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The McCartney and Harrison family celebrate Ringo's wedding, April 27, 1981. ć
” From the book "THE BEATLES" by Terry O'Neill.
#I've seen some of these before but not all of them#is this the last time we see them in the same room till anthology?#happy aniversary#ringo starr#barbara bach#george harrison#olivia harrison#paul mccartney#linda mccartney
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Hi! Can I ask you a really stupid question? What did John do before he wore glasses? Did he wear contacts? Did his vision suddenly get way worse one day? I know this is day 1 stuff that I'm supposed to know and it's probably also very googleable, but I am not googling anything, I am straight up walking around all day pondering stuff. When I saw your post about his glasses in Dr. Who I was like...this person will definitely be able to tell me what's up. So what's the deal with John's eyesight?
He did wear glasses. He had buddy holly glasses. He just didn't wear them frequently cause he thought they looked dorky.
Here is an example of him in those glasses.
Here is some info about John and his glasses!
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It's the wrong hair for the era all together too. I don't get why the hair is always the biggest thing these types of projects get wrong. There are so many photos, why didn't you look at some before you filmed. They weren't wearing wigs, they all did different things with the hair style. it's not hard to find that info.
Is it me, or does this look like the wrong year for John to be wearing those glasses?
Actually, what year is this?
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I love the idea that at some stage Linda goes "I love the Moody Blues" and Paul was like "I can get ya one a them!"
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'Could it be that John and Paul feel a song comin' on? They had plenty of time to "compose" between takes.'
I appreciate Fabulous magazine making that sound like a euphemism.
13th June 1964.
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(...) Epstein flew into a rage and asked where the airline proposed to put us [in Anchorage, Alaska] while we waited for the typhoon to blow itself away. He was not completely reassured by the captain's personally delivered promise that arrangements were in hand to put up our entire party in a downtown Anchorage hotel, probably the Westwood, one of the best in the area and well-known to airline crews. (...) Seeing that Brian was still angry, he returned later to say that he had fixed for John, Paul, George and Ringo to share the hotel's bridal suite and several equally well-appointed adjoining rooms. This caused much amusement among the four boys who instantly began proposing marriage to one another.
John, Paul, George, Ringo & Me: The Real Beatles Story, Tony Barrow (2005)
#my new favorite image#i will never not be thinking about this from this day forward#our favorite polycule#tony barrow#Brian epstein
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First one and third one aren't real
That's the real third one.
But as everyone is saying there are enough real ones to not need to create manips.
John and Paul leaning on each others shoulders in a platonic non romantic very heterosexual way
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18 April 1963
The Beatles find out that Jane Asher is a redhead on this day, upon meeting her in real life and not black and white.
#I never thought about the fact that they wouldn't have known what color her hair was#that's just an interesting factoid to think about#jane asher
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collage by Alia Wilhelm
one of Olivia Harrisonās poems in her 2022 book Came the Lightening: Twenty Poems for George, a collection of poems written for and about her late husband, George Harrison
Oliviaās comment on this specific poem:
āI wrote āTuum Corpusā (āyour bodyā in Latin) because I wanted people to know what he looked like, about how he got the scars on his fingers, his lessons in life. He said, āI speared a fish. It was so little. It looked so big through the mask. I threw it back, and it slashed my fingers. I had to squeeze lemon on my fingers.ā He called the scars instant karma.ā ā Olivia Harrison
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There are SO many amazing relationships in Paul's life.
If you're interested in learning about some, Icke Braun and Paul is one of my personal favorites. Also Paul and Denny Laine is high up there as well. And of course Paul and George and Paul and Ringo
Tbh in terms of discussion/analysis Paul's relationship with John REALLY overshadows every single other relationship in his life, it's like mclennon is the trainwreck we can't look away from even when there are at least two or more other trainwrecks just a few feet away
#mclennon is nice and all#but god there is so much good info and flappy arm things from Paul with all his other boys too
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*THIS POLL IS NOT ABOUT HOW MUCH YOU'VE ALREADY LISTENED TO, BUT ABOUT YOUR GENERAL ATTITUDE AND INTENTIONS
**side-projects include experimental albums, collaborations, albums that fall outside the pop-rock umbrella (e.g. Liverpool Oratorio), etc.
*** this could even mean someone has criticized a song/album in a way that made you curious. It also includes you seeing a theory or interpretation of this song that got you interested.
#I have a playlist of all beatles work in chronological order#yes including paul's classical stuff#I think i'm missing a few things that I couldn't find cause finding a whole chronological list is hard#but yeah ful completist here'
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I think it's this interview where Michael said LiB was in progress.
