So Uhhh… Yeah

Make it stop.

“John never looked at anyone the way he looked at Paul.” -an actual quote said by Cynthia Powell.

early beatles writing sessions

paul: okay, we have to come up with some ideas for the next album. so i was thinking—

john: i have an idea for a song about how im a piece of shit fat ugly bitch with no friends and is hated by everyone and should die. i’m going to call it Dumbfuck Asshole About To Kill Himself.

paul: ……right! cool! i was thinking more along the lines of “i love you girl and want to dance with you” but that’s really good too!

Innocence lost.

Make it stop. Ouch.

“Even the little peripheral things become interesting. And I love hearing that, because it’s my story. All these little things, like you say, things that you thought had gone away. There’s one thing, I don’t know whether they used it somewhere, but I was on a very early Beatles session when we were downstairs and the producer was upstairs. I’d forgotten to bring my pick to the session. We used to call it a “plec,” like a plectrum — just a little thing between me and John. And I said, “Oh God, I forgot my plec.” He said, “Where’d you leave it?” I said, “Back in the hotel. It’s in my suitcase or something.” And he’d go, “Oh, soft head.””

— Paul McCartney, Rolling Stone (2021)

This is a lot of things. This is a thing, as David Lynch would say. What this also is, is fucking hot as fuck.

This is what they are talking about in that quote about Paul setting John on people he didn’t like and enjoying watching John eviscerate people.

This is leader of the gang level bullying and Paul was never in John’s gang. These two arrogant fucks knew they were special.

🙌

now they're frightened of leaving it

everyone's weaving it

Really Love You

Ringo love must feel so good.

Jesus wept.

The Beatles leaving their suite at the New York Plaza, 7th February 1964

I love the chaos of this scene. Ringo listening to their song on the radio. John calling Neil ‘Nell’. Paul and George being silly boys until John walks out and Paul’s brain grinds to a halt. Paul trying to finish his bit when his brain eventually comes back to life. Ringo strolling out half an hour after everyone else.

Good times.

Slow-mo gif to appreciate the emotional journey that Paul goes on…

Shush.

“I told John on the phone the other day that at the beginning of last year I was annoyed with him. I was jealous because of Yoko, and afraid about the break-up of a great musical partnership. It’s taken me a year to realise that they were in love. Just like Linda and me."

— Paul, Evening Standard (April 21st, 1970) X

Top tier Paul McCartney photo.

Abbey Road studios, 1974, photographed by Linda McCartney