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“Paul’s earliest memory, probably from around the age of three or four, is of his mother. He remembers someone coming to the door and giving her a plaster dog. ‘It was out of gratitude for some delivery she had done. People were always giving her presents like that.’ 'I have another memory of hiding from someone, then hitting them over the head with an iron bar. But I think the plaster dog was the earliest.’”

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The Beatles, Hunter Davies

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Perfect Match 五福临门 (2025) Dir. Yang Huan

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30 JANUARY 1969: THE BEATLES' ROOFTOP CONCERT

"If I had to single out one event that stood out above all the others during the time I was in the music industry and working with the Beatles, it would by far be their last “concert.” That wild and impromptu event presented the end of a time warp, an intimate gathering, a worldwide event, and a moment like no other. It took place during the punishing cold midday of Thursday, January 30, 1969, and warmed our hearts.

(...) There were just a few of us up there and it felt good—it was personal; it was special—and we got to witness a gathering of Rock ‘n’ Roll angels expecting to fly. Words and music soon soared out of the very heart of the staid Mayfair financial district and into the ears and souls of the unsuspecting people on the streets. London was the center of cutting-edge music, and in the neighboring buildings of this vibrant city, secretaries, bankers, wool merchants, and deliverymen alike were jolted alive by the rockin’ that was rollin’ off the Apple rooftop.

Everyone within a mile of that place will proudly state for the rest of their lives that they were there the day the music came wafting down the streets, echoing and slamming up against the red brick buildings. Melodies and rim shots blew in through the cracks and into board meetings, while Lords and loonies alike stood frozen along Savile Row, necks craned upward to the rooftops. They immediately knew who it was—they were just trying to work out what was happening. These were not the usual sounds coming down the roads of London’s sedate financial district at lunchtime.

Soon the streets and sidewalks were clogged by voluntary standstill, open windows started dotting the sides of the once sealed buildings, and bodies began lining the ledges of the adjoining structures. It was all so unexplainable, yet so incredibly wonderful."

"THE ROOF: THE BEATLES' FINAL CONCERT" by Ken Mansfield

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— Paul McCartney for the documentary "Beatles '64" on Disney+, 2024.

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Now And Then: The Last Beatles Song (Short Film), 2023

Paul and George

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GEORGE HARRISON and PAUL McCARTNEY in THE BEATLES: GET BACK (2021) dir. Peter Jackson

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“The Beatles occupied a cultural space that overlapped with, but was not quite the same as, the one staked out by their contemporaries, and one not easy to define. They used some avant garde ideas, but would have refused to be aligned with any such movement. They impinged on the politics of youth, but were not really motivated by it. They laughed at the idea of intellectualising what they were doing. They had no theory. They were inquisitive, adventurous and playful, picking up ideas from all over, mingling novelty with nostalgia in an almost childlike way. And perhaps that childlike playfulness is the secret of their artistic freedom: They never did grow up enough - never did take themselves, or anyone else, seriously enough - to become hostage to the random fortunes of cultural trends. The adolescent imperatives of the rock mainstream with its virtuosic axe-hero blues-noodlers largely passed them by, while they rowed their boat into odd backwaters to dally among the tangerine trees, the flowers of Rishikesh and childhood summers in Penny Lane. The genius of the Beatles owed much to a childlike insularity from the world, which was both the innocent spur for, and a reinforced secondary effect of, their fame.”

— Martin Shough, Truant Boy - Art, Authenticity and McCartney

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RINGO & PAUL: A MINI COMPILATION

McCartney offers a further, more emotional reminiscence: "I probably bore him by telling him the moment when the three of us realised he was The Guy. In my recollection it’s at the Cavern and there's me, John and George — which, right there, is pretty cool — standing at the front doing our thing, facing out on the mics. And then behind us there's this new guy depping, who we knew we liked — we'd seen him in another band. But now he was playing with us. And it just felt so different. It felt so amazing, and it just locked in with what we were all about. And I have this very vivid recollection of kind of looking at John and him looking at me and looking at George and him looking at me, and the three of us are going, 'What the fuck, this is fucking amazing!" As McCartney describes this, he wipes his eye. "And as you can see, it gets emotional. There was a moment."

Keith Smith, Assistant Engineer: All I can say about Ringo is that you just have to listen and watch him playing drums with Paul on bass, it's pure synergy. I can't think of any other way to describe it. He is a completely unique drummer and when they play together it's as near to perfect and natural as I have ever witnessed. It is something that still to this day hasn't changed.

McCartney digresses for a moment to describe the most recent example of getting-together-with-Ringo, nine days before this conversation, at the end of his show at Dodger Stadium: "Just the other night we finished our tour in Los Angeles and Ringo got up and we were doing 'Helter Skelter' together, and when I wasn’t on the mic, in the solo breaks and stuff, I really made a point of turning round and watching this guy drum. And thinking, 'My God, you know, the memories across this ten-yard gap here,' with him on the drums and me on the bass. The lifetime that’s going on here, and here he is! And I was just listening to him during that song. I was doing my performance but basically [he sings] When I get to the bottom I go back to the top — as I’m doing that bit, there’s normally just the guitars sort of playing, but Ringo did what’s on the record" — McCartney sings the drum part to demonstrate — "building. So I’m going, 'Oh yeah, great.' So you know it’s a sort of magic."

"It’s always a special experience to play with Paul," says Ringo now. "I love Paul and I love his playing and, you know, we spent a lot of time together in the sixties."

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