Sir Paul McCartney has admitted that he has conversations with his guitars.The Beatles legend said he feels guilty if he hasn’t played with one of his instruments for a while.And the superstar also mentioned that he even apologised to one because he had left it alone and told it: "You must be lonely."Macca, 79, explained: "The guitar was propped up on a window seat in the corner of my living room in the country, in Sussex."It struck me I hadn’t played it for a while, and I looked over and sort of thought, 'Oh my gosh, there’s something wrong with this, I should be playing you, and you must be lonely.'"I felt quite guilty in a minor way, so I went over and started playing, and then the song that came out was me talking directly to the guitar and talking about all the times it had helped me."He added: "We always used to say that when you sit down with your guitar to write a song, you’re telling it your secrets, which then become a song for the world."But at that moment, when you’re alone, the guitar is your confidante.
You cradle it. It also looks like a woman. There’s lots of stuff going on there."Sir Paul has laid bare the stories behind a whopping 154 songs that he wrote in The Beatles and beyond in his new book The Lyrics.Four years ago he penned Confidante as a solo artist after confiding all sorts of secrets to his guitars.He said: "There was a cupboard underneath the staircase, a little triangular thing like where Harry Potter grew up."It was normally where you put your house phone, but it was also a good place if you were looking for a hideaway cupboard, which I was.
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