Honest To God I Keep Forgetting That John Lennon Is Dead I Think About His Annoying Ass So Often That

Genuinely surprised if you haven't come across these quotes from the following YouTube videos yet: "The woman who saved Paul McCartney | 60 Minutes Australia" @6:25 & "Paul McCartney sets record straight on relationship with Lennon | Parkinson Interview 12 Oct 1997" @22:20. Seems to me like Paul's literally admitted he's not straight already and I'm living for it even if it flew under the radar

“Did he love you?”

“Yeah, I think he did actually. It wasn’t a spiky relationship at all, it was very warm, very close, and very loving.....homosexuality was still largely illegal sure...but then the business came and the lawyers arrived...”

PLEASE LISTEN TO THIS I’M MELTING - 22:20

This isnt ok

I love watching people living their domestic life and seeing how that goes. I always thought Jane and Paul were very tense. I do remember very clearly an evening at Cavendish Avenue where she wanted the window shut and he wanted the window open. That really was like a Joe Orton play. It was fucking great. I sat there all night watching Jane get up and open it, and Paul close it, and it was just like, nothing was said. And quite soon after that they split up, which of course I could have told anyone they would.

- Marianne Faithfull within Barry Miles, Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now (1997)

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Visits to Paul and Jane Asher weren't quite as relaxed as those Mick and I spent with George and Pattie. With hindsight I can see that they were rather uptight. There were constant little frictions. Mick and I were very close and we would never have done anything like fret about windows being open or closed, or anything as petty as that, but this is what happens when couples start to come apart.

- Marianne Faithfull, Memories, Dreams and Reflections (2007)

My favourite part of the Venus and Mars re-release email is how the little graphics perfectly represent Paul’s attempts to reconnect with John in the mid-70s

The Beatles

"The thing you must remember is that I'm the number one John Lennon fan. I love him to this day and I always did love him." - Paul McCartney

Terrified they’re gonna make Yoko faultless and boring in the biopics to correct previous false narratives. Please, just because she didn’t break up the Beatles doesn’t mean she’s not a calculating control freak!!! On my hands and knees begging them to portray a complicated woman complicatedly!!! Sam Mendes can you hear me???

Paul + Royston Ellis + The Poem

Break me in Easy

Easy, easy, break me in easy. Sure I’m big time, cock-sure and brash, but easy, easy, break me in easy. Sure they’ve been others, I know the way… (Royston Ellis, From Rave published by Scorpion Press, May 1960) 

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“I suppose I read these at the session attended by John Lennon (and Bill Harry) in the audience at Liverpool University. However, the poem I read backed by the Beetles was called “Break me in Easy” and Paul [McCartney] remembers it to this day (he quoted it to me when we met by chance in a bar in Paris in 2006).”  (Royston Ellis) -

“When I met Paul [McCartney] in the bar at Le Bristol in Paris in 2006, after a few minutes of conversation, he - without any prompting from me - quoted the poem to me, but suggested it was better if it began: “Easy, easy squeeze me in easy.”

It was pretty impressive to hear Paul remembering one of my poems 46 years after we performed it together at the Jacaranda in Liverpool!” (Royston Ellis)

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“However, I did meet Paul again by chance at Le Bristol Hotel in Paris in 2006 and he immediately recalled the poem I had performed with them and even recited the opening lines: “Easy, easy, break me in easy.” He also recalled then that I had told him in 1960 that statistically one in five people were gay and he wondered which one of the Beatles and their associates was the “fifth man.”

(Royston Ellis)

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“Paul worried it was about “shagging sailors” while attempting to find the right guitar notes to set it off.

Ellis’s bisexuality was an eye-opener for the Beatles, as he remembers: “There was an expression, ‘Do you still love me?,’ and I think I must have said it to John because all the eyebrows went up ‘What?!’ And I gave them a lecture about the Soho scene and said they shouldn’t worry, because one in four men were queer although they mightn’t know it.” The remark bit deep. As Paul says, “We looked at each other and wondered which one it was. ‘It must be one of us, because there’s four of us…Oh fucking hell, it’s not me, is it?’”

Mark Lewisohn, “1960”, The Beatles - All These Years: Tune In

i want mutuals that are as obsessed and delusional as i am abt the fucking beatles

get back: summarised