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Amen. John was the most brilliant and charismatic of them all

All of the straight men in John Lennon's life looked at him and Paul like 'I could be his Paul. that could be me' and it's so embarrassing

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My beloved John. Always and forever

Why is he so precious to me

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Only because John was brilliant and charismatic. Can you blame them?

All of the straight men in John Lennon's life looked at him and Paul like 'I could be his Paul. that could be me' and it's so embarrassing

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This is me every day. Come at me. The amount of hatred directed at him and the fact that people are determined to present him in the worst possible light pisses me off

I’m blocking anyone that says anything negative about John today. I just have no patience for it

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Rest in peace John Lennon. You will always be loved and never be forgotten. Love you always

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This is such a ridiculous take. Anyone who knows anything about John knows he was deeply insecure and never went around telling everyone he was a genius in a serious way. Then the bullshit about Paul being the chosen one. If Paul was a chosen one, so was John. They were both brilliant and admired each other for their brilliance.

This is, by no means, original thought. However, after the release of Beatles ‘64, I just want someone to make a Beatles film that is for us. Forget the mainstream and do what Cynthia said had never happened - people getting the emotion right instead of just the facts. The Beatles story isn’t a success story, it isn’t a rags to riches story, it isn’t an even a story about genius, it’s a story that has the power to change the world and one that will be told for ever. We are living in an era where we get to witness a myth being made and so in tribute to the oral tradition, we need to be the myth-makers. Someone needs to tell the story. I hope it will be Paul. I fear it won’t. Perhaps he can’t or shouldn’t, perhaps he won’t be believed. He definitely won’t be if everyone, including him, keeps recycling the same tropes. We know there’s no new stuff to be created, but there is a new light to be shed on what we know is there. This is beginning to sound a bit like the discovery of the Book of Mormon. No one needs another religion, but we do need is for someone to actually attempt to approach this seismic cultural event with an honest and open perspective.

Yoko allowed John to believe he was the genius. John’s canonisation (his manufactured image does him no favours) means that we can forget that Paul was the revered one in the 60s. He was the chosen one - in every way. John clocked it at their very first meeting.

“I half thought to myself, He’s as good as me, I’d been kingpin up to then. Now, I thought, if I take him on, what will happen?”- John

He took a risk, he made his choice and then never again believed in his own ultimate superiority. The story he’d told himself growing up, was that nobody was capable of spotting his genius because they were all below him. Surely a trauma response to being abandoned by his parents. Never could stand to be ignored, forever desperate to be seen and yet incapable of taking off the armour of cruelty. Look at me! Paul was the same, not armour but a wall of charm. Underneath John was soft and Paul is that almost impenetrable wall. They let each other in, and each betrayed the other. Those instincts of self-preservation that John spoke about.

Anyway, he took the chance on Paul, because he wanted to be somebody and Paul and him together made that a real possibility. Also, Paul was fucking hot and clever and talented. He was also a non-conforming weirdo who made everything look effortless and wouldn’t join John’s gang and wouldn’t let him lead. I wonder if this was Paul knowing, from the first moment of seeing John as was then confirmed by subsequent sightings and (I suspect) recces, strategically carried out to observe John (oh that bus worship carries some significance beyond an appreciation for public transport), that he knew how to handle John. Handle and manage John, in order to make him his very own.

(Is it him? Does it matter, because Paul has told us he “noticed” John many times, even before the chocolate bar.)

But, all the Paul adulation, especially John’s own uncontrollable, unconditional veneration, got to be too much. He couldn’t keep his jealousy in check. No quantity of material objects, women, money, food, fame soothed the ache for long enough. He thought Yoko, and because I am sure this is what Yoko promised him, was the only person who would always be in awe of him. She wasn’t, and the really tragic part is that Paul was from the jump, he still is and his faith never waivered.

If only they’d been able to maintain the connection and never lose the ability to read each other’s minds.

They burned too brightly. They loved too hard.

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Reposting only because the journalist said John Lennon was ephemerally sexy and I love that description

finally some good fucking journalism

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For those that take everything Cynthia said at face value, I say do your own research

“If dad can’t come and see me then why can’t I go and see him?” he asked. What could I say? “I think he’s very busy getting settled in America. I’m sure he’ll be in touch soon.” But as time passed with no word Julian drew his own conclusions. “Dad’s always telling people to love each other,” he said to me one day, “but how come he doesn’t love me?” - Cynthia Lennon, John: A Biography

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hehehehehehehehehe

I love them all

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It’s been well documented by lots of people that Linda was a weak singer and a poor piano player so this isn’t surprising. She was fantastic photographer but not a trained musician so is this really surprising. You can’t be brilliant at everything. And shocker some people didn’t like her. Not everyone likes everyone.

I guarantee if this was about Yoko you would all be reblogging this without a single protest. And Yoko was a trained piano player before she met John lol.

so my husband is a roadie and he's out on show right now with a guy who did sound for Paul in 89. My husband and this guy are barely acquaintances so he's not going to bug him much more, but here's what we got.

Paul and Linda "forced" their crew to eat veggie (knew that. They just didn't want to buy meat and they fed their crew for free which not everyone does. You always have the option to go off site if you want to buy something else.)

The crew had code words for when Paul and Linda were coming so they'd act right around them

Paul was nice, cool, one of the guys etc but Linda was a bitch (rolling my eyes so hard I'm beating Paul at eye yoga)

They would turn Linda's piano down because they thought she was so unbearably bad. (She had been playing keys on hit records and sell-out shows for almost twenty years stfu) They would've just muted her only Paul would be like "can't hear Lin, could you turn her up a bit mate?"

One rigger was so pissed at Linda (didn't give any reason except that she was controlling of Paul, which idk what that has to do with you, rigger, unless you wanted to fuck him or something and you think she's the one standing in the way of that but whatever) that he quit and before he left he put a bag of dog food by Linda's piano to be like "here's some food for your puppy dog". (They definitely got kinky with that that night I guarantee Paul loved being her good boy.)

But really, the shit Linda put up with for the entirety of their marriage. Heads would've rolled.

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I have to reblog. Dark humour at its finest

after hearing "simply having a wonderful christmas time" by paul mccartney 74 times while working in retail, I came to the conclusion that they shot the wrong beatle

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This concept that Paul is still in John’s shadow is actually pathetic at this point. If anything John’s contributions have been the ones that have been ignored in recent years.

Also the notion that Paul alone led the bands descent into psychedelia is complete bulllshit

To us Beatles fans, Paul’s contributions are obvious. But when you think of how Paul’s legacy has been haunted by John’s (in various ways but esp with John on a pedestal) (and as for psychedelia, how many hippie shops are full of Lennon imagery?), it makes me happy to see the recognition he deserves.

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Happy birthday you beautiful bastard in the best possible way

Happy Birthday John Lennon

October 9, 1940