I was kinda under the impression that since we hadn't heard more about it, it had been shelved.
Nice to know that's not the case.
Can't wait to see it!
Rumour Mill #9: Disney teases another Beatles project
While it's unclear what precisely Disney has planned, the image aligns with rumors that the Beatles Let It Be film has been remastered and will soon be available for viewing. (Paul McCartney himself touched on the idea of a new edit of the film back in 2018.)
Possible Peter Jackson Involvement
If that's the case, it's possible that Peter Jackson, the man responsible for the acclaimed The Beatles: Get Back Disney Plus series released in 2021, also worked on remastering Let It Be, which was originally directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg and released in 1970.
#seriously iāll take what I can get #anything about the Beatles hypes me to the core anyway #i want to see new BTS edits pleaaaaase
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I always say this is the 1970s version of Born this Way, but way way raunchier.
I still can't believe some people think this song is innocent and straight.
undoubtedly about gay sex
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Corporal Punishment
There are numerous accounts of how Jim occasionally walloped his sons when provokedāMike McCartney even claims they were āduly bashedāābut his sister-in-law maintains they are untrue. āJim and Mary never smacked the boys,ā she says. āThey took them to their room and gave them a good talking-to, but they never hit them. Never.ā
ā In Bob Spitzās The Beatles (2005).
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āI was once hitting Michael for doing something,ā says Jim. āPaul stood by shouting at Mike, āTell him you didnāt do it and heāll stop.ā Mike admitted he had done it, whatever it was. But Paul was always able to get out of most things.ā
āI was pretty sneaky,ā says Paul. āIf I ever got bashed for being bad, I used to go into their bedroom when they were out and rip the lace curtains at the bottom, just a little bit, then Iād think, thatās got them.ā
ā In Hunter DaviesāsĀ The BeatlesĀ (1968).
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I once saved Paulās life, viewers (but weāre quits, he later saved mine)! He was ten at the time and I was about eight. One day we found a lime pit which had filled with rain and turned into a small pond. Some workmen had left a plank balanced across it and, needless to say, we had to walk across it. [ā¦]
In the end we decided weād both go together. That meant disaster. We were about halfway across when the plank began to sway dangerously and suddenly Paul lost his balance and fell in. The plank then wobbled so much that I fell in after him.
We might have drowned - really! [ā¦] I remember digging my fingers into the soft, slippery earth and getting a grip on a big stone or something and then starting to haul myself out. But when I turned to see how Paul was doing, I saw that he had fallen back, spluttering and gasping, and his head was going under. I grabbed him by the collar and held on. He caught hold of my arm and clung to it. We stayed like that until a neighbour, hearing our cries, rescued us.Ā
That night, by way of reward, Dad gave us the hiding of our lives. We went to bed crying and lay with our heads on the pillows sobbing bitterly. I was prepared to regard the hiding as just punishment. But not Paul. He dried his eyes and began to think out ways of getting revenge on Dad. Some of them sounded like ideas out of a Chinese torture book, only dafter. Finally, he said: āIf I could, Iād take Dad up to 15,000 feet in a plane, dig a hole, fill it with water, and drop him in!ā
ā Mike McCartney, in āPortrait of Paulā for Woman Magazine (21 August 1965).
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I never much liked authority. I didnāt like school teachers or critics telling me what I should do. Or myself telling me. Iām alive ā do it!
ā Paul McCartney, interviewed by Nicci Gerrard for the Observer: The long and winding odeĀ (11 March 2001).
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PAUL: I always had ambitions to be something good. I didnāt know what it would be. You know, I was always quite ambitious but I wouldnāt buckle down at school like a lot of people. The teachers just didnāt help. We had some right perverts as teachers.
PARKINSON: In what way?
PAUL: Well they used to beat the shit out of you! There was this one guy with a plimsoll that he used to take it out on us with. You know, bend over, whop!
ā Paul McCartney, on ITVās Parkinson Show (17 December 2005).
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HARTY: Did you ever get caned for being naughty?
PAUL: I did occasionally, yes; I must admit, your honor. There were a couple of occasions.
HARTY: And your mates were caned as well, sometimes?
