Larry King’s guests last night were a lot more of interest to me than the bimbo grilling that’s scheduled for tonight.
As you may know, the two surviving Beatles, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr (along with the widows of John Lennon and George Harrison) sat down with LK to hype the first anniversary of the Las Vegas’ Fab 4 show, “Love.”
To see a clip from the interview, go here.
Here are some of the highlights:
McCartney and Starr on the influence of The Beatles’ music:
KING: Come on, you changed the world.
MCCARTNEY: We were just kids from Liverpool.
KING: Yes.
MCCARTNEY: And, yes, it is quite amazing, because as time goes on, it kind of becomes more and more of a phenomenon.
KING: It grows.
MCCARTNEY: And the young kids, you know, talk about it like as if it's history, which it is.
STARR: I think the most exciting thing is that, you know, we expect people our age to know the music. But, actually, a lot of the kids know the music. And if anything is left, we have left really good music. And that's the important part, not the mop tops or whatever, you know?
McCartney on the passing of George Harrison:
MCCARTNEY: Yes. We -- we all knew and he knew. But it was great. You know, in all these -- well, in, actually, in John's case -- I was going to say in all these tragedies. In George's case, in that tragedy, there were some good things about it. In John's case there weren't.
But with George, I got to see him...
KING: Oh, you did?
MCCARTNEY: ... A short time before he died. And it was just the best because we just -- we sat like this, if you don't mind. We sat and just stroking hands like this. And this is a guy, you know, I'd known since he was a little kid. And you don't stroke hands with guys like that. You know, it was just beautiful. And we just...
STARR: Not unless you're secure.
MCCARTNEY: We just spent a couple of hours and it was really lovely. It was like a favorite memory of mine.
Paul also deftly parried Larry’s “toughest” question of the night, an inquiry about “how are you doing” — obviously, a veiled reference to Paul and Heather’s unamicable split. “I’m doing surprisingly well,” said Sir Paul. “But I don’t talk about it, and that helps.”
