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OMG what mclennon secret meeting evidence? I need to know you can't leave me hanging like this

Yay thank you for asking!

Carl Perkins says so.

Carl is recounting something Linda told him here, after Paul's emotional reaction to Carl's song 'my old friend.' "we stopped by the Dakota about three weeks I believe she said before John died something like that". -- 1996

James McCartney remembers seeing John at the Dakota.

"I know John held me as a baby. Then I have memories of the Dakota building, very white, lots of sunlight pouring in" -- 2012. James was born in 77. Most people don't remember anything before two years old. So at the earliest, he must've been in John's apartment in 79.

They had studio time booked.

When John died, Paul actually got the news from a radio broadcaster named Richard Skinner. He was too upset to go on the air (obviously) but he talked privately with the guy. "we talked about John, and we talked about plans that he tells me he and John had to get together and to try and write music together again. That would've been happening that December. But the studio they'd wanted to use was booked out so they didn't work together and they were going to meet together in the new year." Going back into the studio to write and record was a huge step and would've been scary for both of them, scary enough that I seriously doubt they would've had the courage to set that up. Unless! They were spending frequent quality happy time together and they both felt like they were in a good place in the relationship.

Like everything else, it's in their music.

The lyrics of "(Just Like) Starting Over" are about rekindling an old flame with a romantic getaway. He talks about screwing someone in a motel in Montauk and doing it in the road and staying in bed with the walrus. The lyrics of the chorus are a triple Paul reference. "It's time to spread our WINGS and fly. Don't let ANOTHER DAY go by MY LOVE." The main melody comes from a beach boys song, and he's got Elvis affects on his voice. None of those musical choices were made for Yoko's benefit.

Then there's, along with "Coming Up", Paul's side of things. "Secret Friend": For most repetitions of the chorus, he says "feel like you've never felt before" but the first time he sneaks in "feel like you've never FIT before," which can only be referencing a dick, especially if he's being that coy about it. "Cast adrift on some uncharted sea" -- John's constant nautical metaphors, calling Paul his boat, his recent solo sea voyage. "I know we'll find a way. I know we'll reach the end. If you will be my secret friend." I mean. And then "Nobody Knows".

btw couldn't have found the Carl Perkins thing without Jazz! TYSM @sleeper9

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ok but have we talked about how the beginning of “here today” sounds so much like the beginning of “here, there and everywhere.” Like that same soft step into the room… the same question hanging in the air. just a few notes, unresolved, like someone walking in and forgetting why they came.

and here, there and everywhere was john’s favorite. the one he told Paul he liked most. and Paul still says that. still remembers. like it mattered more than maybe anything else they ever said aloud.

so of course, years later, Paul writes here today. like a reply. like he's reaching back in time and space.

because, once Paul said he needs his love here, there and everywhere. and now, all he can do is wonder-

if you were here today. as if to ask: where are you? as if to say: you're still with me.

like. are these two songs in conversation?? are they waving to each other across time??? are they responding????

…hello?????? is this thing on???????

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I love the John Paul post divorce song timeline

Paul: FUUUUCK YOU! (Too Many People)

John: FUCK ME!?! FUCK YOU, YOU CUNT (How do you sleep)

Paul: I'm so sorryyyyyy I didn't mean it PLEASE, I LOVE YOU <\3 (Dear Friend)

John: ...

Paul: RESPOND YOU BASTARD (Call Me Back Again)

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i’ve been trying to find this excerpt from a book where it talks about John kissing another man as a joke in front of Paul. do you happen to know where it’s from because its driving me crazy

I think you are referring to this story:

