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When trying to determine the veracity of a piece of Beatles lore make sure to always ask yourself these three important questions:

1. Is it funny?

2. Is it cunty?

3. Is it insane?

If the answer to any of these is yes then it definitely happened. Don’t worry about the source, that’s not relevant.

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John Lennon sleeping during filming of A Hard Day’s Night - 1964

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John Lennon (and a little bit of Paul McCartney) during the press conference for Apple — May 1968, New York City.

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was feeling bad earlier but then i watched part of get back and it cured me of all my ailments...when billy shows up at EMI and it's like all the lights have come back on...THANK GOD for the beatles forever and ever amen

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John Lennon and Paul McCartney performing as Pyramus and Thisbe in the 'Around The Beatles' tv special, filmed on 28th April 1964, broadcast 6th May 1964 - part 2 (part 1)

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Oh yeah I’ll 👏👏 👏👏 tell you something 👏👏 👏👏 I think you’ll understand

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What were you searching for in the old songs as you went through the manila envelope?

“Just heart, passion, something that actually made me go warm when I thought about it. 'She Said Yeah', I remember how I turned Mick Jagger on to that in the '60s. I'd always been meaning to do it and I never got around to it. I was up in the music room one day and Mick came round and I was playing some records to him and I remember Larry Williams' 'She Said Yeah' – and dancing around to it – and 'Aint Too Proud To Beg', The Tempations, he loved 'em. He actually [covered] both of them.

There was this one particular bar in Hamburg that had a jukebox and [The Beatles] used to go there and play pool with Derry and the Seniors, that was their hang-out. This jukebox had two great tunes on it, 'Smoke Gets In Your Eyes' by The Platters and 'Shake A Hand' by Little Richard and any time I was there I'd get a beer, play a bit of pool and listen to those two records. I could never find 'Shake A Hand' though, I never got the record. It's a gospel song, in America they know it by somebody else.

'Honey Hush' was a great memory for me. John and Stuart had an art student flat in Gambia [sic] Terrace, a big old-fashioned terrace with high-ceilinged rooms and the view out of the window was the Liverpool Cathedral. The first time George and I stayed out all night was there when I was about 15. And there was nothing there, we were used to beds and there was a mattress and John and Stuart were sleeping there and we were having to kip in chairs, undoing these Benzedrine inhalers because we'd read somewhere that if you undid them and chewed them they had an upper in them and we ended up talking all night. It was very frugal. It remembers better than it was, actually, no sleep, eyes burning, all that. But I remember in the morning John leaning out of this mattress, reaching over, yawning, you know, in his vest and underpants, and just putting this little Dansette on that was beside the bed and it was 'Honey Hush': "Come into this house, stop all of that yakety yak."

So it wasn't always the song or how good the singer was, it was how good my memory of it was, whether it was a really glowing hot ember of a memory. ”

“Paul McCartney: Run Devil Run.” MOJO (October 1999)

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I drew my rare Ringo

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"Mick always had to come to his house, because he was Paul McCartney, and you went to him. Paul never came to us. I was always very curious about how Mick saw him, how Mick felt about him. It was always fun to watch. There was always rivalry there. Not from Paul, none at all. Paul was oblivious, but there was something from Mick. It was good fun. It was like watching a game on the television." ㅡ Marianne Faithfull.

ㅡ From the book "One, Two, Three, Four: The Beatles In Time" by Craig Brown.

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Brian Epstein (19 September 1934 - 27 August 1967)

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Incidental Illustrations: George

These were made by @the-paper-apricot for the zine. Each is a stylised drawing made in three minutes, with charcoal and a wet brush.

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the most important thing about screwball couples is that their relationship must be fundamentally unbearable to be around. i mean like if you met them at a party they would be so off-putting, or rude, or weird, or be like conversing in code basically on a whole other plane of existence that the relationship is just intolerable. and thus they are perfect for each other