Paul McCartney At Tribeca Film Festival: John Lennon ‘Had A Really Tragic Life’

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There was no mention of artificial intelligence Thursday at Tribeca Festival’s Paul McCartney talk with Conan O’Brien. Instead of going into further detail about his recent plans to use AI technology to extricate the vocals of his former bandmate, John Lennon, from an old demo to create a final Beatles record, McCartney took a trip down memory lane with O’Brien.

During the hour-long entry in the Tribeca fest’s “Storytellers” series, O’Brien displayed various photos from McCartney’s new book, 1964: Eyes of the Storm, which the singer/songwriter described in detail. “It’s so lovely for me to see these memories and just remind me of where we were, what we did in those days,” McCartney said.The book features 275 largely unseen photographs shot by McCartney, taken between the end of 1963 through early 1964, when The Beatles became an international sensation.

McCartney thought he had lost the photos until recently, when Sarah Brown, a photo archivist in London, found them.  “What I love about (the photos) is the innocence,” McCartney told the crowd at Tribeca’s Performing Arts Center. “We didn’t know we were going to (become) famous.

We really wanted to be (famous), but we didn’t know.”Candid photos of John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr were displayed during the conversation, which was recorded for a future episode of O’Brien’s podcast, “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend.”In one image, Lennon is sitting in the backseat of a car wearing thick-lensed glasses.