{"id":254904,"date":"2025-09-26T00:50:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T00:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/254904\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T00:50:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T00:50:13","slug":"the-rock-star-who-almost-helped-facilitate-a-john-lennon-and-paul-mccartney-reunion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/254904\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rock Star Who (Almost) Helped Facilitate a John Lennon and Paul McCartney Reunion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hanging out with two friends who haven\u2019t been on speaking terms for a while can be awkward for everyone else in the room, and we have to imagine that the rock star who nearly helped facilitate a John Lennon and Paul McCartney<\/a> must have felt the same way. (Although, we\u2019re sure the c****** helped.)<\/p>\n

The mid-1970s, 3 a.m. hangout sesh almost produced what would have been one of the most iconic and flamboyant rock \u2018n\u2019 roll supergroups the world had ever seen. While this never came to fruition, we did get a great 1975 hit out of the musical partnership between Lennon and his hangout host.<\/p>\n

A John Lennon and Paul McCartney Reunion?<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the first few years of the 1970s, the world was still reeling from the then-recent breakup of The Beatles. The news was still fresh in everyone\u2019s minds, even as each member pursued their solo musical endeavors. So, it must have been somewhat shocking for David Bowie, high on c******, to answer his hotel room door at 3 a.m. and see John Lennon and Paul McCartney, two men who were presumably not on speaking terms, standing outside of his suite at the Pierre Hotel.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe two of them had been out on the town for the evening,\u201d Bowie explained in a 2004 interview<\/a>. \u201c[John] said, \u2018Can we come in? I\u2019m sick.\u2019\u201d Naturally, Bowie welcomed the two ex-Beatles into his hotel suite, where he had been busy creating short films with his new Sony reel-to-reel videotape recorder.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was great,\u201d Bowie said. \u201cWe spent the evening just rapping and talking. There was kind of a strange thing between [John and Paul]. There\u2019s a little bit of distance every now and again. But that must have been the first time they\u2019d been back together since the big bust-up.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Ziggy Stardust creator said Lennon and McCartney posed the idea of the three of them creating a rock \u2018n\u2019 roll supergroup as David Bowie and the Beatles, or DBB. \u201cI think they wanted to call it DDB,\u201d Bowie recalled. \u201cBut, you know, the next morning, it just never came to anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

David Bowie Did End up Working With One of the Beatles<\/strong><\/p>\n

Out of the two Beatles who visited his suite at the Pierre Hotel that fateful night in the mid-1970s, David Bowie undoubtedly connected with John Lennon more than Paul McCartney. Bowie was always cordial with the latter McCartney, and the pair seemed to share a pleasant rapport. However, Bowie wasn\u2019t afraid to admit McCartney\u2019s music wasn\u2019t his style, even if he did think Macca was a nice guy. On the other hand, Bowie thought incredibly highly of Lennon as a person, socialist, musician, and fellow dry humorist.<\/p>\n

Bowie and Lennon eventually collaborated, although it wasn\u2019t the David Bowie and The Beatles supergroup that the trio imagined at 3 a.m. Lennon co-wrote and recorded Bowie\u2019s 1975 track, \u201cFame\u201d, during an impromptu writing session at the studio. \u201cIt was John who started riffing on \u2018Fame\u2019,\u201d Bowie later remembered<\/a>. \u201cHe was screaming. I was writing the lyrics. It all came together so quickly and so brilliantly. It was an incredibly intoxicating time, and I can\u2019t quite believe that we didn\u2019t try and write more things together because just being around him was breathtaking. He had all this energy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bowie said he \u201cdug\u201d Lennon\u2019s songwriting in particular, calling it \u201cmuscular.\u201d In a different interview<\/a>, Bowie said, \u201cI don\u2019t like much of [Paul\u2019s] music. He\u2019s a nice guy.\u201d (Though, to be fair to McCartney, Bowie already seemed to be peeved at the interviewer when he offered his surprisingly curt answer.)<\/p>\n

Photo by Douglas Elbinger\/Getty Images<\/p>\n