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"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
This isnt ok
happy 5 years to this tweet
LINDA McCARTNEY during the ‘Give Ireland Back To The Irish’ rehearsal. 1972.
If you don't think Paul would be a difficult person to know irl you're a fake fan and don't deserve him. He has the heart of a sweet little boy and the mind of an egomaniacal dictator who runs a small, wealthy country with absolute, terrifying authority and a cult of personality so strong history will never pierce it and the truth will wither in darkness. Idk I guess you either get it or you don't.
i want mutuals that are as obsessed and delusional as i am abt the fucking beatles
call me when the biopics drop
fbi kinda cooked his ass
here you go everyone
in the end, the thing about the beatles is that they were just a group of young simple english guys. when they sang about love they were talking about sex, when they sang about sex they were talking about money, and when they sang about money they were talking about their unresolved homoerotic feelings towards one of their bandmates
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
"we'd go to these parties, at the time of people like juliette greco, the whole french bohemian thing. they'd all wear black turtleneck sweaters; i fancied juliette like mad. have you seen her? dark hair, real chanteuse, really happening."
he knows a thing of two about wearing black turtlenecks, he channeled his inner juliette while composing/recording michelle too, i wonder why he brought the look back for the get back sessions!!!! (smt like him wearing his quarrymen era shirt for the last photoshoot)
“I used to pretend I could speak French, because everyone wanted to be like Sacha Distel, or Juliette Greco was actually who you wanted to be like, even though she was a girl, because she had the feel of it all: that French existential thing, they were all in turtlenecks and black and down the bohemian clubs. It was bohemia!”
“So I used to sit around and murmur. It was my Maurice Chevalier meets Juliette Greco moment: me trying to be enigmatic to make girls think, “Who’s that very interesting French guy over in the corner?” I would literally use it as that, and John knew this was one of my ploys.”
—Paul McCartney, Many Years from Now
“I'd always had a fantasy about a woman who would be a beautiful, intelligent, dark-haired, high-cheek-boned, free-spirited artist (à la Juliette Greco).
My soul mate.”
—John Lennon, Skywriting by Word of Mouth
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.
paul mccartney lies are like john and i werent gay bob dylan lies are like i used to be a male prostitute and slept in a wet cardboard box all alone
Paul and Martha
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-
"If no one claims me in 30 days, I'M YOURS"
Paul McCartney covering Twenty Flight Rock in One Hand Clapping (filmed in 1974)
“I went round to see [The Quarrymen] afterwards in the church hall place. I talked to them, just chatting and showing off. I showed them how to play ‘Twenty Flight Rock’ and told them all the words. They didn’t know it. Then I did ‘Bee Bop a L[ula],’ which they didn’t know properly either. Then I did my Little Richard bit, went through me whole repertoire in fact. I remember this beery old man getting nearer and breathing down me neck as I was playing. ‘What’s this old drunk doing?’ I thought. Then he said ‘Twenty Flight Rock’ was one of his favourites. So I knew he was a connoisseur."
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“I was pissed that day,” says John. “So I probably wasn’t all that clued up. I was very impressed by Paul playing “Twenty Flight Rock.’ He could obviously play the guitar. I half thought to myself ‘He’s as good as me.’ I’d been kingpin up to then. Now, | thought, ‘If I take him on, what will happen?’ It went through my head that I'd have to keep him in line if I let him join. But he was good, so he was worth having. He also looked Elvis. I dug him."
- Paul McCartney and John Lennon on meeting at the Woolton Village Fête on 6 July 1957. Within Hunter Davies, The Beatles: The Authorised Biography (1968)
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)
there’s a lot of bullshit lennon/mccartney quotes out there, misattributed by biases in biographers or straight-up fabrications. but there’s also “if i was a girl”. there’s also “if he had been a woman”. there’s also “is this a self-portrait?” there’s “in bed.” there’s “maybe that would’ve satisfied it”. there’s “nothing to worry about”, and “life begins at 40”, and “it’s only me.” there’s “the emperor of eternity”. “he chose me.” “i’m still in love with you”. there’s “i can always deny that it was ever written about him.” so who cares
every time an article says 'Now and Then used AI' with absolutely no nuance, this is who you're hurting btw
Get Back Part I / Part III
We’ve got the insane Paul quotes list… now opening this thread for nominations of insane things John has said about Paul
Reblog and add your suggestions. Please include a source if you’ve got it, or a rough idea of where/when it’s from if not
Ta!
I'll start with this one!
“When we sang together, Paul and I would share the same microphone. I’d be close enough to kiss him [...] So we’d be playing these concerts, in front of thousands of people, but the only thing I could see was Paul’s face. He was always there next to me – I could always feel his presence. It’s what I remember most about those concerts.”
Oh good, John and Paul are talking in song lyrics again [sob]