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baby i could treat you so good you just have to get past my strange and off-putting demeanor and my kubrick stare and my inability to behave like a human and the 40 layers of icy fortress walls i have up and answer my riddles three

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reblog this and put in the tags something you watched that terrified you as a child. i was so scared of the hot sauce in spongebob that i refused to be in the room when it was on

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Illustration for Brazilian magazine article, 2023

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by 2028 you will be cancelled for not participating in beatles rpf

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But for real. Mutuals, tell me, what groceries have you been into lately?

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why is everything so hard but not actually that hard just i cant do it

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beatlemania comes for us all

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Stalker (1979)

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what is wrong with him dawg. faux blowjob at a press conference

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always young

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Something about the cyclical nature of John and Paul losing their mothers and finding each other; finding substitute mothers and losing each other; and maybe, finally, finding a way to exist within that binary, together, just to lose each other so violently and abruptly…gonna put my head through a wall

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i’m so obsessed with this conversation

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I saw someone say recently (can't remember where, might have been on TikTok. I'm not sure.) that most of the time John and Paul would choose not to share a room together on tour. When I saw this, it confused me, because typically everything I see about room sharing on tour hints to the fact that it was usually John and Paul sharing a room.

Yeah, much has been said about this. That had confused me for a while, but I recently found this great website (https://www.beatlesabbey.com/p/14-are-you-afraid-or-is-it-true#_) that discussed this. Here is an excerpt:

"The insistence that John and Paul did not share a hotel room together on tour is categorically false. One of the tells that it’s false is that it’s information that’s only offered secondhand by biographers and others who were not in a position to know firsthand. There are only a handful of people who would know this firsthand. And of that handful of people, only a few have said anything at all about it, and of those few who have commented, all have said that John and Paul did indeed share a hotel room on tour. Notable is tour manager Bob Bonis, who literally booked their hotel rooms—“They always had a suite. George and Ringo stayed together in one room, and John and Paul in the other bedroom, and a big, big room between them." Here’s a snippet from an interview with John and Paul in 1963 —“Paul sleeps with his eyes open though,” Lennon said with a frozen smile.“Yeah— and you speak in whole sentences in your sleep,” McCartney countered.“What kind of sentences?” I asked.“It seems,” Lennon replied loftily, “that my most frequent phrase is ‘Well, get on that bloody bus then.”(“The Big Beat Craze,” Daily Mirror, September 10, 1963) And of course, we have lots of anecdotes from John and Paul themselves about writing songs in hotel rooms on tour — too many to list in a footnote — including the two of them sequestered in their shared suite at the George V in Paris and emerging having written “Can’t Buy Me Love.” And then there’s this anecdote from their 1964 Australian tour—“At the Sheraton, Malcolm Searle was given privileged access for his daily 3AK bulletins. Reporting from the kitchenette of the penthouse suite, he chatted to Paul, John and George, as Paul cooked steak and spuds for his and John’s dinner. The conversation turned playfully camp when Searle called Paul “a regular little housewife” and described the gingham apron he was wearing. “Does he cook for you very much?” John (indignantly): “Don’t say it like that, it sounds funny.” (Andy Neill and Greg Armstrong, When We Was Fab: Inside the Beatles Australasian Tour 1964, Woodslane Pty Ltd., 1964.) Note that this is Paul cooking for himself and John, not for the four of them. Also note that this is Paul cooking in the first place, at the height of Beatlemania with room service as well as an entourage of helpers available to get them any kind of food they want, just the wave of a hand away. Of course, room arrangements are flexible, when you have the whole floor, and what’s signed on the hotel register doesn’t necessarily reflect reality. Tony Barrow, who also occasionally traveled with them on tour, observed that “The Beatles hated to have separate suites when they were on the road. They happily doubled up to share a couple of bedrooms between the four of them and the pairing off was a random business that took place on the spur of the moment.” (John, Paul, George, Ringo & Me, Tony Barrow, 2005.) And while it’s maybe a bit much to go into here, it’s also worth noting that maybe there was some incentive to put it into the press that John and Paul didn’t regularly share a room, if they are being managed by someone who is well-aware of the need to keep that sort of thing private."

I must add that Tony Barrow also later said:

"They [John and Paul] often shared the same hotel rooms, not only in the early days when the group was too poor to afford suites, but even later on when we were touring the world and staying in five-star places. They changed around though; it wasn't always Paul sharing with John..."

And Paul himself said:

"It was only me that sat in those hotel rooms, in his house in the attic; it wasn't Yoko, it wasn't Sean, it wasn't Julian, it wasn't George, it wasn't Mimi, it wasn't Ringo, it wasn't Miles. It was me that sat in those rooms, seeing him in all his moods and all his little things."

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Fuck it Two of Us (2000) gif