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The Beatles during a media conference at the Washington Coliseum | 11 February 1964 © Mike Mitchell

Their performance later that day was their first US concert, coming two days after their first appearance on the Ed Sullivan TV Show. The band traveled from New York to Washington, DC by rail earlier that day, after an East Coast snowstorm had caused all flights to be cancelled.

#lovely assortment of photos #first bugs us concert #the beatles #john lennon #paul mccartney #george harrison #ringo starr

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Paul playing guitar at home in London, April 1969

#obligatory rb of The Shirt #this shirt has got to be the single most delicious piece of clothing ever worn by anyone ever #paul mccartney

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#ugh seriously so hot #why did he have to start dying his hair #paul mccartney

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Rooftop concert! So proud to drawing this, because this is one of my favourite concerts.

#that's so pretty #art #fanart #the beatles #rooftop concert

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exhausted-think-bucket · 8 hours

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Imagine being Paul McCartney and seeing your teenage idol/crush singing a song you wrote

#paul mccartney #the beatles #elvis presley #yesterday #found on twitter

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exhausted-think-bucket · 12 hours

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I WANNA HOLD YOUR HAND (1978)

dir. Robert Zemeckis

#i have no idea what this is #but yeah #i would so make out with Paul's hofner bass #the beatles #paul mccartney #added to the watchlist i guess

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John and Paul relaxing on a flight to St. Louis in 1966.

#soft bugs #john lennon #paul mccartney #the beatles

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#*fans self*#paul mccartney #linda mccartney #rolling stone

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I've probably said this already but I do think the reason I'm so obsessed with mclennon vs. other insane gay music duos is johns death like I know that makes me evil or whatever but paul spending half his life mourning and struggling to cope with losing john is just so compelling to me. Compared to like other music breakups where I'm like ok ur both alive so bootycall each other or stfu already 🙄🙄🙄 meanwhile mccartney is in his house surrounded by pictures of john and johns art and art hes made about john and calendars of john and johns piano bench, constantly talking/thinking/writing songs about john. It just doesn't compare. To me.

#i can't imagine living like this #this man is remarkably well adjusted all things considered #i do hope he went to therapy but i wouldn't be surprised if he hasn't #paul mccartney #john lennon #mclennon

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You serve me And I'll serve you Swing your partners, all get screwed Bring your lawyer And I'll bring mine Get together, and we could have a bad time It's affidavit swearing time Sign it on the dotted line Hold your Bible in your hand Now all that's left is to Find yourself a new band We're gonna play the sue me, sue You blues We're gonna play the sue me, sue You blues Hold the block on money flow Move it into joint escrow Court receiver, laughs, and thrills But in the end we just pay those Lawyers theit bills When you serve me And I serve you Swing your partners, all get screwed Bring your lawyer And I'll bring mine Get together, and we could have A bad time We're gonna play the sue me, sue You blues I'm tired of playing the Sue Me, Sue You Blues

Might as well have called it Paul, You Moron, This Is For You

#paul mccartney #george harrison #the beatles #Spotify

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The Beatles - I'm a Loser, Paris 1965

#one of my favorite john songs #paul introducing the song in french #they way he gets all up in John's face #john lennon #paul mccartney #the beatles #found on twitter

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i honestly don't even know what to say about these

#this man #i bet he knows exactly how horny we all are for him #he so gets off on this #slut #paul mccartney

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#adorable #baby bugs #the beatles #john lennon #paul mccartney #george harrison #ringo starr

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The book in the video for Free as a Bird

The video for "Free As a Bird" is chockablock with references to Beatles songs. We believe every one of their songs is in there somewhere, maybe even including songs that they didn’t release, and we’re working on putting together a comprehensive list.

However, true to form, we got waylaid by a tangent. (Stick with us to the end, we promise it's worth it).

In the scene representing "Paperback Writer" a book is seen on the table closest to the camera:

Tragically this is the clearest shot of the book (you can watch the video here, the book appears at the 3 minute mark). It seems as though it has been intentionally blurred. We’re not ones to back down from a research challenge though!

We tried all the obvious things: it’s clearly not Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, for example, but we weren’t having much luck finding a book with a two-word title (first word slightly shorter), whose author had a longer first name and shorter surname. (Did you know there are 1.5 million books in the Penguin archive collection?)

So we contacted [email protected] (because of course we did). They got back to us quickly, and were very helpful.

Our correspondent Esmé tried to find a contract for any Penguin book being used in the video, but came up empty. So the Beatles didn’t get permission to use this book. Very interesting, especially since it seems to have been obscured.

She pointed out that the combination of:

Two line book title

One line author name

Dancing penguin figure (only used between 1940 and 1950)

Is quite rare, so that really narrows the search.

