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Club Sandwich 76

            But the press, the media, outsiders, are always at least one step behind. We know what you've said in your last interview and so might think that you're all getting on great, but last night you might have had an incredibly awkward phone call. Or, we might think you're not talking to each other but last night you might have had a wonderfully happy phone call. We just don't know how it really is between you guys. And the journalist you're talking about certainly couldn't have known what John was thinking. Club Sandwich 76

            That's right. That's the point. In which case, why did he write it? He could have written, "I speculate, that possibly, from what we heard about John, around about that time he might not have wanted Paul to get his mitts on it..." In actual fact, I think John would have been very happy, but that's a guess. And it's my guess. And I think it's an educated guess, and I'm pretty confident about that. As you say, I know what the last phone calls were about, and that is one of the saving graces, to this day, for me, that we had healed our wounds before he died. I really don't know how we'd be dealing with it now if we hadn't. I think it would be ten times more difficult.

            That journalist also talked about how unusual it was for the three of you to work together, but 'Yesterday' was done on your own, initially...

            'She's Leaving Home' the Beatles "weren't even on, instrumentally. There was just an orchestra and two voices, mine and John's. At least 'Yesterday' I played guitar, so there was a Beatle playing on it. 'Eleanor Rigby' is the same: the Beatles don't play on it. So there's plenty of precedent for this. 'Why Don't We Do It In The Road' was just me and Ringo.

            The Ballad Of John And Yoko'...

            That's just me and John. Again, you see, John wanted to do things quickly, and that was the very exciting thing about working with him. He didn't like to hang about. I hate to hang about but I will do it, I will steel myself and say "Oh well, it's the nature of the beast, we've got to hang about". John wouldn't do it. And he just came around to my house and said, "Hey, come on, let's go around Abbey Road and do 'The Ballad Of John And Yoko'". We didn't really feel that we had to ask whether it was OK to do this, we just went ahead and did it.

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