However, Paul McCartney recounted to the Express in 2011 that they ultimately passed on the gig. John Lennon's life was tragically cut short outside his New York residence on December 8, 1980.

McCartney was present at the start of the session, but he’d left before the Beatles recorded the version that appears on the album. He explained why to his biographer Barry Miles for his 1997 ...

At the top of the paper is a "Paul McCartney US" letterhead. The handwritten letter starts, "Dear Q," and continues, "It's impossible to sum up in a short letter how & why I love John, but here ...