She suggested that, since it doesn’t appear to have “genre markers” on the sides, it would be from 1947 or later. However when you watch the video there may be compression artifacts (smudges) remaining of genre markers that are on the book, but not clearly visible (more on that later).

She proposed Silas Marner after having done a bit of research on her own (have we mentioned what a star she was?):

Armed with all this information we trawled the website given to us by Esmé for more suitable candidates.

The shape of the author name seriously narrows it down, and where a book might match by name, it fails to match by title. In fact, we only found three real candidates, plus the book Esmé gave us:

Holy Terrors by Arthur Manchen

Paper Houses by William Plomer

And

Peter Waring by Forrest Reid

Just on first glance, only one of these books really had the shortness of the surname seen in the video,

But just to be sure, since the book in the video is blurred and very under saturated, we tried to replicate it:

Silas Marner, Holy Terrors

Paper Houses, Peter Waring

These are the settings we used if anyone wants to check our work:

And that blurred and compressed, the “fiction” marker really is more like a smudge, so we feel confident that we don't need to find a book with no genre marks.

Here’s that screenshot of the book again, to save you scrolling back to the top:

Only one of these books has the right surname length. We actually measured with a ruler on screen, and the ratio of length between the Author names on our mystery book is 2.333. The ratio between Forrest and Reid (in the font on the Penguin edition): 2.3. Given the inaccuracies of measuring on a screen that’s remarkably close.

We found it. The book is Peter Waring by Forrest Reid.

After watching the relevant section of the video through, with this book in mind, we’re now totally convinced this is the right book. (Please let us know if you can find another candidate!)

But why? Why that book? It’s not like they’d ever mentioned it, as far as we could find, at least.

Here’s where it gets interesting.

Peter Waring (1937) is a full-scale revision of Reid's earlier Following Darkness (1912) in which Peter, a sensitive boy with literary inclinations, grows up unhappily in the household of his father, a cold village schoolmaster in Newcastle, County Down, and among his Belfast relatives whom he finds intolerable.

'An acute and subtle story of adolescence. . . . A delicacy and a grave beauty which make their own quiet appeal.' Times

'Reid has written one of the finest studies of the mental, sexual, spiritual life of the adolescent without ever mentioning the words.' Glasgow Herald

Sound like the family background of anyone we know? (hint: replace father with Aunt)

But, oh wait, it gets better.

Forrest Reid was a gay man (very repressed by many accounts but seemingly just ace, or the equivalent at the time, by others) who wrote novels about the queer adolescent experience, more emotional than sexual, in the early 1900s.

He was good friends with EM Forster, another queer writer of his time and other suspected but never confirmed queer writers as well such as Arthur Greaves. His works are not really well known still, and frankly weren’t even well known in the 50s and 60s, except in queer circles, according to our research.

Perhaps the choice of this specific Reid book is related to one or more of the Peters in their circle? Shotton, Best, Brown, and Asher. That's a lot of Peters!

As we said at the start, in the music video the book appears in a scene depicting the song "Paperback Writer". And you know what fits better than “Lear” in the lyrics of that song?

Dear Sir or Madam, will you read my book? It took me years to write, will you take a look? It's based on a novel by a man named Reid And I need a job So I wanna be a paperback writer Paperback writer

(note: Lear never wrote any novels).

Knowing how they liked plays on words (read, Reid), half rhymes (Reid, be), and internal rhymes (Reid, need) we think it’s very likely the novel in the first draft of the song was by a man named Reid.

Much to think about!

Thanks again to Esmé Library and Archive Assistant at Penguin Random House Archive

#wow #kudos on the research op #the beatles #free as a bird #peter waring #paperback writer

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alright so wait a minute. according to the official record the last time paul saw john in person was in 1976, and the last time they talked over the phone was a few weeks before his death (about bread). we also know, of course, that the last words john said to paul was "think about me every now and then, old friend." now.... given the presented timeline, that must have been over the phone, BUT, carl perkins said in his interview about...that whole situation, that linda told him "the last words that John Lennon said to Paul in the hallway of the Dakota building were… he patted him on the shoulder, and said, [quote]." do you see the problem with these two narratives? do you see it? now you could say that john said that in 1976, but then why would paul have such a strong emotional reaction to it? clearly those were john's last words to paul ever. so they must have been meeting in person much later than he's admitted. WHATS THE TRUTH PAUL

#now and then #my heart #john lennon #paul mccartney

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Beatles fans, please indulge me and let me know in tags your most and least favourite songs on:

Please Please Me

With the Beatles

Hard Days Night

Beatles for Sale

Help!

Extra points for adding why.

#twist and shout / a taste of honey #all my loving / don't bother me #if i fell& can't buy me love / you can't do that #im a loser / everybody's trying to be my baby #it's impossible to pick a favorite from help #least favorite: you're gonna lose that girl #the beatles