PSYCHIC JOHN EDWARD ON CARL PERKINS, PAUL MCCARTNEY and JOHN LENNON : DECEMBER 8 1980 JOHN LENNON'S DEATH

page 151 of CROSSING OVER by John Edward

(CT: It's 1981 and Paul McCartney has sent Carl Perkins a ticket to fly to the Caribbean where he and George Martin have a recording studio. Carl plays guitar on the "Tug of War" album and spends eight days with Paul and Linda McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, and Beatles' producer George Martin.)

"As the time was drawing near for me to go home, I was sitting out on the patio, Carl told Dominic Ambrosio and his camera, his guitar sitting on his lap and looking like a part of him.

(Carl speaking)... "Sometimes I can sing it but I can't say it, and that night before, I wrote a song. And in the morning, I went down to the studio and said to Paul and Linda, 'I'm not good at saying good-bye, but I wrote this song last night, and I want to play it for you.' It was called 'My Old Friend'..."

Carl sang it now for Dominic with the extra emotional emphasis on the refrain: My old friend, won't you think about me every now and then...

"Well halfway through the song, I see Paul is really crying, tears flowing down his face," Carl said. "And he stepped outside. I said to Linda, 'Linda, I didn't mean to upset him.' She says, 'Carl Perkins, how did you know?' I said, 'Darlin', I don't know what yer talkin' about. How did I know what?"

John Lennon had been killed only months before outside his apart met building, the Dakota in New York. Linda explained that, although it wasn't publicly known, only days before his death, she and Paul had visited John and Yoga at the Dakota. At the end of the visit, as they were saying good-bye, John said to Paul, "Think of me every now and then, my old friend."

"Linda put her arms around me, :" Carl said now on a cold January day in Tennessee sixteen years later, "and she said, "Thank you, Carl, he needed that."

DEBBIE PERKINS ON HER DAD (FROM JOHN EDWARD'S BOOK "CROSSING OVER")

page 163

"My father was bigger than life to me and to many. He penned many songs that were recorded by many people. But he was Daddy to me. Not only was he the greatest daddy a girl could ever have, he was my best friend. From the other side, my father sends me signs that he is alive and that he will always be with me. Death is only a separation in the flesh and not in the spirit. The past year has been difficult. I long to see my father one last time, and yet I feel closer to him in so many ways now that I can't physically see him every day. I know he watches over me and speaks to my heart."

NOTE: Debbie went to John Edward to talk to the dead, and this book recounts that experience.

CROSSING OVER
The Stories Behind the Stories
John Edward C 2001

Jodere Group, Inc. Publishers

SURPRISING CARL PERKINS STORY IN JOHN EDWARD'S NEW BOOK "CROSSING OVER" AND CARLS WORK FOR ABUSED CHILDREN

Christine here: Recently I picked up a copy of JOHN EDWARD'S new book CROSSING OVER.

I wasn't expecting to run into a story about Carl Perkins, his daughter Debbie, and Paul McCartney!

So very many of the people Wes worked with or was inspired by or made friends with have passed on. A couple years ago we were lighting a candle every time we heard the news. Since then we usually write an acknowledgement, a little obit, and the list gets longer.

Both Wes and I believe we have experienced a ghost or two in our lifetimes and are intrigued by the mystical.

Carl Perkins was a heavy smoker who was diagnosed with throat cancer in 1991. According to the book (page 148) he made a deal with God that, if he came out of surgery with a voice, he would do good. He started THE CARL PERKINS CENTER FOR THE PREVENTION OF CHILD ABUSE, which became the largest center in the country for abused children.

Carl grew up in Tennessee and was sold by his family to a farmer. He was beaten and abused. When he was facing cancer he finally started to deal with this part of his past.

We're linking here to the EXCHANGE CLUB : CARL PERKINS CENTER which has expanded to 13 Counties in West Tennessee!