Paul McCartney says that, following the death of his former Beatles bandmate John Lennon, there were times he feared for his life.
Speaking with Uncut, he adds he was on "high alert" after Lennon's shooting and recalls one time when he spotted several armed men outside his apartment.
"It was weird because in the days that followed it, I was sitting in the house," he began.
"We had a little perimeter fence, mainly to keep foxes out, because we had some chickens. I'm aware of security threats, so I'm on high alert and I look out and I see someone with a f*****g gun, like a machine gun, an assault rifle - 'Wha?!' He's in full military gear, and then I see there's a whole patrol of them. I'm going, 'Holy s**t, what's going on?'."
It turned out it was a false alarm, Macca notes, "It turned out to be army manoeuvres. [They said] 'Oh, sorry. Are these your woods?' I'd put two and two together and made a thousand. God, I don't know how I lived through it."
The North American leg of Macca's Out There tour begins at Nationwide Arena in Columbus on October 13.
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