"we'd Go To These Parties, At The Time Of People Like Juliette Greco, The Whole French Bohemian Thing.

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

When George Harrison and Olivia Arias married in 1978, George hired the mariachi group, Sol de México, to perform at their private ceremony. Later in 1998 he hired them again to translate and arrange Dark Sweet Lady into a Spanish version for Olivia. He asked them to perform it 5 times at a party he arranged while they were visiting family and friends in Los Angeles (shown in these photos), and there is a tape of this version in the Harrison vaults. 

“He invited us to London […] We played at their wedding in 1976 (sic), they have always been in contact with us and when George died, he gave my foundation $30,000 to teach mariachi classes in Los Angeles. Olivia, invited us to make a presentation for the George Harrison Foundation together with the London Symphony; as well as a tour of Russia, with four concerts with Fernando de la Mora,” -  José Hernández, creator of Sol de México

The following article describes a separate occasion from the one above:

Beatle Without Borders (09 December 2001)

by Ruben Martinez

It was a warm fall evening in 1997 and on the patio of the Wilshire Ebell Theatre, mariachi trumpets were blasting. The occasion was a family reunion, and it was in all ways a typical Mexican fiesta–except for the presence of a handful of guests who stood out among the Old World elders and Mexican American kids. Huddled together at a table were George Harrison and some of his friends, including Indian sitar legend Ravi Shankar, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne of Electric Light Orchestra and session drummer extraordinaire Jim Keltner.

But the rock ‘n’ roll royalty was not the center of attention that evening. Harrison’s in-laws, Maria Louise and Esiquiel Arias, as matriarch and patriarch, had the spotlight. Harrison was there because of their daughter, Olivia Arias, whom he’d married in 1978, thereby gaining a huge Mexican American extended family in Los Angeles.

The former Beatle has been eulogized since his death last month for his cross-cultural collaborations, for popularizing the sitar in Western pop, for serving as a bridge between East and West. But perhaps his most fundamental cross-cultural endeavor was in his personal life.

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Mclennon Monday ❤️

faul believers when sgt peppers came out:

Spoilers for The Beatles but the gay one dies

walking martha and discussing house chores somewhere in 67

John and Paul talk to Italian TV reporter Gianni Bisiach backstage (Odeon Cinema, Cheltenham). (November 1st, 1963) (Note: More gifs from the same interview here and here.)

i can't get over john and paul using the other's signature for their own. the lennon mccartney thing from the very beginning was some sort of transcendental psychic pseudo blood-bond they made where every word one of them wrote equally belonged to the other. most artists strive to gain singular recognition but these two were more than willing to merge together into one creative superbeing. the attached signatures make that so literal that if this was shown in a movie or book it would seem on the nose. like okay. meld together your personal signifiers. be bound for eternity. whatever. i don't care.

I Wanna Hold Your Hand (Dir. Robert Zemeckis, 1978)

you write a gay ass pining song Possibly for your boy best friend and 44 years after ur stone cold in the GRAVE it wins a goddamn grammy bc he finished it for you. that happened to my good friend john lennon-

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???