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Ughhhh this has so many flaws but here you go! This song ruined my life đ
And here are the still versions :(((
John and Paul also came to see [Len, while he was ill in hospital with tubercular meningitis]. âI could see a close bond had formed between them while Iâd been ill. They came to see me once out of hours, not at the proper visiting time, and had to escape through a French window into the garden when the nurse arrived. They then stood outside making silly faces at me as the nurse gave me various tests. âGeorge came to see me on his own. He was now a proper member of the group, but I didnât really know him well. He was at my school, but a year younger. I really appreciated his visit as he seemed so understanding and caring.â
The Quarrymen, Hunter Davies (2001)
John Lennon, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr during rehearsals for The Beatles' first appearance on Ready, Steady, Go, 4th October 1963. Part 1 (part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7, part 8, part 9, part 10)
With thanks to @i-am-the-oyster for bringing this video to my attention!
the fact that John and Paul had a modus operandi for getting people out of the band by making the manager do it....... i am obsessed
John Lennon and Paul McCartney outside BBC Paris Studios, Lower Regent Street, London. 4th April 1963 - part two (part one, part three)
It came as a welcome relief that John and Paul, along with Neil Aspinall, planned a quick trip to New York on May 11, where several press events had been scheduled to announce Apple Records in the States. Friends agreed that getting John away might do him a world of good; being alone, with just Paul to steady him, might have a calming influence. Paul was grappling with his own set of anxieties. âWe wanted a grand launch,â Paul said, âbut I had a strange feeling and was very nervous.â Drugs, he later admitted, may have been at the root of his problem. â Bob Spitz, The Beatles: The Biography
imagine co-owning a company with your boy bestie/creative partner and your employees end up calling you "[boy bestie]'s princess" how do you even live that one down
Quick itâs my best friends anniversary how do I make this about me????
one of my favorite johnpaul moments that i think about very often is that time when paul mccartney like idiot doofus the third told tv reporters that he's taken LSD and obviously got backlash and was explaining himself to a journalist and john jumped in like Yeah well the Tv Reporters shouldn't have fucking Reported on it it's not Paul's fault He got asked a Question what do you want him to do Lie? You want us to fucking Lie? This is all the fault of Big Media. Fuck you. and paul is sitting beside him like Yeah... :)
Paul McCartney writing too many people and dear friend in the same year is insane I feel bad for John
an important part of any feud is ruining your enemyâs whimsical schemes
they're so annoying....... like ur in the middle of an interview.....
John looking adorably awkward while on stage without the boys, collecting his âRunner Up: British Vocal Personalityâ prize at the NME Poll Winners All-Star Concert, 11th April 1965
John being incredibly relieved to see Paul again after what feels like an hour, and finally able to read that his trophy says âRunner Upâ
They were so tight it was like there was a telepathy between themâŠtheyâd look at each other and know instinctively what the other was thinking.
âIt was widely believed that Lennonâs relationship with McCartney was at its lowest point at this time, but Van Scyoc {Gary Van Scyoc, bassist on Some time in NYC, 1972} saw ample evidence that this simply wasnât the case. âYou would read in the New York Post that they were at each otherâs throats. I had a copy of the paper in my kit bag, and as I walk into the session, John is on the phone with Paul in Scotland for an hour-and-a-half and theyâre yakking it up. That doesnât really sound like two people who are at each others throats, does it?â
Richard White, Come Together : Lennon and McCartney In The Seventies
Once in a life Iâm a lucky man If I can find the kind of love Thatâs gonna last for me
Twice in a lifetime Is one of those unspoken dreams We usually reserve for fantasy
Who knows how we find love Stop before you give your answer Who knows when a mystery begins
I know, I know I know because itâs happening to me I know, I know
Twice in a Lifetime (1983).
I always love this because due to Paulâs narcissistic tendencies? Arrogance? Insecurity? All of the above? he canât even be honest about his own feelings of sadness about not telling John he loved him before he died. See it is really GEORGE who made this error and he was so moved abut GEORGEâS mistake that he had to write an entire song about it
Did paul really say THIS ONE was about john? First time I know!
being paul, he didn't say that directly, but he said this: "When you get those moments, and you always think, 'well, I'm saving it up, I'll tell them one day', and what happens with a lot of people, something like John for instance, he died, and I was lucky that for the last few months that he was alive we'd managed to get our relationship back on track [...] but George actually didn't, I don't think, get his relationship back, I think they were arguing right up until the end, which I'm sure is a source of great sadness to [George]. And I'm sure, in the feeling of the song, that George was always planning to tell John he loved him, but time ran out. So that's the song is about, it's like, 'there could never be a better moment than this one', now. Take this moment to say... I love you." (source)
To celebrate Ian Leslie's long anticipated biography of John & Paul, here is a look at a vintage McLennon article written by Michael Gerber all the way back in 2015. Don't skip the comments. Gerber responds to them and they bring out even more insight.
From the article: "A love affair between John and Paul, ended abruptly in March 1968 and followed by Paulâs departure from Rishikesh, explains a lot that the conventional narrative doesnât."
From the comments: "But this is an obsession for a significant subgroup of Beatle fandom, and a significantly thoughtful, well-read and (strange as it may seem given the conjectural nature of the topic) evidence-based subgroup at that. And Iâm as interested in that subgroup as I am in the unanswerable question itself."
Oh yeah! In my grubby little hands đđ»đ€Ł
"You'll never know how what sort of love they had for each other"--my favorite part â€ïž
Mike: I saw the âLennonâ play before I came over here and Our Kid comes out of it a wet and rather weedy character, which is absolute bullshit, you know.
Int: Not long after John died, I heard that at a showing of âLet It Beâ, the audience booed PaulâŠ
Mike: Tragic. That really is tragic because youâll never know how what sort of love they had for each other. You didn'tneed to put it into words. So itâs sad. And I found the âLennonâ thing, the âLennonâ play in Liverpool, itâs equally sad in the fact that it wasnât like that for one. They had a healthy regard for each other. John, in his own inimitable style, was like a brother in many respectsâŠtrying to tell Our Kid things and communicate with all his things, but you know, Johnny chose, âcause thatâs the way he was, to put it in public. He chose to wash his dirty linen in public. But youâll notice Our Kid never answered back, never replied because just as John has his right to do it his way, Our Kid also has his right to do it his way. But it doesnât mean just 'cause you donât get in a ring that youâre notâit doesnât mean that youâre a coward.