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“We nearly always went up to his little music room that he’d had built at the top of the house, Daddy’s room, where we would get away from it all. I like to get away from people to songwrite, I don’t like to do it in front of people. It’s like sex for me, I was never an orgy man. So John and I would sit down and by then it might be one or two o’clock, and by four or five o’clock we’d be done”. – Paul McCartney, Many Years From Now

immediately after admitting songwriting is like Sex he follows with Yeah so John and I would do it together. do you hear yourself paul.

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'I didnt mention this in the book but from time to time John would say to me ''I wonder what Paul is thinking about, right now.'' I said John, I've only met him a couple of times in my life you know ... I have no idea. And John would ask ''Do you think he thinks about me at all?'''

Elliot Mintz about his 70s conversations with John Lennon, Beatles Podcast 2024

“Also not obvious is that McCartney [for the Liverpool Oratorio] has penned a gorgeous black-spiritual-like piece for mezzo-soprano that intones the last words spoken to John Lennon as he lay dying of gunshot wounds in the back of a New York police car – "Do you know who you are?” McCartney gets a bit choked up at one point when he reveals, “Not a day goes by when I don’t think of John.”

Interview with Paul McCartney, 1991

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'I didnt mention this in the book but from time to time John would say to me ''I wonder what Paul is thinking about, right now.'' I said John, I've only met him a couple of times in my life you know ... I have no idea. And John would ask ''Do you think he thinks about me at all?'''

Elliot Mintz about his 70s conversations with John Lennon, Beatles Podcast 2024

“Also not obvious is that McCartney [for the Liverpool Oratorio] has penned a gorgeous black-spiritual-like piece for mezzo-soprano that intones the last words spoken to John Lennon as he lay dying of gunshot wounds in the back of a New York police car – "Do you know who you are?” McCartney gets a bit choked up at one point when he reveals, “Not a day goes by when I don’t think of John.”

Interview with Paul McCartney, 1991

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Q: You are a great admirer of John Lennon, so if John were here today, which McCartney song would you like him to play?  Paul: That's a good question, I've never really thought about it. Maybe I'm Amazed just came into my mind. It would be interesting to hear him sing that.

Q: If you had to choose one unique song of yours to be remembered in the future, which one would it be?  Paul: That's too difficult a question, your songs are like your babies - you don't want to have a favourite. But Maybe I'm Amazed, if John was gonna sing it.

Source: https://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/paul-mccartney-on-beatles-lennon-and-good-evening-new-york-city-227945 (2009)

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“When I first auditioned them I said, ‘Who’s going to be the leader, is it John or Paul?’ Such an odd couple really, because they were different and yet very similar, both had big egos, both very good songwriters, but they needed each other like mad.”

— George Martin, Mojo Magazine, 2007.

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“Paul’s (voice) was sweeter, but John gave the combination its interest and sharpness. He was the lemon juice against the virgin olive oil.” - George Martin

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“Many people’s view of the Lennon/McCartney collaboration is a simplicistic one: that Lennon was the rough and ready rocker, while McCartney was the soft sentimentalist. While that might have been partially true, their relationship went a lot deeper than that. Perhaps the most important role each played for the other was that of unbiased critic. John was pretty much the only person in the world who could turn to Paul and say “That song is shit.” – and Paul would take it. Paul was the only person who could look John in the eye and say “You’ve gone too far.“ They were usually diplomatic with each other – Paul might say to John, “Oh, I think you can do better than that.” or something similar – but that’s what it came down to. Certainly George Martin couldn’t get away with that. If he dared try, they would bite his head off.”

— Geoff Emerick, in “Here, There and Everywhere, My Life Recording The Music of The Beatles”

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so Fred Seaman, John’s last assistant, in 1981, stole John’s diaries (from 1975,1979,1980) and entrusted them to Robert Rosen, Fred’s friend

When asked about what was in the diaries in an interview, this is what Robert says:

bonus:

source: understanding Lennon/McCartney vol.5 on YouTube

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“John spoke the way James Joyce wrote. To me, he was the Beatles. He was always the spark. In a late wee-hour-of-the-morning talk, he once told me, ‘I’m just like everybody else Harry, I fell for Paul’s looks.”

— Harry Nilsson speaking about John Lennon.