"And you, Icke?” asked Paul. “Who’s your favourite author?” “Henry Miller. I think he’s very good,” I said. In that moment John suddenly looked over at me. Until then he had been watching Bettina, the bar lady, rinsing glasses and tidying up the bar, with his typical somewhat blasé expression. Our discussion hadn’t seemed to interest him much. Now he was looking directly into my eyes. Quietly and without taking his eyes off me, he walked around the whole counter over to me, planted a kiss on my mouth and went back to his spot. At first, I was quite surprised and didn’t know what to do about it, then I found it rather funny and thought little of it. A few days later, it happened again. I passed by him in the hallway behind the stage and again he took my hand and kissed me. At some point the thought occurred to me, “man, he thinks I’m gay, but I can’t help him with that.” What was really going on, I don’t know. Maybe he meant the kisses as overtures; he was even treated as a closet case by homosexuals." (Icke, Evelyn Hamann und die Beatles: Eine Art Biografie)

Hans-Walther (Icke) Braun (a friend of the Beatles in Hamburg)

John kissed him two times. The first time, Paul was present. Icke wasn't even sure if John kissed him as a joke.

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ode to koala bear

That day was another regular session day. I think I was booked from 2pm – 5 or 6pm but as always with the possibility the session would go on a bit later, & as it was for Paul, you made yourself available of course. We put the track down with Paul playing piano, me on kit. We left the studio that evening at about 9pm (this was in December) so I think that meant 4pm New York time. It was the same day John was killed. So it may be a touch gruesome, but the Koala Bear track, (which Paul told me was about 1 of his kids toys, who were also there with Linda) was the last track Paul recorded while John was still alive. I know this is weird stuff, but I grew up loving the Beatles, & not only was it a great thrill for me to work with Paul, but such a shock to see him the following day in the same clothes he had been wearing the previous day talking to the press about Johns murder.Paul Robinson, the drummer for the session, from Steve Hoffman’s forums

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Norwegian Wood

(Allan Williams, The Man Who Gave the Beatles Away, 1976)

I once had a girl Or should I say, she once had me? She showed me her room "Isn't it good, Norwegian wood?" She asked me to stay And she told me to sit anywhere So I looked around And I noticed there wasn't a chair And when I awoke I was alone, this bird had flown So I lit a fire Isn't it good, Norwegian wood?

(Norwegian Wood, 1965)

NORWEGIAN WOOD: Me but Paul helped me on the lyric.

(John Lennon, interview for Hit Parader, 1972)

Q: What about on Rubber Soul, “Norwegian Wood”? A: I was trying to write about an affair without letting me wife know I was writing about an affair, so it was very gobbledegook. I was sort of writing from my experiences, girls’ flats, things like that. <…> I think on “Norwegian Wood” and “In My Life” Paul helped with the middle eight, to give credit where it’s due.

(John Lennon, interview with Jann Wenner for Rolling Stone, 1970)

PLAYBOY: “Norwegian Wood.” LENNON: “Norwegian Wood” is my song completely. It was about an affair I was having. I was very careful and paranoid because I didn’t want my wife, Cyn, to know that there really was something going on outside of the household. I’d always had some kind of affairs going, so I was trying to be sophisticated in writing about an affair. But in such a smoke-screen way that you couldn’t tell. But I can’t remember any specific woman it had to do with. PLAYBOY: What about the title itself? LENNON: I don’t know how the hell I got to “Norwegian Wood.”

(John Lennon (interview, 1980), All We Are Saying by David Sheff)

John had begun it [Norwegian Wood] in February 1965 while on a skiing holiday with Cynthia and George Martin and his wife Judy in St. Moritz in Switzerland. When he returned, Paul came over for a writing session in John's music room in the attic at Kenwood. This is another example of a song more or less writing itself, beginning with a classic Beatles play on words: "having" a girl and being "had". PAUL: I came in and he had this first stanza, which was brilliant: "I once had a girl, or should I say, she once had me." That was all he had, no title, no nothing. I said, "Oh yes, well, ha, we're there." And it wrote itself. Once you've got the great idea, they do tend to write themselves, providing you know how to write songs. So I picked it up at the second verse, it's a story. It's him trying to pull a bird, it was about an affair. John told Playboy that he hadn't the faintest idea where the title came from but I do. Peter Asher had his room done out in wood, a lot of people were decorating their places in wood. Norwegian wood. It was pine really, cheap pine. But it's not as good a title, "Cheap Pine", baby. So it was a little parody really on those kind of girls who when you'd go to their flat there would be a lot of Norwegian wood. It was completely imaginary from my point of view but in John's it was based on an affair he had. This wasn't the decor of someone's house, we made that up. So she makes him sleep in the bath and then finally in the last verse I had this idea to set the Norwegian wood on fire as revenge, so we did it very tongue in cheek. She led him on, then said, "You'd better sleep in the bath." In our world the guy had to have some sort of revenge. It could have meant I lit a fire to keep myself warm, and wasn't the decor of her house wonderful? But it didn't, it meant I burned the fucking place down as an act of revenge, and then we left it there and went into the instrumental.

