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I NEED TO SHARE THIS INFO WITH YOU GUYS!!

My boyfriend did a suprise for me and booked flight to Liverpool with hotel. I’ll be visiting our boys city in April and I’m so excited!

I was dreaming about this for last 13 years and now it’s coming true. I cannot believe it yet, because I was always hard working to make my dreams come true and never had enough money to this trip🥹🥹

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They way that no one really holded each other hand except for John and Paul

fuck offfff. nvm. fuck on

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okay so maybe he is jesus

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HELLOOOOOOOO????

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Honestly, it’s one of my favourite photos of them. Just look at the love in John’s eyes, like the whole world consisted only of Paul. The closiness, slight touch of feet. Unpinned shirt that make me feel like he was really confortable there. And John ready to be physicall and mental support for him.

stumbled across this picture that i had probably not seen since my first beatles phase more than a decade ago & had completely erased from my memory as a sort of self-preserving mechanism because what the fuck. what the fuck

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Really proud of my dudes

The Beatles won the grammy for the The Best Rock performance Award with Now and Then!🎉🎉🎉💙💙

See Sean Lennon accepting the award!

They continue to make history💙

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Paul McCartney in the garden of his home at Cavendish Avenue, London, 1970. Photographed by Linda McCartney.

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always thinking about the audio of john asking paul if he dreamed about him last night, and telling him he was touching him in his dream. and george in the background being like 🤨🏳️‍🌈❓ “was it sexually oriented?”

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Behold: Paul at his most awkward interview (that I recall)

This gifset is from ep 1 on UML (start watching around 27:22 minutes), which means this interview came to my attention in the context of mclennon initially.

Don't know if this is indeed a mclennon situation, but I think this is the most awkward interview of (a normally very put together) Paul that I remember. This is an interview from around June 1964, while Jimmie Nicol was subbing for Ringo in the Netherlands.

We fade into the interview, where the interviewer brings a question from the audience:

Q: The question we just had: were any of you (ever) in love?

John: Me.

Paul: Yes, he's married.

John: That's right!

(Note: The others seem either awkward or giddy about this, perhaps because this is the first time John talks about being married publicly?)

Q: Does that put you in an exceptional position?

John: On Sunday, yeah.

(It's a 100% juvenile dad joke, but I actually think it's really funny. Paul's response, however-- his smile drops from his eyes and he squirms in his chair... )

Q: Would you want to get married, the others?

Paul: No, I don't like marriage.

Which causes John to nudge him repeatedly.

Paul: No good. No good, marriage.

Then, John pretend to cradle a baby in his hands (someone call 1969 Paul stat!).

Paul looks down and away, touches the back of his neck, and John breaks whatever's going on by looking at the camera and grabbing a drink (it's George who comes to Paul's rescue, off camera, saying something about having enough money first).

Well, thank god that's over, whatever that was.

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the infamous “if i was a girl, maybe i could go out and…” paul quote is so insane to me because like… he doesn’t want john to NOT be a man, he wants it to be socially acceptable to be with john exactly as he is

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★ : John Lennon & Paul McCartney photographed by David Bailey, January 21 1965

I told John to close his eyes because I could feel this tension between him and Paul. I did them afterwards; I got them looking different ways because there was such a tension. — David Bailey

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Almost dick to dick

No guys you're right there really isn't any space at all in that room to spread out a little bit and not sit shoulder to shoulder thigh to thigh that's fine.

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The Beatles: Get Back (2021)

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I really love this deep investigation! It was really nice to read and think about.

Beatle freaks, please share more of your confessions like this!

Sorry for taking so long on this post, I've been writing it in my head for weeks trying to figure out how to phrase everything. But umm I think Paul was in a bath tub when he was taking certain photos of John.

So the book itself is divided into sections based on location. There's a London section, a Paris section, then they go to New York and then on to Miami, etc. The London section is really interesting and the photos are very revealing IMO. I definitely recommend getting your hands on a physical copy, your local library may have it. This is something you should experience physically because uh. There's a lot of John in here. To me at least it's very obvious how deeply in love Paul was with John.

