#john and paul book

[romcomisdead]

John and Paul book early release, they were giving it out for free at Central Park (strawberry fields) GOT MY HANDS ON IT!!

[paulandjohn]

[muzaktomyears]

There had been bad blood between the Kinks and the Beatles since they played together on the same bill in 1964. John upset Davies backstage by saying, “We’ve lost our set-list, lads. Can we borrow yours?” implying that the Kinks, who had only released two singles at that point, were mere imitators. Paul was more respectful. When the Kinks released “See My Friends” in 1965, a track now widely regarded as one of the first pop songs to use Eastern scales, Paul played it over and over at the apartment of John Dunbar and Marianne Faithfull, and when he saw Ray’s brother Dave at the Scotch, he reputedly joked, “That ‘See My Friend.’ I really like that. I should have written it,” to which Dave retorted, “Well, you didn’t. You can’t do everything.” Ray Davies later commented, “Paul McCartney was one of the most competitive people I’ve ever met. Lennon wasn’t. He just thought everyone else was shit."

Beatles '66: The Revolutionary Year, Steve Turner (2016)

[sgtpeppers]

this is the Beatles movie of 2027 I'm excited about

(full article here)

[sunbleachedbitch]

John Lennon photographed and excerpts by Paul McCartney

From 1964: Eyes of the Storm

[strwbryfeels]

[undying-love]

"I didn't mention this in my book, but from time to time, John would say to me, "What do you think Paul is thinking right now?" I said to John, 'I've only met him a couple times in my life, you know. I have never had any in depth conversations with him. I have no idea.' And John would say, "Do you think he thinks about me at all?" The question made me sad. I just gave him meager responses, like, "I'm sure he does", and then he would move on. And I think his...I'm not gonna call it an obsession, but his curiosity about Paul McCartney was always prevalent."

-Elliot Mintz (Beatles podcast, 2024) (X)

[thebeatlemaniagirl]

the fact that the pothole lowkey has better hair than me is sending me.

[v197sstuff]

Ooh😍 Imagine this, 250 NEW photos we can then analyze and obsess over.

"The Third Eye" will be out in 2026

[slenderfire-blog]

NOT John being put in time out in the garden by someone's mum, for ruining her lino LMAAOOOOO

And he just obeyed BAHAHHA this is absolutely a foreshadowing of Yoko ordering him on a vow of silence for two weeks bc she was sick of his yapping lololol

Source: McCartney by Chris Salewicz

[dovetailjoints]

obv I’m waiting impatiently for Ian Leslie’s mclennon book to come out, but I should have known that the French would get there first

If you press me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it cannot be expressed otherwise than by saying, “Because it was he; because it was I.”

[beatlesmenrock]

beatles dump part whatever sure what the hell

[ghostiesbf]

Johns reaction to ram by making how do you sleep is very valid, cause you have dear boy and too many people while slapping two beatles fucking in the back?? He was right to be crazy cause paul knew what he was doing the entire time

[m1ssunderstanding]

Me: Wow, look at me enjoying non-beatles-affiliated media.

My Brain:

[menlove]

HOWARD STERN: Here's what the book claimed- your sexuality was so powerful over him, he was so enamored of you, so attracted to you, almost- PAUL: Wow. STERN: -that you could have your way with him. Not sexually- ROBIN QUIVERS: Did you feel a power over him? PAUL: [rapidly shaking his head] No. STERN: -but in business. That you had a- that he was sort of at your mercy because he was so in love with you. That was the theory in the book. PAUL: Well, you know, I mean- I like that theory. [laughs] STERN: Wish that could've been true. PAUL: No, man.

(x- translation from portuguese by @todayesterday here) (x) (x)

[lesbianbeatles]

Of Lennon, he writes, 'we became versions of each other', and 'we could see things in each other that the other needed to be complete.' He describes how they met at a Liverpool church fête, how they hitchhiked across England and Europe, how when they sat down together they could always write, and how at the end of the 60s they, and The Beatles, broke up.

The Lyrics, Paul McCartney, 2021