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LARRY KING, Host: Tonight, he’s finally here. Paul McCartney in an exclusive hour next on Larry King Live. What a pleasure to have as our special guest tonight on Larry King Live Sir Paul McCartney. If I have to tell you who he is, we all have a major problem.
His now book is “Blackbird Singing: The Poems and Lyrics From 1965 to 1999.” Are they, the great Alan Jay Lerner told me that songwriting is not poetry. It’s a different craft. Do you agree?

PAUL MCCARTNEY, Musician: I do agree.
Yeah, I was persuaded with this book to put lyrics in because the guy who was editing it said some of these lyrics are poems, just kind of the other way around, and I met Allen Ginsberg once, the great American poet…
KING: I know him well.

MCCARTNEY: Who he said, you know him? He said that “Eleanor Rigby” is a hell of a poem. So I thought, well, you know, he should know, so I was kind of persuaded to do it. But I do think they’re different, personally, you know.

KING: “The John Lennon Death.” Where were you?

MCCARTNEY: I was in England. It was early morning when I heard.

KING: Who told you?

MCCARTNEY: My manager rang me and Linda had just gone to drop the kids at school. It was that kind of time in the morning. So my manager just rang me, and that’s where I was.

KING: And he said right out?

MCCARTNEY: Yeah. He said, “You better sit down, I have some really bad news.” And then Linda came back, and she said, “What’s wrong?” you know, because she could just see I had just gone pale. Yeah, that was, that was some shock.

KING: You had a strange, was “strange” a good word to describe the relationship you and John, up and down…
MCCARTNEY: Not really, no. Towards the end, when we had these business troubles, it got strange, but it wasn’t strange otherwise. It was very close.

KING: Because you wrote some of the songs. He wrote some of the songs. Right?

MCCARTNEY: Yeah.

KING: You were the writers, the two of you.

MCCARTNEY: The two of us were the main writers.
George wrote “Something in the Way She Moves” and…
KING: Not bad.

MCCARTNEY: “Here Goes,” “Here Comes the Sun.” “Something in the Way She Moves” is a Harrison song. Frank Sinatra used to call it his favorite Lennon-McCartney.

KING: He said it right here on this show.

MCCARTNEY: Did he?

KING: I said not Lennon-McCartney. One of his favorite all-time songs anywhere, “Something in the Way She Moves.
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MCCARTNEY: Yeah. It’s a great song. He’s a great writer. Yeah, but John and I were the main writers.

KING: You and Yoko get along?

MCCARTNEY: We don’t not get along. But you know, it’s like some people you may be destined to not become great buddies with. So it’s not that we don’t get along, just we don’t talk much. You know, we talk if we have to. I don’t kind of ring up, “Hey, Yoko, what’s happening, babe?” We don’t do that.

KING: How about Ringo?

MCCARTNEY: Yeah, I love him. My dear friend. I spoke to him, and George. We’re great buddies. We always will be.

KING: Another Internet question. What one song you’ve written has the most personal meaning to you?

MCCARTNEY: There are a few. It’s always difficult to choose one. You know, so “My Love,” “My Love,” “Maybe I’m Amazed,” very special, because I wrote them for Linda. So they will always have a special meaning. “Here Today,” because I wrote that for John. I think those kinds of songs. There’s a more recent one called “Little Willow” that I wrote. I think songs like that, they, it doesn’t mean they’re any better, but they have more meaning because I wrote them for a reason.

KING: What was the biggest McCartney-written hit?

MCCARTNEY: “Yesterday.
” KING: An amazing song.

MCCARTNEY: Not bad.

KING: When, Paul, you make it and have it all, what, you’re going to be 59 years old, right? What goals do you now have? I mean, it can’t be financial.

MCCARTNEY: No.

KING: It can’t be. Are there artistic goals left?

MCCARTNEY: Yeah, I…

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