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“I still feel really comfortable playing with Paul, yes. We have all that history and it comes into play when we work together. You can’t just dismiss that. You’re never going to lose the closeness of those eight years we spent together. We played some great music and we were brothers; no matter what goes on up and down, we were very close. I don’t know of any other band who got that close. And we got that close because we loved each other and the pressure that only the Beatles had. No other band has had that much pressure. So all of those factors come into play when we meet each other. We know what went on. Nobody else knows. Everybody thinks they know, and they have ideas, and they write books about it, but actually only the Beatles know how heavy that was.

Paul and I used to work very hard. A lot of it fell into place, but the drummer and the bass player have a foundation to set, for everything else to be able to go on. And as I say, he is the most melodic bass player. He plays melodies within the melodies. He’s like the sea bed, or I’m the sea bed and he’s the bottom water, and everything goes up from there. Like bubbles.”

— Ringo Starr, Club Sandwich, 1997

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I love this jealous Paul song that could so be about John 😂

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twink on a boat vibes this afternoon

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6/25/2025

The fag of the day is Paul McCartney!

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NIGHT BEFORE

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me when I’m definitely not singing about the guy who wrote all you need is love

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Sean William Randall Canadian, b.1965 Prelude to Spring 2023

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I haven't done anything special for paul's birthday but i've just remembered this drawing and i don't think i've ever posted it?? anyways, happy birthday paul! love you and everything your music has given me 💕🎂

and martha's birthday was also 2 days ago!!

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Voormann-inspired sketches

fucking or fighting? is there any difference in hamburg?

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weird question but if the beatles got matching tattoos, what would they be, where would they be, when would they have got them done and why would they eventually regret it? thanx!

not weird at all, very cute!

my first thought was tattoos in Hamburg bc that'd very much be a prelllies and pints sort of night. and it'd be laughably on-brand to leave Pete out and get a tattoo with the bloke who isn't even your drummer yet.

but! my decided answer is a tattoo for the Sgt. Pepper launch. I'm imagining the logo on the inner forearm they're never beating the cult allegations with this one but nothing too huge and garish. they'd come to mean more after Brian's death, and feel like a physically unifying grief.

years later, there would be mixed reactions on the decision.

George will regret it bc "I don't want to go on the roof" and in a year he'll prefer something more religious anyway - something as religious as wishing he had no tattoos at all. at a certain age he becomes too old and content to care about it, though.

in that way, he'll finally be catching up to Ringo, who laughs about it now as he laughed about it when it seemed like an ironic commitment in 1970. it could've been worse anyway. at least the design is a drumhead and they didn't permanently stick him with an instrument he doesn't even play.

Paul, on the other hand, will get nit-picky about the design, the placement, the shading, but he won't regret the tattoo. with time the lines will fade as their youth does - as their friends do - but in their old age he and ringo will always see it while playing at a piano or drum kit, and they'll smile that a piece of their old bandmates should still be there with them, if not in the flesh then on the flesh.

John spends a decade oscillating between his fondness and disdain for it, all dependent upon his status with Paul at the time. after the split, he'll say it was all paul's daft idea and at the very least, they'd all imagined something different, better. but that's only bc now it stings as if it were as fresh and inflamed as when he got it. by the last half of a long decade, though, it'll always be the only thing that stays up with him through sleepless nights at the Dakota. and he'll remember that it's not so bad - things weren't always so bad. when he touches it, can Paul feel it too...as in a dream? hm, regret seems like such a strong word.

(oh, and John and Paul already have matching ones that they got in Paris but never told anyone about.)

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Jane Asher & The Beatles at Dezo Hoffmann's studio on Wardour Street in London, England | 24 June 1963

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John Lennon at the Astoria Ballroom in Middlesbrough, England | 25 June 1963 © Peter Hall

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The Beatles at the Astoria Ballroom in Middlesbrough, England | 25 June 1963 © Leslie Bryce

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Homies saw Yoko with a tall, attractive lady wearing glasses and went like "for sure that's John Lennon 😁"

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Beatles in Colour → Paul McCartney in GREEN For @hopelesshardrockfan

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Paul McCartney 1963 Tenerife Vacay Moodboard: