The Beatles | And Your Bird Can Sing (Isolated Laughter Track)

Int: It’s possible - you know this as well as anybody does. It’s possible that all of you will be best known not for your individual work but because you were Beatles. Does that trouble you at all?

George: No, not at all because who are we anyway, you know? I mean, even if they knew me as me - George Harrison - they don’t really know me. It doesn’t matter what they remember you for. It’s really what you attain for your own personal self that counts. 

“Y’know, it’s something that other people see us as The Beatles, and I try to see us as The Beatles, but I can’t.” - Scene and Heard (1967)  

“To be able to deal with these people thinking you were some wonderful thing - it was difficult to come to terms with. I was feeling, you know, like nothing. Even now I look back and see, relative to a lot of other groups, The Beatles did have something. But it’s a bit too much to accept that we’re supposedly the designers of this incredible change. In many ways we were just swept along with everybody else.” -  Rolling Stone (1987)

“I don’t mean to sound mysterious or try to baffle anyone, but when people come up to me expecting me to be just like what they thought a Beatle would be, they’re disappointed. I never was a Beatle, except musically. I don’t think any of us was. What is a Beatle anyway? I’m not a Beatle or an ex-Beatle or even the George Harrison. I’m just a man. Very ordinary.” - Men Only (1978)

“Like Chance, the main character in Being There (one of George’s favorite books), he wanted to just ‘be there’ in his garden, in his solitude, with his hands in the dirt. He didn’t want to ‘be’ anything but a man who loved music, the earth, women, and God.” - Chris O’Dell

Here is the Sunday Times McLennon article in full for non-British readers:

It's a weekly series apparently so I'm going to have to buy this Murdoch shitrag again next week, the things I do for you guys

John Lennon on the set of How I Won The War at the Desierto de Tabernas in Almería, Spain | September 1966

the paper copy is even more ridiculous lmAO

I've been feeling bad since my friend pushed me into this fandom. I hope they're happy in another universe

John Lennon in Stuart Sutcliffe’s studio, 45a Eimsbütteler Strasse, Altona, Hamburg, photographed by Astrid Kirchherr. (May, 1962)

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Why can’t we go for other people to heaven? John asks me that—he said he would go for Stuart to heaven because Stuart was such a marvelous boy and he is nothing.

— Astrid Kirchherr, letter to Millie Sutcliffe. (May 30th, 1962)

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craziest beatle interview ive ever read (playboy)

Q: "What is for you the height of misery?" John Lennon: "Hot feet."

Q: "Where would you like to live?" John Lennon: "Here."

Q: "What is for you the ideal of earthly happiness?John Lennon: "Now + then."

Q: "Which mistakes have you the most indulgence for?" John Lennon: "Mine."

Q: "Who are the heroes of novels you prefer?" John Lennon: "Me."

Q" Who is your favourite historical personality?" John Lennon: "Me."

Q: "Who are your favourite heroines in real life?" John Lennon: Me.

Q: "Who are your favourite heroines in fiction?" John Lennon: "Me."

Q: "Who is your favourite painter?" John Lennon: "Me."

Q: "Who is your favourite musician?" John Lennon: "Me."

Q: "What quality do you prefer in a woman?" John Lennon: "Tits."

Q: "What quality do you prefer in a man?" John Lennon: "No tits."

Q: "What is your favourite virtue?" John Lennon: "None."

Q: "What is your favourite occupation?" John Lennon: "Floating."

Q: "Who would you have liked to be?" John Lennon: Pope anything.

Q: "What is the chief feature of your character?" John Lennon: "An unearthly."

Q: "What do you appreciate most in your friends?" John Lennon: "Admiration."

Q: "What is your main default?" John Lennon: "Hate."

Q: "What is your dream of happiness?" John Lennon: "Black knickers."

Q: "What would be your greatest misfortune?" John Lennon: "Lose my virginity."

Q: "What would you like to be?" John Lennon: "Happy."

Q: "What is your favourite colour?" John Lennon: "Rainbow."

Q: "What is your favourite flower?" John Lennon" "Forgotten."

Q: "What is your favourite bird?" John Lennon: "Heckle."

Q: "Who are your favourite poets?" John Lennon: "Me."

Q: "What are your favourite names?" John Lennon: "God, Jesus."

Q: "What do you abhor most?" John Lennon: "God, Jesus."

Q: "Which historical character do you despise most?" John Lennon: "All of them."

Q: "What military event do you admire most?" John Lennon: "None at all I'm afraid."

Q: "What reform do you admire most?" John Lennon: "They have not passed it."

Q: "What natural gift would you would like to have?" John Lennon: "Flying."

Q: "How would you like to die?" John Lennon: "Insane but quiet."

Q: "What is the present state of your mind?" John Lennon: "Light to variable."

Q: "What is your motto?" John Lennon: "Me."

— John Lennon for Marcel Proust from Rave Magazine, October, 1965.