“YOU DO MISS THEM. I START TO GET VERY SAD.” – PAUL MCCARTNEY. This week he put out his 20th solo album, The Boys of Dungeon Lane. Fourteen songs. And somewhere in the middle of making it, the memories caught up with him. There’s a song called Down South. It’s just about three teenage boys hitchhiking — Paul, George, John. Two of them are gone now. He told The Guardian that he gets very sad thinking about it. Then he stops himself. He remembers something — everyone misses them, not just him. And that, oddly, makes it a little easier to carry. There’s another song too. It points to a small house at 20 Forthlin Road in Liverpool — the room where he and John first sat down with two guitars and started throwing ideas at each other, bouncing back and forth. He still remembers exactly what John said to him there. And what Paul said back, all these years later, says everything.
“You Do Miss Them. I Start to Get Very Sad.” Paul McCartney on Memory, Music, and the Friends He Never…