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Do you have/know where to find that one audio of John saying "Mon Cheri, Mon Pau Pau"?

It was a home-recording from the late(?) seventies.

Its very hard to find, but thankfully someone (@medieval.blunt) posted it on Tiktok

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Woke up this morning. Blues around my head. Ain't no need to ask the reason why. Went to the kitchen. Lit a cigarette. Blew the smoke rings in the sky. Just got to let it go. Just got to let it go.

Mm, it's real life. It's real. It's real life. It's real. Let go. Let go. Let go. (scats) Mm, let go. Mm, let go. Well, it's real life. It's real. Yes, it's real life. It's real. Let go. Let go. Like the mighty river flow. From the ocean to the shore. Let it go. Let go.

Picked up the paper. Read the Daily News. Nothing doing anyway. Same old BS. Doot doot doot doot cruise. Nah nah nah nah now. Let go. Let it go. (laughs) No, what am I doing? Why don't you let it go? Why don't you let it go? Mm, it's real life. It's real. Yes, it's real life. It's real. Let go. Let the mighty river flow. Let go. Let go. Oh, rock your balls, you... Woke up this morning. Blues around my head. No need to ask the reason why. Went to the kitchen, and I jumped back into bed. Something nasty in the sky. No need to be afraid. No need to be afraid. It's just real life. Real life. It's just real life. Just real life. Went up the mountain to see what I could see. Nothing doing nowhere. Went to the seaside. Had a cup of tea. Went to.... Why must we be alone? Why must we be alone? It's real love. It's real. Woke up this morning, blues around my head. No need to ask the reason why. Went to the kitchen, and I ran right to my bed. There's something funny in the sky. Why must we be alone? Why must we be alone? It's real life. Mm, it's real life. (whistles) Was I just dreaming or was it only yesterday? I used to hold you in my arms. And now a baby, and another on the way (laughs) la la la la la farm (laughs) Why must we be alone? Wah wah wah wah wah wah wah. (scats) If it don't feel right, don't do it. If it don't look right, look right through it. If it don't feel right, don't do it. Just call him on the phone.

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Hi! I've been reading your posts lately and I've been wondering what's you take on what really happened between John and Paul and the breakup of their relationship. I've heard many theories but I don't know what to think

Hello! I usually avoid saying my own opinions and instead let the quotes speak by themselves, but yes, I do have a theory about what went down. I had been analysing this for quite some time and thought about all the possible scenarios based on things said by John, Paul and other insiders. Right now, this is what I think:

I know it’s a popular theory that John had long repressed feelings for Paul and that he, for some reason, waited until 1968 in India to make a move, and Paul, being an "immovable heterosexual” didn’t reciprocate his feelings and rejected him in some way. I don’t buy this at all, and I have said it before. I don't think that John would have waited that long to make a move. I do believe that they had something going, even if it was not consummated, but they were definitely more than friends and I believe they were both in love with each other. The feelings weren't one-sided. But I think that after homosexuality was decriminalized in the UK in 1967, John wanted to have a more serious or open relationship with Paul. Paul, on the other hand, as much as he loved John, wanted a “complete family life” (like John once said).

I remember Maggie McGivern saying that she could see that Paul wanted to have kids. So he probably thought that he could get married and settle down and still have and continue whatever he always had with John, even back when he was dating Jane and John was married to Cynthia. But John wanted something more exclusive and open, so he was obviously hurt by this. That's why, when asked about the main differences between him and Paul, he talks about Paul wanting a "complete family life": “Paul always wanted the home life, you see. He liked it with daddy and the brother… and obviously missed his mother. [...] It was always the family thing, you see. If Jane was to have a career, then that’s not going to be a cozy family, is it? All the other girls were just groupies mainly. And with Linda not only did he have a ready-made family, but she knows what he wants, obviously, and has given it to him. The complete family life.”

If what they had was a normal friendship, this shouldn't be a problem at all. People get married all the time and continue having their old friends. All of them were married, except Paul, and had kids, and they were still friends and still in the band. So why would Paul wanting to have a "normal" family life damage his relationship with John? So what John did was to get serious with Yoko, and one of the reasons for this was to cause a reaction in Paul. Magic Alex said this, “Knowing John, I believe the reason he picked Yoko was that he wanted a negative reaction. He knew he could have any girl. And the girls, who were nice-looking, couldn't stand them. [...] He needed as well very, very much a friend. A male friend. And with Yoko, he managed to combine both. He replaced a male in his life plus a female.”  And Peter Brown said, “Why this odd little Japanese lady? The reason, many people believed, was that more than a trophy wife, a model or an actress, John needed a chum. His love affair with Paul McCartney was ending." Yoko said that John told her he liked her because she “looked like a man in drag”, that she “was like a mate”. And John also said “It’s a plus that your best friend can hold you without….I mean I'm not a homosexual or we could have had a homsexual relationship and that would have satisfied it, working with other male artists.” What I think he was trying to say is that “your best friend can hold you without being judged by society”, or something like that.

