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— John Lennon, Hit Parader: Lennon-McCartney Songalog – Who wrote what. (extracts) (April, 1972)
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???
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reading stories about paul mccartney being an insensitive arrogant asshole frowning and shaking my head to let everyone know i'm disapproving of his actions while also trying to hide my huge fucking boner under a pillow sweat dripping down my face knees nearly buckling with arousal
paul and linda mccartney photographed by john lennon, 1974
i know im talking w the wall basically but i love this picture
do you guys ever think about paul getting married on julia's birthday
like ok maybe it was just a coincidence but it explains john's reaction to me bcuz yeah of course he'd be going insane trying to get married w yoko 2 days later in paris *of all places* (and failing) and then actually doing it in gibraltar a week after... just saying
March, 12th.
I really don’t remember whether or not I invited any of the band to the wedding. Why not? I’m a total bastard, I suppose – I don’t know, really. Maybe it was because the group was breaking up. We were all pissed off with each other. We certainly weren’t a gang any more. That was the thing. Once a group’s broken up like that, that’s it. - Paul McCartney, in Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now, by Barry Miles, 1998
John, George and Ringo weren’t at the wedding, which might have been because of the tensions of the time, or because we decided to do it quickly. It seems like an important point now but it wasn’t at the time – it was just the two of us wanting to get married quietly. My dad wasn’t there either – I’m not sure he was pleased with me about that, but my best excuse was that it was the spirit of the times. We didn’t want a big fuss. - Paul McCartney, Wingspan, 2002
also i remember yoko saying john got inside the car, mad as hell and told her they were getting married and she (according to herself in that thing i saw) was like ... yea ok, like he didnt even ask so it wasnt a proposal at all, i cant find it tho but i've read it a lot of times, also prior to this there's the apple employee's version where john got in, saw like a zine or a newspaper or smt and got so mad he said he was gonna fire whoever did that lmao bc it was a pic of paul w linda announcing/congratulating them for their marriage and then he wrote things and I SWEAR it's real bcuz i did some deep research back when i found about it but i dont know how to look it up
the thing about the beatles is its a romance it's a tragedy it's a comedy it's a coming of age story its a polycule it's everything it's nothing they were bigger than jesus they were a bloody good band they were just a band who made it very, very big, that's all
faul believers when sgt peppers came out:
Spoilers for The Beatles but the gay one dies
i constantly think abt paul being marxist when young cuz i dont really know much abt his political views later but i love me a mccommunist
is it really fucking true that paul wrote call me back again to be a DUET for him and john or is it just a theory? bcuz i mean, could be... could also not... but is there any proof??? (besides the lyrics *that are pretty much obvious* and the live version i mean)
honest to god I keep forgetting that John Lennon is dead I think about his annoying ass so often that it's like he's still with us
geo's one (1) visual for music
John was a nail-biter too: a study
'It was just one of his little things... and I was very pleased to see that, 'cause I'd forgotten that...' - Paul McCartney, June 2023
They look like the two bitchy gay art students who judge everyone for not being avant-gay enough
John Lennon and Paul McCartney on their way to Slough, 5th November 1963 - part 1 (part 2, part 3, part 4) (x)
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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