Paul McCartney sets record straight on relationship with Lennon | Parkinson Interview 12 Oct 1997

1997 was a big year for Paul McCartney – “a year of living famously” to quote Club Sandwich.

The year began with a Knighthood followed by new music with Flaming Pie which was released to great commercial and critical success in May. Paul’s second major classical work Standing Stone followed in September. In October Paul’s official biography Many Years From Now was released.

This interview was broadcast on BBC Radio 2 on the morning of Sunday 12th October 1997 on the programme Parkinson’s Sunday Supplement.

The interviewer is Michael Parkinson and he and Paul go back a long way. In fact, Parkinson is one of the famous faces on the Band on the Run album cover. In exchange for appearing on the cover, Paul promised Parkinson an interview, a promise which took a very long time to fulfil! This interview takes place in 1997 - some 24 years after that Band on the Run cover shot.

A couple of years later in 1999 Paul appeared on Michael Parkinson’s TV chat show, but this radio interview came first.

Michael Parkinson is a brilliant interviewer, asking intelligent, thoughtful questions and then actually listening to the answers. This resulted in a great interview with Paul.

The "setting the record straight on John Lennon" that's referred to in the video title starts from 10:40

The recording cuts off abruptly at the end as the tape ran out.

New 2020 digital transfer from the original analogue cassette recording I made from FM Radio all those years ago.

Enjoy!

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