John clearly wanted to have a public and serious relationship with his “best friend”.  So when we see Philip Norman, after talking to Yoko, saying that John wanted to have an affair with Paul, but was "deterred" by Paul's "immovable heterosexuality” (which btw, was a term that came from him, not Yoko or John. Someone reached out to him to ask him about that phrase and he said that he was the one who came up with it), I instead take this to mean that John wanted a serious and more public relationship with Paul, but that didn't happen because Paul wanted to have a family and live an openly heterosexual life. Even if homosexuality was decriminalized, it was still heavily stigmatized. There's no way that Paul would agree to have an open relationship with John at that time. And that's what John, being as bold as he was, probably wanted. That's probably what hurt John deeply. Paul probably thought he would eventually marry Jane and start a family, but still became jealous when John and Yoko were together. Francie said that when John visited them, “all he could talk about was how much he loved Yoko”, and that this “disturbed Paul”. Paul himself has said that he was jealous but felt he had to make way for Yoko. He said “if [John] was to start a new relationship, he had to put this other one away."

Paul was in a very bad state in 1968, and was "desperate to settle down” (I don't remember if it was Maggie or Francie who said this) until, luckily, he finally did with Linda. Although he loved her, I don't think he was 100% certain about marrying her at first. Remember what Paul said about them having a huge fight the night before the wedding and almost called it off. Paul had spent the day before the wedding in the studio. When the session ended late that night, he did not return to Cavendish but went to Maggie’s house. Maggie said, “there was no car, no cab, so he must have walked. He was scruffy, unshaven and in a terrible state–he couldn’t even talk, just held on to me. I was trying to ask what was wrong but not to make a noise because my teenage brother was staying with me and was asleep in the same room. After about an hour, he just left.” That’s not how someone who is sure of his decision to get married would act.

And I don’t think that he was crying because he wanted to be with Maggie instead of Linda. My theory is that getting married meant that whatever he had with John before was over. Paul himself said, “I think we spurred each other into marriage. I mean, you know...They were very strong together, which left me out of the picture. So I got together with Linda and then we got our own kind of thing.” And even though he wasn't 100% sure, he went through with the wedding.

John, as soon as he heard the news, decided to respond to that and get married immediately as well, as if saying, “So you moved on? Fine, I will too.” Peter Brown explained this very well, "One week and one day after Paul married Linda, I received a phone call from John. He and Yoko were at the Hôtel Plaza Athénée in Paris and wanted to get married immediately. People believe that John's desire to get married so soon after Paul's marriage was a knee-jerk reaction. Perhaps it was psychologically about breaking up with Paul.”  So I think, in summary, that Paul's feelings about this pretty much were “I loved him and he loved me. But I wanted a family and he couldn't give me that. And he wanted more than I could give. I thought we could keep our love quiet, behind the curtain. But he wanted to live out loud. So he found someone who said yes.”

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What do you make about the John’s scathing/sometimes nice but condescending comments about Paul after the breakup? John by all means did leave Paul/the band falling in love with Yoko and wanting a fresh start, even if he vacillated until Paul ‘officially’ announced it. It’s just John had the upper hand for the most part but his resentment towards Paul is clearly something he struggled with. Just wondering what you think John’s feelings were on Paul cause imo it’s obvious Paul loved John but not sure about John tbh.

John and Paul were both crazy about each other. Yoko herself, in Philip Norman's book "John Lennon: The Life", said that she suspected he had romantic feelings for Paul and that "John was so angry at Paul that she wondered what was it really about." Elliot Mintz, who was very close to John in the 70's, said that John would ask him all the time "what do you think Paul is thinking right now? Do you think he thinks about me at all?" To which Elliot would say "idk man, I have only met Paul two times in my life, I have no idea." Alice Cooper, Tony King, and Ray Connolly have all said that John was very defensive of Paul (this was in the 70s) and that he would say "I can say shit about Paul but nobody else can". Alice Cooper even said that "John would take a swing at anybody who spoke bad about Paul." And Tony King said that John would refer to Paul as his "estranged fiancee" all the time. John would make demos of love songs in the late 70's about Paul (check his 1977 Real Life demo and this). He never stopped loving Paul. If you want my thoughts on what really went down, what made John angry at Paul and why their relationship fractured, you can read this post I made a while ago: https://www.tumblr.com/undying-love/789083861675081728/hi-ive-been-reading-your-posts-lately-and-ive?source=share

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Rare photo of George Harrison, c. early 1960s.

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strawberry fields forever

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has anyone said "i'm so hungry i could eat john lennon" to paul yet

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I know Paul has said that Two Of Us is about Linda, but I'm curious if he has ever hinted it might be also about John.

