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Paul McCartney has shed light on the decade following the break-up of The Beatles at a Q&A for the launch of new documentary Man On The Run. \u201cIt\u2019s such a story,\u201d he explained, after a private screening of the film at London\u2019s Ham Yard Hotel last night (February 18). \u201cI’m reminded we tried to follow The Beatles. It’s mad. Do I see the bravery in that? I actually just see the madness.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Paul McCartney has shed light on the decade following the break-up of The Beatles at a Q&A for the launch of new documentary Man On The Run. \u201cIt\u2019s such a story,\u201d he explained, after a private screening of the film at London\u2019s Ham Yard Hotel last night (February 18). \u201cI\u2019m reminded we tried to follow The Beatles. It\u2019s mad. Do I see the bravery in that? I actually just see the madness.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it was so impossible to do something like that, that the only way you could do it was just in the kind of loony way that we did it \u2013 yeah, we\u2019ll just go back to square one, and we\u2019ll go and show up at a university, don\u2019t book hotels, and take the dogs in the van. For some reason we thought that was a great idea!\u201d<\/p>\n

Directed by Morgan Neville, the Prime Video documentary follows McCartney through his early solo career and then the tumults of Wings. The screening was attended by many of McCartney\u2019s family and friends including Noel Gallagher, Paul Weller, Chrissie Hynde and Sharon Osbourne.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh God, there are so many bits in it that are so embarrassing,\u201d McCartney said in the Q&A. \u201cYou know, \u2018Mary Had A Little Lamb\u2019 with the little red nose, and the look on Henry McCullough\u2019s face. He\u2019s not happy! So I was thinking, \u2018Well, maybe we could just cut those bits\u2026 Maybe I should just cool out my image and just lose those bits.\u2019 And [Neville] said, \u2018No no, let me keep them in because you\u2019ll see all of that stuff, and then the fact that you overcame it all and found yourself in the end, and won.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s natural to me to be very enthusiastic about something, so I don\u2019t always see the pitfalls, because I\u2019m not looking for them. \u2018Hey, let\u2019s make some music!\u2019 I just enjoy it. So you know, that\u2019s me. That\u2019s how I do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked by interviewer Lauren Laverne what most surprised him about seeing the film, a visibly emotional McCartney replied, \u201cI think all the stuff with the kids and Linda, you know, is lovely to see. I mean, obviously the Linda stuff was very emotional, because she looks so beautiful\u2026 she\u2019s so cool. So that comes over.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf there were ideas that were a little bit crazy, I\u2019d say, \u2018Should I do that? Could I do that?\u2019 And she\u2019d say, \u2018It\u2019s allowed.\u2019 And it was like, \u2018Yeah, that\u2019s brilliant.\u2019 It\u2019s a great philosophy in life: \u2018It\u2019s allowed.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

McCartney also expanded on his relationship with The Beatles, which was crumbling as the film begins but had largely been repaired by the end of the \u201970s. \u201cI loved [John], you know, I loved all the guys in The Beatles. We had so much in common, and we were like a little magical foursome. I try and think of how else it could have been, just with me, John, George and Ringo, it was a magic grouping. And we did OK.\u201d<\/p>\n

The film is entirely made up of archival footage, including a great deal of the McCartneys\u2019 home videos, many of which the man himself believed were gone. \u201cI thought I\u2019d lost it all, because in the in the \u201960s and \u201970s, you\u2019d have a lot of break-ins where you wouldn\u2019t really bother locking your door too much. So fans would come in and just nick a lot of stuff. That was how it was! But the kids in my office looked in every storage unit and every little drawer and they found it all.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNext to a presidential library,\u201d added Neville, \u201cPaul has the best archive, and I got very excited. It also helped that you married a photographer too, because Linda took pictures of everything and took home movies.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a heck of a story,\u201d said McCartney, \u201cso I think it would be nice if people took away that in my craziness and my enthusiasm, that we did this crazy story, but we stuck with it, and we made it work. So there\u2019s something brave about that. It didn\u2019t have to work out, you know, but it did.\u201d<\/p>\n

Man On The Run is in cinemas from today and on Amazon Prime Video from February 27.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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