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If I Fell lyrics written by John Lennon

Autograph manuscript for “If I Fell”, from “A Hard Days Night”, aboard a U.S airline, c. late February, 1963. Written on the back of a valentine which had been given to Paul, and which was apparently the only suitable writing surface available at 30,000 feet, the manuscript is 1 page, written on the verso of the unfolded valentine on one half of the sheet, approximately 11 ½ x 6 in. “If I Fell” is one of John’s most powerfully poignant ballads, and one of the most important and early songs to appear at auction. Ostensibly written while the Beatles were in America for a famous appearance on the Ed Sullivan show, John, sitting in the plane seat next to Paul suddenly got the inspiration for one of the best songs which would be released on 1964’s landmark “A Hard Days Night.” By the cadence and subtleties of the lyrics you can tell that John already has the music in his head as he fits it with the perfect words. Time stands still, something very special is coming to life as he sits working on the back of Paul’s valentine.

[Intro] If I fell in love with you Would you promise to be true And help me understand /Cause I’ve been in love before And I found that love was more Than just holding hands. 1. If I gave [changed to give] my heart to you I must be sure From the very start that you’re Gonna love me more than her 2. If I trust in you oh please Don’t run and hide If I love you too oh please Don’t hurt my pride like her. (she) Cause I couldn’t stand the pain / And I would be sad / If our new love was in vain / 3. So I hope you see that I / Would love to love you / I hope that she will cry / When she hears that we are two /

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This angelic quality [of Paul’s face] was not necessarily always reflected in Paul’s behaviour.  Hoffman noted that though in terms of verbal wit he could give as good as he got, Paul’s replies lacked the caustic edge of John’s words: “There was never really any bitterness in Paul.” 

Yet it seemed to the photographer that the vicious vitriol John would pour on often undeserving victims was quite evidently to Paul’s pleasure.  “In a way Paul wallowed in it, because John always played up to his requirements. It’s a useful thing to have somebody like that, who’s capable of putting down people you don’t like.”

 - Dezo Hoffman, photographer of little baby beatles

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'Everyone sees James Potter, I see James' by Lily Evans

Jealous Lily when she has not yet accepted her feelings for James.

She's so angry because everyone is always staring at James, fluttering around him, laughing at his jokes. He's on everyone's lips, like a superstar and she's so pissed because she's starting to GET IT and she doesn't want to.

Because she knows James is hot but he's also pretty, his smile is beautiful and his voice mesmerizing, his laugh is loud but contagious and he's been acting differently lately, he's still an idiot but at the same time he's... Gentle. Of course everyone is in love with him. Prick. Fucking attractive prick.

So Lily is furious.

She's sick of watching people touching him, hugging him, dancing with him in parties, even kissing him in the cheek. It's infuriating. Why he has to be THE James Potter? And, above all, why SHE, who saw his weak points, was also attracted to the strong ones?

It was obvious that everyone was going to be at his feet, because they only saw how cool, strong, flattering and funny James Potter was. But did they also see his arrogance? His wicked intelligence? Did they see his ability to scheme and get away with it?

Would all those people who idolize James Potter do so if, like her, they knew what his faults were?

Because if they did it, it meant they really understood him, and Lily was sure that all those people infatuated with James didn't really understand him.

Or maybe she didn't want them to understand.

Maybe she wanted to be the only one who saw beyond the magnificent James Potter. The only one who would look at him and really see him. The only one who would only laugh if his jokes were funny and not to fatten his ego, the only one who would hug him after a Quidditch match because she knew how hard he worked to not lose his pride, the only one who would kiss him on the cheek and dance with him at parties because beyond the pedestal, she knew that James was just another person, with worldly desires.

Maybe she was fed up with James Potter being THE boy and THE person at Hogwarts, because she only wanted to be around James, who was just a boy and another person at Hogwarts, with his qualities and flaws. She didn't want the glare around him, she wanted his core, his truth.

Lily Evans was furious and so fucking jealous, but not because of the people around James Potter, but because of everything that James was and she couldn't have, because she kept telling herself over and over that she didn't want to have him.

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One of my students saw this pic of Paul as my phone wallpaper and asked me who it was. I told her it was my secret boyfriend. She was quite impressed.

(It’s such a secret he doesn’t even know)

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happy valentine’s!

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Get yourself a man who looks at you like John looks at Paul 😍

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True love ❤️

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From Rob Sheffield's article on Paul's Bowery show:

He told a great story about listening to the Sirius Beatles channel in his car and hearing a tune he fancied. “I made the driver turn it up,” Paul marveled. “He said it was a song called ‘Sweet Sweet Memories’ and I said, ‘I don’t remember that at all!’” It’s a 1993 outtake from Off the Ground. “He said it was a B side to a CD single! Do they even have B sides, CD singles? Maybe they do.”

lol at Paul having made so much music that he just forgets some of it but is still sitting there going, "hey, that's pretty good! Nice job, Past Paul!"