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The Beatles during the filming of Magical Mystery Tour at Watergate Bay in Newquay, England | 13 September 1967

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“I felt resentment so I used that situation the same as I used withdrawing from heroin to write ‘Cold Turkey’. I used my resentment and withdrawing from Paul and the Beatles and the relationship with Paul to write ‘How Do You Sleep?’. I don’t really, you know… go around with those thoughts in my head all the time, I wanted to make a funky track and this is a good way to make it.”

— John Lennon, 1980 interview (via wearingraincoats)

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heart eyes for grandpa 🤍

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Has anyone done this before

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John Lennon during a press conference at the Cinnamon Cinder youth nightclub in Los Angeles, CA | 23 August 1964

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More Beatles in Peanuts style but now Martha is there too (mad day out outfits)

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mclennon based on this post

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The Beatles at the Gaumont Cinema in Bournemouth, England | 23 August 1963 © Leslie Bryce (I)

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Ringo Starr circa 1967

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Pin-up girls

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So I was reading through the Northern Songs Wikipedia page today. Did you guys know John and Paul were also legally bound with equal shares in two more companies? Maclen published their music in the US and Lenmac published it in the UK.

Also this was super dark and twisted. When Dick James bought all those Northern Songs shares he took out a life insurance policy on them worth 500,000 so he could protect his investment if one of them died?

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Happy Birthday, Linda McCartney (b. 24 September, 1941)

"My mum had a massive influence on me, not just in what she wore and how she looked, but in her spirit." - Stella McCartney "My mum was quite a wanderer. She had a real sense of adventure and a cheekiness to her." - Mary McCartney "Mum was beautiful, lovely, peaceful, joyous and so sweet." - James McCartney ""Her strength, her passion, everything that we are, all of it is in Mary, Stella, James, and me, and my dad" - Heather McCartney "She was a very fun person to be with, very amusing and very witty. She had a great take on life, and of course she was very artistic. There wasn't a lot of sadness about her at all. She was an upbeat lady." - Paul McCartney

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Paul has always said that Johh was straight and that there was never any hint of John liking men. He knew him and we didn't, so he knows what he's talking about. Unless you want to call Paul a liar.

"None of us directly connected to the Beatles have publicly acknowledged that John had less than conventional sexual attachments. We all thought that to ignore such things would go down better with the world, forgetting that to deny these parts of John – and John had been open to others about himself – would be to deny another level of complexity to John’s personality. " (Pauline Stutcliffe)

''A few days later, it happened again. I passed by him in the hallway behind the stage and again he took my hand and kissed me. At some point the thought occurred to me, “man, he thinks I’m gay, but I can’t help him with that.” What was really going on, I don’t know. Maybe he meant the kisses as overtures; he was even treated as a closet case by homosexuals.'' (Icke Braun)*

*The first time John kissed him, Paul was in the same room with them, which makes Paul's claim that "there was never any hint of that" even funnier. And Pauline implies that people in the Beatles inner circle knew about this too. So it is very hard for me to imagine that everyone was aware of this except Paul.

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reblog if 55 years ago the monkees gave you head

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I hate paul mccartney