Paul McCartney Grateful for Repaired Friendship Before John Lennon Died

Thirty four years ago today, on December 8, 1980, John Lennon was killed by a crazed "fan" who shot him in front of Lennon's apartment building in New York City.

Paul McCartney recently spoke out about how thankful he was that he and John had repaired their broken friendship before the world lost John forever.

According to time.com, on Saturday’s episode of 'The Jonathan Ross Show', McCartney spoke about how grateful he is that they had reconnected before Lennon was tragically shot to death in 1980 at age 40.

“I’m so glad because it would have been the worst thing in the world to have this great relationship that then soured and he gets killed, so there was some solace in the fact that we got back together. We were good friends,” McCartney shared.

Meanwhile, the world might lose access to John's songs on YouTube if Global Music Rights wins a battle brewing.

This week it emerged that the company's lawyers have sent letters to YouTube, demanding that it pull 20,000 songs off its site because it doesn't have a license to play them.

As reported by cityam.com, the fight is between YouTube and a group representing 46 artists and songwriters including John Lennon --as well as The Eagles, Pharrell Williams, Boston, Foreigner, Smokey Robinson, Chris Cornell, and George and Ira Gershwin-- which could result in all their songs being removed from YouTube.

Google, YouTube's parent company, countered that it does have the right licenses, which it negotiated for its subscription service, YouTube Music Key, launched last week.

John of course would want the issue to be resolved peacefully and fairly. :-)