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"Sir Paul McCartney has reportedly dismissed John Lennon&amp;#039;s image as a rock &amp;#039;n&amp;#039; roll wild man, insisting that his former Beatles bandmate was &amp;quot;soft-centred&amp;quot;. According to Contactmusic, the &amp;#039;Hey Jude&amp;#039; icon explained that Lennon&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;hard&amp;quot; persona is not a true reflection of the late star&amp;#039;s personality. He said: &amp;quot;This is the trouble with history, with journalism. John said so much crap that he later said he hadn&amp;#039;t meant. It&amp;#039;s bulls**t.  &amp;quot;The image of John is seriously flawed because he was not the hard, mad man that people think he was... He was a very soft-centred guy and we had a lot in common.&amp;quot; He added: &amp;quot;Whatever bad things John said about me, he would also slip his glasses to the end of his nose and say, &amp;#039;I love you&amp;#039;.&amp;quot; McCartney recently denied claims that he is planning to retire after his forthcoming world tour. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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