(Paul McCartney in Many Years from Now by Barry Miles, 1998)

+ fire and wood at Gambia Terrace

+ the Macs-firebugs

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The Beatles interviewed in 1964, London airport after returning from Paris, France

PAUL: Wilder stuff I think, we- we stuck in a wilder number y’know… to finish off with-

JOHN: [mutters] ‘Gone With The Wind’

PAUL: [Instantly looks at John] ‘Gone With The Wind’ [laughs]

INTERVIEWER: They go for the Elvis Presley type of stuff though do they? I mean do they go for the rock and roll stuff?

PAUL: I think so yeah, a bit more. I might- [Paul stutters and John’s head snaps up] It depended really who was in… upon… [misspeaks and looks down at John as if he wants him to tell him what to say] depended upon who was in [John and Paul both laugh looking at each other] I- I can’t speak. Speaking French so much, you see

INTERVIEWER: What?

PAUL: *imitates French*

[John smiles and turns his whole body towards Paul]

INTERVIEWER: You’ve brushed up your French, have you?

PAUL: Nah, kidding I can’t speak a word of it.

INTERVIEWER: You still can’t speak a word?

PAUL: No… [Suddenly looks down at John] John’s… very good-

JOHN: *imitates French*

PAUL: Je- Bonsoir and all that sort of stuff very- oh he’s very good.

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NOW. I might be going crazy- but it sounds like John says something like ‘je vous veux’ (I want you) or ‘je vous aime’ (I love you) when he ‘speaks French’, although his pronunciation still has a prominent Scouse accent to it.

As with most clips, the audio quality is very poor and it’s very faint but anything is possible when these two are involved… If anyone speaks French please tell me if I’m onto something or if I’m going crazy lol

Adds a new layer to the ‘My Cheri’ home recording of John……

All the French aside, Paul is soooo obvious this whole interview. He interacts with John every chance he gets- that moment when he misspeaks and instantly looks at John so they’re both in on the joke- I mean come on…

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i did not choose to be a mclennon shipper ok? that shit walked up behind me and pushed me into a rabbit hole and THERES NO FUCKING DOOR OUTTA HERE!!!!!! GET ME OUT OF THIS ANGST FEST LIKE WYMM "IF I WAS A GIRL" WYM "I SEE HIM IN MY DREAM" WYM YOUR SELF PORTRAIT ENDED UP LOOKING LIKE HIM??????

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hi there!!! I'm so obsessed with your edits!! Esp the All I Need edit. Haunts me. do u know the song Paul by Big Thief? i feel like it would make such a good song for a mclennon edit but i don't know the first thing about editing. this isn't a request or anything i just wanted to talk about Paul by Big Thief. Whatta song.

THANK YOU

And funny you say that because i made one to that song a few months ago i think i just forgot to post it on here ( btw i fucking love big thief)

My tictok is biggielixx their is prob a few I haven’t posted on here

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is it necessarily a songwriting “feud” if the first guy writes a diss track and then the second guy writes a diss track back and then the first guy goes “fuck i’m sorry i’m in love with you i didn’t mean it let’s just all have a good time”

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“happy” pride month to these “people”

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from the official Paul McCartney Reddit account

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WHAT THE FUCK YOUR MOST RECENT EDIT HAS ME ON MY KNEES I love it so much, every line was like a punch to the gut

THANK YOU