PAUL: Mates were caned, yes. We didā They used to cane us, āsix of the bestā kind of thing. But I remember this time George got caned ā George Harrison, because we were mates at school ā and I mean, we never really did anything wrong, but we might have like tight trousers and Ted hairdos. So that pointed you out as someoneā āHereās a troublemaker.ā So George got done once, and the teacher missed him and got him here [mimics getting caned on the inner wrist]. So he hadā a couple of big wheels came up here, you know those rash things. And he went home and heās having his tea with his dad and theyāre all chatting about how it went at school. His dad said, āWhatās that?ā He saw these things [on his inner wrist]. And George told him, āYou know, the teacher did it.ā So the next day they were in class and someone popped their head around the door of the class, āHm, Misterāā whoever the teacher was that caned George, ācome out here for a moment, please.ā He came out, and it was Georgeās dad there! He said, āDid you do that to my son?ā, across theā āYes, I did.ā [mimics Harry Harrison punching the teacher in the face] Oh! Right there! Honest, honest!
HARTY: And what happened after that?
PAUL: Oh, he was a hero! He wasā he was just the school hero, Georgeās dad. That was it, you know. But I used to tell my dad, āI got caned, dad.ā āWell, you probably did something wrong.ā
HARTY: No help from there at all.
PAUL: āDad, you know, dad, hit him!ā
ā Paul McCartney, on BBCās Harty Show (23 November 1984).
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Mike McCartney was once knocked unconscious by a master; when he told his dad [ā¦] Jim merely said, āDonāt be silly son, the masters are always right,ā and went back to his crossword.
ā In Mark Lewisohnās Tune In (2013).
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I nearly did very well at grammar school but I started to get interested in art instead of academic subjects. [ā¦] The words they used in their end-of-term reports: āIf he would only buckle downā¦ā and youād go, āNo! No! Get out of my life! I hate you. You should say Iām great. Iāve got to take this home, you know.ā
ā Paul McCartney, in Barry Milesā Many Years From Now (1997).
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I donāt like criticism whatever. I donāt think I ever liked it when my Dad said, āI donāt like your trousersā.
ā Paul McCartney, in Paul Gambacciniās In His Own Words (1976).
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And his dad was the whole thing. Just simple things: he wouldnāt go against his dad and wear drainpipe trousers. And his dad was always trying to get me out of the group behind me back, I found out later. Heād say to George: āWhy donāt you get rid of John, heās just a lot of trouble. Cut your hair nice and wear baggy trousers,ā like I was the bad influence because I was the eldest, so I had all the gear first usually.
So Paul was always like that. And I was always saying, āFace up to your dad, tell him to fuck off. He canāt hit you. You can kill him [laughs], heās an old man.ā I used to say, āDonāt take that shit off him.ā Because I was always brought up by a woman, so maybe it was different. But I wouldnāt let the old man treat me like that. He treated Paul like a child all the time, cut his hair and telling him what to wear, at seventeen, eighteen.
But Paul would always give in to his dad. His dad told him to get a job, he fucking dropped the group and started working on the fucking lorries, saying, āI need a steady career.ā We couldnāt believe it. So I said to himāmy Aunt Mimi reminded me of this the other nightāhe rang up and said heād got this job and couldnāt come to the group. So I told him on the phone, āEither come or youāre out.ā So he had to make a decision between me and his dad then, and in the end he chose me.
ā John Lennon, interviewed by Peter McCabe and Robert Schonfeld (September 1971).
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PAUL: But you know, itās funny talking about this sort of parentsā the thing was he did use to kind of hit me, occasionally. Like, that was what they did in those days. Youāre not allowed to do it so much these days, butā [ā¦] You know, I wasā [mutters] it was not all great. But I tell you what, what comes to mind ā or just the memory ā of the one moment when I was about, I donāt know, sixteen, seventeen or something. And he came in with the usual stuff. Heād just sort of slap me. Weāre having an argument, heād slap me. [ā¦] So, I just stood there ā and it was like an amazing moment in my life ā I said, āGo ahead. Do it again.ā And he was like [makes descending sound]. And he never did it again. It was, āGo aheadā, you know. This was it. [laughs] The record companies would sue him.
ā Paul McCartney, interviewed by Howard Stern for the Stern Show (18 October 2001).
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Children;Ā Up to a certain age, I love all of them. After that, some of them get wrecked, mainly by parents.
ā Paul McCartney for Melody Maker: Pop Think-In (1 January 1966).
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I told you for instance that I didnāt like dogs and cats, until I got a dog and a cat and love them for what they are, just ācause theyāre dogs and cats. Iām quite willing to accept that dogs and cats are dogs and cats. And I still find that thereās a vague little sort-of sadistic thing in me about dogs and cats and if I ever have to punish her [his dog Martha] I can do it quite easily. Which I hate.
ā Paul McCartney, interviewed by Barry Miles for International Times: A conversation with Paul McCartney (November 1966).
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LESLIE: And if my mother only knew!
PAUL:Ā [concerned] What would she do?
