm coming hahahahaa
It's a great read and not a long one so highly recommend to anyone because christ alive some of the quotes from it are like being punched in the face.
