Sir Paul McCartney has still been using John Lennon as a "judge" of his songwriting.
The Beatles legend admits he'll consider scrapping lyrics if he doesn't think his late bandmate would have approved of them.
Speaking to Billboard he explained: "I imagine myself back into a room with John, and I'll think [about a lyric], 'Ugh, that's no good.' And I'll imagine him saying, 'No, can't do that.' So I'm using him as a sort of judge of what I'm doing."
The musician found himself feeling emotional recently at his wife's birthday party in Tokyo, as the guests were entertained by Queen and Beatles tribute bands, overwhelming him because of the uniting power of music.
"I had a kind of very emotional moment when we were sitting there - it could have been the alcohol.
"And I'm thinking, 'My God.' The power of British music finally came home to me. All the way across the world, in Japan, these guys were breaking down Queen songs, and the others Beatles songs. They were replicating them amazingly. They got all the orchestra parts on 'I Am the Walrus.' They may not even speak the language that well, but they speak these songs beautifully.
"I should know that we've had that effect, because it's historically true. But it doesn't always come home to you in quite the way it did that night. I was welling up and I was [thinking] 'I can't well up to a Queen tribute band.'"
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