News Summary

• John Lennon and Paul McCartney were bandmates and best friends.
• After the breakup of The Beatles, they had no contact for a few years.
• Lennon took a five-year hiatus from music to raise Sean with his partner, Yoko Ono.
• It wasn't until he heard McCartney's "Coming Up" in 1980 that he felt inspired to return to the studio.
• "It would have been the worst thing in the world for me if he'd been killed while we were still on bad terms," McCartney said.