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shhhhh mcstarr is cooking.....

upd : mcstarr is ready!!!

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drumming practice

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whenever i look up mclennon i'm just baffled at how there is no context for anything they do together. it's like spinning a bottle but the only option it lands on it is ''idk they were just gay man''

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One pose George × Ringo photos

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starrison after the beatles breakup:

mclennon after the beatles breakup:

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I love drawing George so much

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hii! i saw your mcharrison collage (which is beautiful, btw!) and i was wondering where you found the stories of paul & george going into the woods when they were younger, along w/ the poem that paul wrote abt george? (i tried looking it up on google but i couldn't find anything)

hi! tysm it was rlly fun to make :)

there’s a few sources where both paul and george talk about hitchhiking together, mainly in Anthology (but also in some other miscellaneous interviews you can find online + books that talk abt their teenage years before their teddy boy era; there’s lots of little stories abt them hitchhiking and going into the woods sprinkled online and in physical media abt them, but you get the gist).

some pics from 1959 during different hitchhiking expeditions:

as for the poem paul wrote for george, it’s a poem found in paul’s 2001 book Blackbird Singing. though it’s not said to be explicitly about george, when you look at the poem it’s pretty apparent it’s about him (imo)

i’ve seen people say it could be about john but it has to be about someone he’s known since childhood, and paul met john when they were teenagers, while paul and george had known each other since they were kids on the bus together and were an infamous duo among people who knew them.

“It used to be PaulnGeorge… as one word. They were the kids from the grammar school. That’s how we referred to them. For ages we didn’t even know George really, he was just ‘Paul’s mate’.” — Len Garry

“I knew George long before the others. We were good chums despite his tender years as it seemed to me then. We were always together.” — Paul McCartney

you could also make the claim this is actually a later poem about linda, with the “when we’ve seen / the babies doze off” line, but everything before that focuses a lot on a shared childhood that paul and linda just didn’t have together.

also, “let’s remember fifties cars” to me is a clear indicator it’s about george, since he was a car fanatic his whole life. the whole poem to me is very reminiscent of their teddy boy era in general.

plus paul’s very descriptive and senses-focused wording in the poem made me think of this quote from him :)

“George told me once that I smelt like home. I got all paranoid, you know, thinking I smelt of fish and chip shops or dirty bars or something. But he said no, I just always smelt of home.” — Paul McCartney

another paul quote to end !

“Thing is, there’s a lot about me and George that the public don’t know about, and I like it better that way. That night was very personal, and very special to me. It’s one of my favourite memories.” — Paul McCartney

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Im a day late but happy pride to the most iconic polycule

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if they were here today, paul would kiss both john and george like he always does with ringo

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if mclennon is the ''married and divorced'' breakup gone toxic arc then lennison is the ''never even got together in the first place'' breakup gone toxic arc

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Why do you think that John seemed so affected by George's new bonds? George never stopped talking good about him anyway. They didn't fight like George and Paul.

First of all, John had many issues, especially abandonment issues. A lot has been talked about John's problems so I want to focus on George for a bit.

We know that George had many obsessions during his lifetime and there are always jokes about his hyper fixations in the fandom, but it is important to notice that George managed to charm every single object of his affections into a lifetime friendship. Some examples are:

He went from wanting to learn sitar to becoming part of Ravi's family.

Bob Dylan wrote with him, became his friend and even accepted to join a band with George.

George liked Monty Python and Eric Idle was there when he passed away.

George liked F1 races, and many pilots ended up becoming very close friends.

How did George manage to create these bonds with people he was so obsessed over? Without context, George sounds like a stalker in most cases (he video taped Dylan constantly, Eric Idle didn't want to talk to him at first, he offered Ravi money for his first sitar lessons, etc...) but people let him in because all agree that George was sweet, genuinely interested and humble about what he liked. His personality and dedication won over many talented people who appreciated his attention, support and love.

For many years, most of that attention was focused on John but I think that John took it for granted until eventually George's love was also directed to too many places for his taste and the book was probably the definitive proof that George didn't love him like he used to. John went from George following around to communicate mainly through occasional postcards. Now, if we add John's abandonment issues and him over sharing with the press, we get that unfortunate playboy interview that ended up being John's final message to George.

It's not like John lost George's admiration or respect, but he wasn't good at reciprocating it and isolated himself. George then went with people who wanted to be with him and didn't chase after John anymore. George could never have guessed the effect that "omitting" John from his book caused.

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loving john by may pang // paul mccartney interviewed in come together: lennon and mccartney in the seventies by richard white