“has success changed your life?”

                  “yes”

Happy 80th Birthday George [February 25, 1943]

its international womens day so happy women day to the realest bitch in the game

Just remembered, it always annoys me whenever I see people call Revolution "the most political song the Beatles had done" cos like. Does Piggies mean nothing to you.

Sorry to ask, but I saw your tags on the "there's a beatles in my closet" post and was wondering if you could expand? What else was blocked because of gay stuff?

hi! basically there’s this book called “rock bottom” by geoff baker, who was paul’s publicist for many years but was fired in 2003. geoff baker basically got blacklisted in the industry after he cut ties with paul and allegedly further blacklisted after releasing the book. it’s notoriously hard to find a copy of rock bottom because its initial run was quite limited and (for unknown reasons… 👀) it never had a second run and so is basically impossible to buy - it was even taken down from the amazon kindle ebook store at some point. i’ve also heard that it was incredibly hard to get any publisher to look at the book because no one wanted to get involved out of fear of being sued.

the actual book is about a publicist who works for a controlling arsehole closeted bisexual rock star who ends up getting blackmailed with gay photos from the 70s. the rock star’s name is ian taylor (which is significant since one of paul’s pseudonyms is ian iachimoe - which apparently he asked his friends and family to address letters to in order to stand out) and the rock star’s estranged former writing partner is literally named john (but goes by jack) 😭😭 - to my limited knowledge (i.e reading the few excerpts and posts abt it on live journal) there’s nothing that suggests a relationship between those two but still wild.

obviously it’s not 100% confirmed that the book is at all about paul (geoff has said that it’s not, but also advertised that his experience in the industry helped him write it) or that paul had anything to do with killing it but i would say we can make some inferences as to what happened there tbh

Are you telling me. That people used to call Paul 'John's Princess' and then John. Wrote a song called 'Forgive Me (My Little Flower Princess)'

‘Beatlemania’ appears in print for the first time. The Daily Mirror, 2nd November 1963

Ode to 1963 Beatles

Having spent entirely too much of my life studying all matters Beatles-related, I sometimes like to play a parlor game with other fans. I ask them which year was the band’s best, before offering an answer of my own. Many people stump for 1967, when Sgt. Pepper came out, recasting the pop-culture zeitgeist. Others opt for 1964, the first year of stateside Beatlemania. A dark horse sometimes gets a vote, like 1965, the year the Beatles produced their first mature masterwork in Rubber Soul. But when I provide my answer—1963, all the way—I’m usually met with puzzled looks. It’s no wonder. Fifty years have passed since that magical and formative year for the band, yet most of the music the Beatles recorded throughout it remains commercially unavailable. But 1963 is the band’s annus mirabilis.

—Colin Fleming, 1963: The Year The Beatles Found Their Voice [x]

So why 1963?

Well, I think people like to focus on [Sgt.] Pepper from '67, maybe Rubber Soul from '65 or Revolver from '66. But if you wanted to know what The Beatles liked, what they listened to, what they were trying to become and, in large part, who they already were and who they would be, the '63 BBC recordings would be your one-stop shopping destination. When they tackled ... a crucial rock 'n' roll text like Elvis' "That's All Right, Mama," you can hear that they keep elements of the past — that burnished country tone that Elvis' band excelled at — but they've added a sort of stomping, northern soul element to it. So they're really overhauling the past.

—The Beatles Defining Moment (Hint: It's not Sgt Pepper) [x]

Listen to 1963 Beatles (BBC live recordings, other live performances, and studio recordings in chronological order of recording or writing date if known)

the classic diaspora struggle of not fitting in and struggling between two worlds or whatever takes up such little space in my brain now that im in my 20s like it almost seems like a problem only people on TV deal with (even if i remember what being 16 was like 😐) so now when i deal with someone actually judging me for not being brown enough/being too brown it's like. firstly what the fuck lol what year is it and secondly did you get your degree in heckling from the disney channel school of lemonade mouth or what

All Things Must Pass (1970) save me

All Things Must Pass (1970)

save me All Things Must Pass (1970)

the beatles are good as fuck when you dont got a contrarian zoomer in your ear telling you theyre bad

Coming to the conclusion of if John hadn't died he and Paul would've continued to almost get back together and then fuck it up at the last minute throughout the 80s in increasingly ridiculous fashions