Gabriela Mistral, from a letter to Doris Dana c. January 1950 (translated by Velma García-Gorena)

Sometimes, I think about how John specifically chose to sing ‘I Saw Her Standing There’ onstage with Elton at the Madison Square Garden concert, and chose to introduce the song as being by an old estranged fiancé of his named Paul, all the while wondering what Paul would think about it, and I’m left speechless.

“On that flight back to New York, John and Elton were both excited about the show. ‘We’ll have to rehearse,’ Elton said, and we discussed which songs it would be best to play. ‘Imagine’ was suggested, but John said he didn’t want to do just the greatest hits, and because Elton was already performing ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’, it made sense not to play it. John proposed ‘I Saw Her Standing There’. There was something about performing a Paul McCartney number that got him going. He knew no one would expect him to do that.”

Tony King (The Tastemaker, 2023)

“We tried to think of a number to finish off with so I can get out of here and be sick, and we thought we'd do a number of an old, estranged fiancé of mine, called Paul. This is one I never sang. It's an old Beatle number, and we just about know it.”

John introducing “I Saw Her Standing There” at Madison Square Garden, November 1974.

ALAN: I wondered exactly how you might be feeling when you closed the set with Elton, singing ‘I Saw Her Standing There’, and your jamming with Elton John and the fellas, that you never had the other three illustrious gentlemen around you. Did you feel anything strange about that?

JOHN: Well it was double strange because I used to sing a third-part harmony underneath Paul on ‘I Saw Her Standing There’. So I never actually sang the lead vocal. It was a really strange experience singing an early Beatle song that I never really sang, and singing it with somebody else. I was actually thinking, ‘Oh, I wonder what Paul will think of this’ (laughs).

John Lennon interviewed by Alan Freeman, January 1975.

very interesting that people automatically assume rpf as having sexual content. lets have rpf of the beatles struggling with tax

All the Beatles are alive!!! John and Paul make a live together… I wish it was real

if you're not following at least one person who posts beatles rpf are you even on tumblr. it's an important food group. along with that 1 person who still posts abt an obscure 80s movie every single day and 3-4 mid 20s trans women who all follow each other and have a super specific robot/computer fetish that mostly manifests in blogging abt a robot girlfriend overheating like a macbook. it's not about what you're into it's about anthropology

I've been too embarrassed to post my beatles art on my main acc so i decided to bite the bullet and make a beatles sideblog. uhmmmm here's paul

me and my big stupid cock... 😞 *kicks a tin can down the street with my head hunched over*

Paul’s big jacket

don't fucking pretend to be above run for your life because it's problematic please let's not do the song and dance you're beatles fans

“John It’s so playful——- I’m married”

the one time mclennon doesn’t top and tail it

does anyone know the source of this genderbent beatles piece. and where can i find more

“Q: So much time with The Beatles, I imagine the loss of John Lennon is still with you… A: Yes, it was a terrible time. The Beatles didn’t exist any more, but I remained friends with each and every one of them. And I was actually working with Paul when it happened, we were working on Tug of War together. And we were due to go into the studio that day. I was in my country house, he was in his, we were going to drive into London and meet in the studio. And I woke up that morning by a phone call by my bed at 6:00. And I was suddenly on the air in America, from my sleep, when a voice said to me ‘It that George Martin.’ ‘Yes, whose ringing me at 6:00? ‘ ‘What do you feel about the assassination of John Lennon?’ Q: That was how you…?! A: That was how I woke up. And you know it was the most awful moment in all my life. And when I got rid of the man and put the phone down–I was on the air, by the way, when it happened–I rang Paul, he would be awake too. And I said ’surely you don’t want to come in today, and he said ‘I couldn’t stay here; do you mind if we come in?’ So we went into the studio at 10 or 11 in the morning. We didn’t do any work; we just talked all day. We talked about him, and us, and it kind of eased the pain. And we got through it and went home and we gradually got over it. And that was my memory of John dying.”

— Sir George Martin’s emotional account of how he found out John had been murdered, interview with Dini Petty. 

Paul and Linda before a Wings concert by Joe Stevens, 1972

“On stage Linda liked to wear glitter around her eyes, and Paul used to apply it for her before they went on.”

ok. here are my pitches for the beatles biopics

john: directed by david lynch. focused on the conflict between celebrity, identity and "real" life. the typical worms and maggots wriggling under the picture perfect roses type shit. mulholland drive levels of psychosexual tension + a single but extremely graphic mclennon sex scene. kyle maclachlan plays george. masturbation scenes are mandatory

paul: directed by luca guadagnino. oriented around themes of loss and desire - very bones and all but with the cut throat ferocity of suspiria combined with the expressions of sensuality in i am love. tilda swinton plays paul and it makes no sense but it works perfectly. mclennon sexual tension is mandatory but doesnt need to be acted upon in any graphic way. demands vivid colour palette.

george: directed by david cronenberg. interested in how celebrity demands the objectification of the body. cancer is a reoccuring metaphor. bob and george are the movie's central relationship. religion (hare krishna) is used as a way to further elaborate on the whole body horror thing idk i lost my train of thought

ringo: popstar never stop never stopping 2

Saw this picture of this guy, and for a split second I thought it was John wearing a brides veil but nah. link

can't  seem to get his face right, it looks awful. :/

I’m going to the UK for a month and I won’t have the time to get to liverpool. I’m such a fake beatles fan