So imagine for a minute that you're Paul McCartney, and you're in London, England with your best mate.

The way that journalists are treating this set of photos makes me feel a little insane because so many of them are saying "this is John and Paul backstage!" Y'all, this is not John and Paul backstage. This is John and Paul in their hotel room. Alone.

First off let's look at this:

Here's John shaving the stubble off his face. Sunglasses still on; John had prescription sunglasses so if he's wearing these then his contacts are not in. Look at the background of this photo:

John's in the way here but that is a set of curtains in a hotel room! You can tell from the horizontal bar on top, those are to hold the black out curtains. And another thing: I think these are John and Paul's suitcases sitting on top of a wardrobe. Not entirely sure about that though since the image is so grainy.

At this point John has taken off his sunglasses, he's brushing his teeth and has washed his face. Again, look at the background:

This is a medicine cabinet, a storage feature in bathrooms to keep toiletries safe from the humidity caused by a bath and/or shower. I don't know how common these are anymore:

What I find interesting about this sequence of photos is that John first pulls a funny face for Paul:

But then something grabs his attention:

Spits out the toothpaste:

And then off John nyooms...making soft eyes at Paul no less.

Pay close attention to the background on this photo! We're seeing the hotel window from another angle, the horizontal strip at the top is the tell:

I outlined the horizontal strip on the curtain and then drew lines on the dips in the fabric so you can compare it to the OG photo:

Paul is utilizing an interesting run-and-gun style of camera shooting here, he's got John tilted and at an angle that puts John over Paul. Unconsciously signaling something? Let's move on...

According to this strip...

...this is the next photo in the sequence:

Again calling attention to more interesting details here:

John's tie is missing and his shirt is undone. And that looks like a towel in his hands. He's turning in for the night.

2. John is standing in front of a reinforced door which are common in hotels but are not common in dressing rooms:

3. This photo is itself a reflection of John's face that Paul has taken in a mirror, maybe a vanity mirror. Someone in the McLen discord server said it was too small to be a vanity mirror and I'm inclined to agree, so maybe it's a compact or hand mirror propped up on the sink.

So what does this mean? I think that John and Paul were getting ready for bed, someone knocked on the door, and John went to answer it. You'd think Paul would but for some reason he didn't. Oh and another thing...check out the four jackets in the mirror:

They're definitely hanging from something so John and Paul were looking out for the suits that night.

Next in the sequence, John is back at the sink washing up. Check out the hotel window curtain being reflected in the mirror there!

Then something kind of odd happens...John is seen coming back and re-entering the shot again? Through out Eye of the Storm Paul emphasizes a lot of duality with John, including a shot where John reflects on his own sculpted face. Paul was very interested in John doing performing the act of reflection on his own face:

But here's the really interesting bit and what makes me think Paul was naked in a bathtub when he took these last two photos:

Y'all, that's the fluffy fringe of a towel! You can tell that the threads are hanging down from it! These are very different from the clean lines of the curtain or the medicine cabinet or even the lines of their suit jackets! Paul was sitting in or on the edge of the bath tub when he took these photos of John! He wrapped a towel around his camera to protect it from getting wet! Cameras are generally made for right handed people so when Paul had his finger on the button on the right hand side. That means Paul keeping his finger on that button pushed the edge of the protective towel over the lens!

So I submit to you Paul McCartney's Eye of the Storm, where he submitted a film strip where he was staying in a hotel room with John and was most likely nude and bathing when he took John's photographs! Someone knocked on the door to get their attention while Paul was naked so John answered the door for them, while Paul followed him a little. John was enjoying having Paul right there for him too:

PLEASE get Eye of the Storm, it's such a great book and there's so much in it. Paul lets the pictures speak for themselves and wow they have one hell of a story to tell!

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