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PAUL and LINDA McCARTNEY singing “Carry That Weight” at a concert at Soldier Field in Chicago, Il during the Paul McCartney World Tour. July 29, 1990.

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paul mccartney in nov 1967 (photo by mark and colleen hayward)

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they would never!! 😇

(Daily Mirror, 21st February 1964)

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John Lennon, Photo by Astrid Kirchherr, 1960

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John and Paul during the recording of the album Revolver.

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‘That summer it was the gay album. George and Paul singing into the mic, their cheeks touching, was the gayest thing we’d ever seen.’

- Simon Napier-Bell on Please Please me

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Paul McCartney and John Lennon at Shea Stadium (1965)

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“Another great van story was when George and Paul were both planning to drive the van; George got into the driving seat and Paul had the keys, and there was no way one was going to help the other. We couldn’t go anywhere. We sat there for two hours.” - Ringo Starr

“Going through Wales we got a ride on a truck. The trucks didn’t have passenger seats in those days so I sat on the engine cover. Paul was sitting on the battery. He had jeans with zippers in the back pockets and after a while, he leapt up screaming. His zipper had connected the positive and negative on the battery, got red hot, and burned a big red zipper mark across his arse. When we eventually got to Butlins, we couldn’t get in. It was like a German prisoner-of-war camp - Stalag 17 or something. They had barbed-wire fences to keep the holiday-makers in. So we had to break in.” - George Harrison

“[…] we had to go and see the film, just for the title song. I could just about scrape through the sixteen barrier. Even though I was baby-faced, I was just about able to bluff it in the grown-up world; but George couldn’t. He had all the attitude, but he was really young-looking. I remember going out into his back garden and getting a bit of soil and putting it on his lip as a moustache. It was ridiculous, but I thought, ‘He looks the part - we’ll get in.’ And we did.” - Paul McCartney

“I’ve been meeting Paul again, you know, Paul McCartney. We drifted off away from each other, suing, suing, sue you blues stuff. I’ve just met Paul and I just know that whatever we’ve been through, there’s always been something there to tie us together. - George Harrison

"The thing is, I knew George longer than any of the other guys in The Beatles. Doesn’t mean I knew him any better, mind, but I knew him longer. He was the kid in the school uniform with the big quiff who got on the bus stop after mine. And sometimes he’d sit down next to me and we’d start talking rock 'n’ roll. We shared our records, we learnt chords together, we even tried to make a guitar together. We did the whole teenage bonding thing, trying to pull birds, hitchhiking to Harlech, all the formative stuff. I can’t quite believe it’s over.” - Paul McCartney

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GEORGE HARRISON ’s best fashion moments

in THE BEATLES: GET BACK (2021)

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Oh gosh I've been having so many thoughts today ... I just need to put them down somewhere. Maybe the internet isn't the best place to put said thoughts, maybe I'll delete this post, I dunno yet.

This is just me rambling about memories, and about my bandmates.

I love John. He's the love of my life, I have loved him for so long, I love him, I love him. He's gonna make me have a crisis at one point, I swear to god. He drives me nuts in the best way possible. I want to be close to him again, I want to hug him again, I want to kiss him again, I want to whisper sweet nothings to him again, I want to spend evenings by watching telly together again, I want to be together again. I want to be able to be me again, and I want to be with him while I am. Aaaaaa. He makes me so happy, his existence makes me so happy, he is so amazing. I love him.

And then there's George. Lovely George. I love him, he is everything and more to me. Closer than a friend, I'd say. I have some.. memories. Of us being more than friends at one point. But we were drunk. Didn't mean much, anyway. Or at least, that's what I told myself. I don't know what I think of him. But what I do know is that I miss him. I miss him so much that, at times, it leaves a hole in my heart. It feels that way. I miss him so dearly. My dearest George — our dearest George.

And of course, Ringo. Ringo didn't deserve the stuff the band put him through. We fought and he was in the middle of it. And although he's the oldest I, at times, felt as though I had to protect him. I don't know why. He's always a ball of sunshine, our dear Ringo. I didn't give him enough compliments, I know that. He deserves so much more. My dearest friend, who had to face all the chaos which became the Beatles in the end. I truly appreciate him, I do.

I don't know how to cope with all these memories flooding my brain. I remember me and John holding hands in Paris. I remember drunken confessions with George, both of us out of our minds with drugs and beer. I remember goofing around with Ringo, while both of us were clearly not doing well, or had the energy to goof around, and yet we goofed around just for the sake of it. I remember all of us together in one hotel room, playing a game, just to distract ourselves from the intimidating outside world that were the screaming fans and the cameras and the cops and all those people.

I miss everything. I miss my life.

I miss it.

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The Beatles - Plymouth Hoe 1967

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mika's music feels like realising you're queer and crying your eyes out when a soft hand is placed on your shoulder and an older gay who made it who is evidence you'll survive tells you its all gonna be okay and you're gonna have fun

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tant que j’ai le soleil >>> staring at the sun

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Paul McCartney flirting with the audience during I’m Down THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW September 12, 1965

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Help [1965]

Just Paul being an exceptionally cute slutty lefty

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Some lovely silly pics to celebrate 65 years of John&Paul knowing each other