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Paul and John in the ABC Cinema backstage interview - June 30, 1963

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maybe the first person ever to mclennon blog from the Arctic tundra. im pushing boundaries

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the women in the story of the beatles and their mythos are truly so overlooked and it's to the detriment of how every beatle author and fan even talks about the timeline of things and motivations. like for example I was just thinking about the way that in the early 70s, yoko ono was so upset by her multiple miscarriages and her ongoing search for her daughter, who was kidnapped by her father and eventually just completely disappeared for a long time, that she would have john turn the tv channel if she even saw a child- let alone being around one in person. and while there's a million other reasons john & paul kept their distance for a long time, you have to wonder if that wasn't a large impact too. like the mccartneys would've been visiting with their whole passle of young children, one of whom was kyoko's age and one who was the same age their miscarried child would've been. and yet that's just never brought up as a possible explanation. and the miscarriages themselves are brushed over as a possible reason for tension (aside from being a catalyst for their heroin use) when like yeah no shit john & yoko were probably incredibly jealous and hurt by the mccartneys having this family they couldn't. like that's just a human reaction, but it's a "woman's" issue.

and those are just two very small examples I was thinking about today while reading but like it's genuinely everywhere. I had an anon earlier that I never answered asking me why anyone should Have to care about the women in the story if they just want to focus on the men. and that's why lol. you miss out on a lot when you ignore the most important people in their lives. who were women.

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starting a collection

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John Lennon on sex and love

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Are you currently looking forward to something?

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Paul getting accosted by Martha - 1967

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octopus’s garden perfectly captures the energy of a nine year old boy drawing a picture of him and a bunch of underwater friends while holding back tears because mummy and daddy won’t stop screaming and throwing shoes at each other the next room over

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And somebody spoke and I went into a dream

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everyone has that one coworker

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Backstage photos my beloved

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so you mean to tell me that this one teen boy just met the love of his life randomly (cosmic intervention) on this day 68 years ago and changed the trajectory of everyone's life so now we celebrate it as a public holiday on tumblr

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Interviewer: You said in a Playboy interview that's probably more than a decade old now that all of you, and maybe especially you because you were the primary collaborator, coveted John's approval. And you were quoted as saying he was the oldest, which is indisputable- Paul: No, it isn't, he wasn't. Ringo was the oldest. Interviewer: But he was the older of I guess the two of you. Paul: Older. Interviewer: The older, right, that's correct. That is correct, let's get the chain of progression here- Paul: Let's get the old thing here, you know- Interviewer: Old, older, oldest- Paul: Ringo, very old. John, senile. Me, ancient, but a little less ancient. No, go ahead. Interviewer: So anyway. You are also quoted as saying that he was the smartest and the quickest wit. Paul: Yeah. Interviewer: Were you being kind, or is that true? Paul: No, I-I-I-I certainly think that was true. I certainly think John was the quickest wit. That was- there was no doubt about that, no contest. Um, that was definitely true. Um, and we did covet his, uh, you know respect, his- his attention and stuff. I think, you know, having said that, I wouldn't mind betting he coveted ours. You know, we don't think of that. You never know. I just know what I felt, I don't know what he felt. And John was not very forthcoming about what he felt. He was quite a private person. And you'd- you'd only ever see it in tiny little instances, you know, that he- that he... I remember once, I mean once, you know one of the things I remember about John is silly little things. You don't remember all the great big moments, they just went by in a flash. You know, meeting the Queen, "Hi there." (woosh) Gone, you know. But you remember stupid little things. I remember we were kind of arguing once about something musical or something and I remember John just kinda taking his glasses down and sort of saying, "It's only me," and putting them back up again. Um, you know, so maybe he did have, uh, similar feelings towards us that we had to him, but he- he just, uh, didn't make it perhaps as obvious. But, uh, we were Lennon fans, definitely, you know? He was a great guy.

(1991)

Interviewer: And when that happened, did you compliment each other? Paul: Once. Interviewer: One time? Paul: John gave me a compliment. Interviewer: In how many years? Paul: (Laughing) Only once, the whole time. No, um, I think it was Revolver. "Here, There, and Everywhere" was one of my songs on it and um, but John sort of- just when it finishes, "That's a really good song, that. I like that." I was like, "Yes! He likes it!" you know. (Laughing) I've remembered it to this day. It's pathetic, really. Interviewer: Did you ever heap praise on him? Paul: Yeah, I would tell him his stuff was great. Mm- You'd normally have to be a little bit drunk. It helped.

sharyn alfonsi & paul mccartney on 60 minutes (2018)

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