Paul McCartney will never forget the moment he learned John Lennon was murdered.

“It was just too crazy,” McCartney, 83, wrote in his new oral history book, “Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run,” about finding out from his manager “early in the morning” on Dec. 8, 1980 that his former Beatles bandmate was gunned down by Mark David Chapman in New York City.

“We just said what everyone said; it was all blurred,” McCartney wrote, per Us Weekly . “It was the same as the Kennedy [assassination]. The same horrific moment, you know. You couldn’t take it in. I still haven’t taken it in. I don’t want to.”

McCartney recalled that he and his fellow Beatles, Ringo Starr and George Harrison, all went back to the studio after Lennon died.

“Nobody could stay home with that news,” the “Every N

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