Lennon & McCartney By Richard Avedon.

Aidan Quinn as Paul McCartney and Jared Harris as John Lennon          TWO OF US (2000) DIR. MICHAEL LINDSAY-HOGG

Lennon-McCartney in (some of) the Beatles dramas

“Paul said he’s going to do the Hall of Fame speech. I really think I’m doing it just to give Paul a night out. He likes to keep busy.”

— Ringo Starr, on being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Rolling Stone, April 15th, 2015

“I don’t know [why we’re reviving it now]. Paul must’ve had a slow day. He says, ‘You know that track we did? Do you want to work on that?’”

— Ringo Starr, on the ‘final’ Beatles track, Variety, July 7th, 2023

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PAUL MCCARTNEY BORN: JUNE 18, 1942 “I don’t take me seriously. If we get some giggles, I don’t mind.”

John, Paul, George, Ringo …….& Martha (1967)

the revolution wasn't bad we hit the streets with all we had

JOHN: I’m not a tough guy. I’ve always had to have a facade of being tough to protect myself from other people’s neuroses. But really, I’m a very sensitive and weak guy. PAUL: John and I were two of the luckiest people in the twentieth century to have found each other. The partnership, the mix, was incredible. We both had submerged qualities that we each saw and knew. I had to be the bastard as well as the nice melodic one and John had to have a warm and loving side for me to stand him all those years. John and I would never have stood each other for that length of time had we been just one-dimensional. (1997) GEORGE: John Lennon is a saint, and he’s heavy-duty, and he’s great, and I love him. But at the same time, he’s such a bastard. (1974) RINGO: I was a big fan of John’s. I always felt he had the biggest heart, and he wasn’t the cynic that people thought. He had the biggest heart and he was the fastest. He was in and out. While we were still getting in he was out and on to the next round. (1995)

Happy White Album release day this album has everything: suicide communism Freudian undertones a 1930s showtune a lullaby and what is genuinely the most unsettling piece of music released in the 20th century. Oh and While My Guitar Gently Weeps

John Lennon & Paul McCartney at the ABC Cinema in Huddersfield, 29th November 1963