In 2016, he said:

"Because John and I sang it, obviously then the interpretation would be, ‘Oh, those are the two of us’. It was basically about me and Linda. But when I sang it with John, it becomes about me and John. I like that. I love that reinterpretation that songs do. It’s magical."

And in The Lyrics, while he's explaining the song:

If the song had nothing to do with John, it's very odd that he would say that out of nowhere.

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When George Harrison and Olivia Arias married in 1978, George hired the mariachi group, Sol de México, to perform at their private ceremony. Later in 1998 he hired them again to translate and arrange Dark Sweet Lady into a Spanish version for Olivia. He asked them to perform it 5 times at a party he arranged while they were visiting family and friends in Los Angeles (shown in these photos), and there is a tape of this version in the Harrison vaults. 

“He invited us to London […] We played at their wedding in 1976 (sic), they have always been in contact with us and when George died, he gave my foundation $30,000 to teach mariachi classes in Los Angeles. Olivia, invited us to make a presentation for the George Harrison Foundation together with the London Symphony; as well as a tour of Russia, with four concerts with Fernando de la Mora,” -  José Hernández, creator of Sol de México

The following article describes a separate occasion from the one above:

Beatle Without Borders (09 December 2001)

by Ruben Martinez

It was a warm fall evening in 1997 and on the patio of the Wilshire Ebell Theatre, mariachi trumpets were blasting. The occasion was a family reunion, and it was in all ways a typical Mexican fiesta–except for the presence of a handful of guests who stood out among the Old World elders and Mexican American kids. Huddled together at a table were George Harrison and some of his friends, including Indian sitar legend Ravi Shankar, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne of Electric Light Orchestra and session drummer extraordinaire Jim Keltner.

But the rock ‘n’ roll royalty was not the center of attention that evening. Harrison’s in-laws, Maria Louise and Esiquiel Arias, as matriarch and patriarch, had the spotlight. Harrison was there because of their daughter, Olivia Arias, whom he’d married in 1978, thereby gaining a huge Mexican American extended family in Los Angeles.

The former Beatle has been eulogized since his death last month for his cross-cultural collaborations, for popularizing the sitar in Western pop, for serving as a bridge between East and West. But perhaps his most fundamental cross-cultural endeavor was in his personal life.

Keep reading

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George and Olivia Harrison (1976)

Int: Besides producing this documentary [Living in the Material World], you are currently collaborating with The Film Foundation. Could you tell us more about your work in this institution and about the importance of preserving and restoring film?

Olivia Harrison: Through Marty I met Margaret [Bodde] and Jennifer [Ahn] from The Film Foundation. I love film and I love Mexican films. I grew up watching Mexican films and listening to that music, so after funding the restoration - through George’s Material World Charitable Foundation - of some Charlie Chaplin short films and then an English movie and then a Russian movie I thought, how about some Mexican movies?

So now we are embarking on the restoration of some Mexican films. I love Mexican cinema, I love Macario (1959) and María Candelaria (1943), I love the films from the Época de Oro. Jorge Negrete is my hero. I grew up listening to Trío Calaveras and Trío Los Machos, so this is why I really wanted to have the pleasure of restoring Mexican Film.

Int: This is so important and so urgent.

Olivia: It really is. We visited some vaults in the Filmoteca [de la UNAM] and it was amazing. There are cans of film piled six feet high and you think, somebody’s got to get in there!

Int: Your family is originally from Mexico, would you like to tell me more about your relationship with this country?

Olivia: I was born in Los Angeles but my grandparents were born in Guanajuato. I haven’t spent much time in Mexico, but it is really where my heart is. My sister is married to a beautiful Mexican artist from Tonalá and my mother is still alive, so I guess we are a normal Hispanic family, more than an American family I would say.

When my husband married me, he married into a Mexican family. George loved Mexican music, he watched some of these films with me, he even had Jorge Negrete on the jukebox. My father used to sing with his brothers, around 1938, and like every musician he used to go around with his guitar. So George actually took my dad into the studio and recorded him. And my dad and my mother sang like four full songs, that probably your mother and your father, or your grandparents know..

Int: Wow, this is material for another film: the George Harrison – Jorge Negrete connection.

Olivia: We used to have to call him Jorge. Sometimes if he wanted to use another name, he would use Jorge Arias, because that is my maiden name.

-  Interview with Olivia Harrison at the 14th FICM (2016)

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Fashion Icon Paul McCartney, 1979

📸: Graham Hughes

From Issue #18 of Club Sandwich

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John Lennon on the way from Bradford to Liverpool, England | 22 December 1963 © Paul McCartney

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what if you did uhhh...Paul overwhelmed (you can decide why/context) buries head in John's shoulder?

thanks for the request!! :DD i was inspired in part by your beauty, still burning by when_the_pawn (@thegirlwiththeaxe) on ao3 (pls read it, its soooo good omg) c:

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when i smoke the in love with your childhood bestfriend weed

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