That article asking what people liked most about their favourite beatle and the Paul girls saying ‘his looks with John <3’ the original bi boyfriend enthusiasts

Eric Clapton and Mick Jagger before Live Aid, Philadelphia, 1985 © Pattie Boyd

John Lennon (and a little bit of Paul McCartney) during the press conference for Apple — May 1968, New York City.

With both men and women, close friends and mere acquaintances, George had this interesting habit of moving in at extremely close quarters when he was opening even the most casual of small-talk conversations. He would stand face-to-face, eye-to-eye, often no more than a few centimetres from the other person, and he would talk ever so quietly which gave onlookers the distinct impression that he was sharing some secret information of great significance that required total confidentiality. He was more likely to be talking about his newest guitar or the next car he'd like to buy.

John, Paul, George, Ringo & Me: The Real Beatles Story, Tony Barrow (2005)

stuart & astrid // yoko and john (double fantasy)

Candy Darling photographed by Laura Rubin, 1971.

An original felt pen and pencil doodle for an Apple Records LP label by George Harrison, c. 1969

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Ringo is a sweet guy. As you know he's given up booze and cigarettes. He's too clean for words. He and his wife Barbara are such sweet people. And as a drummer he is unique. He's not a great technical drummer if you measure him against someone like Steve Gadd or Jeff Porcaro, he wouldn't be able to play like that. But he has a unique sound. When you hear Ringo, you know it's Ringo, there's no one else. He contributed an enormous amount to The Beatles' sound with his distinctive sounding drums. Enormously supportive, he was always there.

Apart from his drumming he would be the catalyst. His opinions counted. If John was doing something a bit dubious and Ringo would say, "That's crap, John," John would take it out. He wouldn't get angry, he would accept it.

— George Martin, interviewed November 1998.

John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr during rehearsals for The Beatles' first appearance on Ready, Steady, Go, 4th October 1963. Part 4 (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 5, part 6, part 7, part 8, part 9, part 10)

George Harrison (1987)

I’m on my knees (help me

it mustve been so hard to have been paul mccartney in 1968 knowing u fumbled john when he looked like this

Indeed, Get Back serves in part as a study in male friendship. What you see on screen between John and Paul, especially when they play, is a chemistry that crackles as fiercely as any sexual or romantic attraction. The connection between the two is so intimate, the shared glances full of such understanding, that when they play Two of Us, you realise that the love that song celebrates is theirs – even if they didn’t know it.

John Lennon & fans in front of his home at Kenwood in Weybridge, England | 1965

I'm back with the quote. It's not super in-depth but I find it interesting. The majority of the Peter Brown book is just interview transcripts. So it's generally pretty trustworthy in so far as it's people talking about their own experiences in their own words. (The SG is Steven Gaines. The interviewer)

CL: I know the whole thing. I don’t know if you can put the blame on Yoko, but it was meant to happen anyway, it was a sort of good–evil situation, and evil got in and was stronger than the good. And that’s what dissipated the whole thing. It all went wrong from then. It’s very hard to put the blame.

SG: Well, it could have been Linda. I mean, Linda had a similar effect on Paul.

CL: Linda was a different type of woman. She was a liberated woman that came into a situation, took over from the women that were the ordinary girls that they’d known from school. So there was excitement in that.

That’s very interesting that she’d say that because you could pretty easily apply the same description to Yoko

I think Alex wanted to be a very loyal friend to John. He wanted John's attention. There were enough men that wanted his attention at that time. It wasn't physical, it was mental. They were almost desperate, the heterosexual ones.

Pattie Boyd on "Magic" Alex Mardas and John Lennon, interviewed in 1980. Peter Brown and Steven Gaines, All You Need Is Love (2024)

That compilation of Beatle girl quotes is very interesting! Thank you! I wanted to let you know that there is a quote from Cynthia on Linda in the new Peter Brown book. I don't have it on hand. But I believe they'd met at least once by then, so it's not just what she's heard about her

I was not aware of that! I am a bit sceptical of anything Peter Brown says, but does anyone have the quote?

Also, it was kind of flip of me to say that Cyn and Linda have never been in the same room – they probably did meet at some point. I know Paul produced Cyn's single in the 90s so they were definitely in contact then, though I think it might've been around the time of Linda's diagnosis. Anyway, if Paul and Cyn ran into each other any time in the intervening years, she and Linda probably met and got on fine.