LESLIE: Itās notā Iā [unintelligible] No, weāre not supposed to be allowed toā
PAUL: [unintelligible] about civil liberties.
LESLIE: Oh, thatās interesting.
PAUL: Yeah, right? Itās great!
LESLIE: In England or in America?
PAUL: Well, all over the place, eventually. Weāll get some liberty, you know. [unintelligible] And itās just about all the kind of things that people clamp down on young people for when they donāt actually know whatās going on! So Iām just trying to give the point of view of the people that, you know, donāt really want to be spanked anymore, thank you, daddy! Just sort of tell us why you donāt want us to do it. Explain it clearly, and maybe we wonāt do it. But if you keep spanking us, weāre gonna be naughty. You know, and try to explain that one away.
ā Paul McCartney speaks with Leslie Samuels and Donna Stark, two young fans who visited him at his home in 7 Cavendish Avenue (July 1967).
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[Just a hazy collection of quotes on Paul and corporal punishment. There were some that I wanted to include but just couldnāt locate; for example, Paul talking about how he wouldnāt hit his own kids.
Itās interesting to contrast the two brothersā response to the same punishment. Mike seems to have no problem talking about itĀ ā and in quite explicit termsĀ ā from as early as 1965. Paul, on the other hand, would only go deeper into it until almost 50 years after the fact. Mike also recounts how he was ready to accept the punishment, while Paul resented it so much he needed to exact some kind of revenge on his parents, realized or imagined.
I feel like Paul was especially sensitive about this type of punishment for how profoundly unfair it felt. Regardless of what he had done (or what was considered normal for the times), I think Paul always found it unacceptable to be treated in such a way. So he couldnāt make peace with it as easily as his brother. This in turn influenced and was influenced byĀ his general relationship with authority.
I feel it also somehow connects with Paulās preoccupations with making it clear that John never hit him ā as was represented in the movie Nowhere Boy ā which he felt the need to state again in The Lyrics.
Essentially, I feel that for a person like PaulĀ ā who values control over his own person/personal freedom so muchĀ ā having his bodily integrity and autonomy violated in such a way was/is a big deal, which shaped how he dealt with other figures of power. (Insert here a whole essay on Paulās borderline-traumatized reaction to Allen Klein and his forceful advances, and how he argues John took Klein on because he wanted a ādaddyā.)]
#I wonder why Gin was so confident that the boys were never hit#paul mccartney#mike mccartney#jim mccartney
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Wow, what a way to say George saw through your bs and wanted nothing to do with you.
At least Ray Connolly tried to set them straight at the end there. This is one of those times I'm wondering what was edited out or into this book.
An Excerpt from Ray Connollyās 1980 Interview with Steven Gaines and Peter Brown
RC: (ā¦) I didnāt get to know George, really.
SG: I don't think he was easy to get to know.
RC: Isn't it an interesting thing that George turned out to be the one who has this baronial mansion in the material world?
SG: He gardens all day long. It's very obsessive.
PB: All the years I've known him, I've never felt I was ever close to George. You never knew what was going on in his head. I saw them a lot because I used to go out with Pattie all the time. But I never knew quite what was going on in there. Ticking around in his head.
SG: Maybe nothing. That's sometimes the case. Inscrutable people are sometimes like Peter Sellers in Being There.
RC: George was very sharp. Extremely sharp.
from Peter Brown and Steven Gainesā new book āAll You Need Is Loveā pg. 188
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One of the best Help! scenes <3
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Robert Fraserās interview with Peter Brown and Steven Gaines, All You Need is Love
Some highlights:
Robert Fraser: Peter Asher was Janeās brother. I think he brought Paul over to my place. He made me sorry because he saw a sculpture in my apartment and said, āI want that.ā It was quite a lot of money for those days, it was like 2,500 quid. Paul never asked the price until he decided to buy something. If he liked it, he wanted it.
Steven Gaines: I guess they didnāt have to think about the price
Robert Fraser: No, but most people, even if they donāt have to think about it, they want to know the price. Paul was very, very open-minded, but he was also moreā¦Well, John was too, but I mean John was sort of very difficult toā¦He was more difficult toā¦He was very shy in a way, and it comes out in an aggressive way.
Steven Gaines: Itās an odd decision Paul made to live at his girlfriendās home with her parents.
Robert Fraser: Paul was a very domestic sort of personality. He liked the idea.
Peter Brown: I didnāt think twice about it, but looking back on it now, it was pretty ahead of its time to move in with your girlfriendās family.
Robert Fraser: Even now, heās done exactly what he wants. Heās not really likeā¦He never really lived a rock starās life.
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