#paul/robert fraser

[beatleskinkmeme]

1970s - a recently divorced paul mccartney travels to nyc with robert fraser and they just keep running into john and yoko. john is confused/paranoid/jealous about paul's relationship with fraser.

Filled Here

[crepesuzette2023]

This reminds me of that picture of Robert Mapplethorpe, which he sent to Sam Wagstaff...Sprites of all places and times, unite...

...and speaking of Paul and Mapplethorpe and Sam Wagstaff and Fire Island in the 70's:

Today, and every day, is a good day to read Coast Starlight (Paul/Robert Fraser in 1974, by the brilliant bookofapril). One of the best things I ever read in my life; no, I'm not exaggerating. If the world lets me down, if I let myself down, if cynicism is ashing its cigar all over my mind, this is the nugget of beauty I go back to. Read it! :-)

3/23/2025

Our fag today is Paul McCartney!

[javelinbk]

On this day in 1969, Paul McCartney tortured two men at once

Paul McCartney, Denis O'Dell and Robert Fraser during recording sessions for Let It Be, 23rd January 1969

Paul flirting with Denis O’Dell, trousers unbuttoned (so he doesn’t ’scratch his guitar’), arse in the air, while Robert Fraser waits patiently for them to ‘go home’, Paul making it up to him with a hand on his arm…

Sounds about right

[the-jovial-jester]

✨️The beatles incorrect texts ✨️

[hermajestythesun]

i think the beatles fandom needs to look into the role of robert fraser more. his closeness with paul? their secret trips? paul and john encountering yoko at his gallery before john started dating her? robert’s role in the development on sgt. pepper? i highkey think that john might have been jealous of paul’s *connection* with robert in a way that impacted john’s relationship with paul more than we may think…

[paulandjohn]

“Because he was gay, it raised a few small-minded eyebrows and funnily enough, one or two of them were from within the Beatles: ‘Hey, man, he’s gay, what you going off to Paris with him for? They’re gonna talk, you know. Tongues are going to wag.’ I said, ‘I know tongues are going to wag, but tough shit.”

Paul about the reactions from other people, in regards to his trip to Paris with Robert.

[torchlitinthedesert]

Dusty quickly realized that people were phoning to say goodbye and she was unable to deal with this, although she constantly spoke with Linda McCartney who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1995. She put Dusty in touch with her own American consultant, who agreed with the treatment Dusty was receiving from The Royal Marsden. Linda was a huge support, sending her flowers and gifts each week, but no-one knew just how ill Linda was. Her death on 17 April 1998 devastated Dusty because she never believed her friend’s cancer to be terminal. After all, she had beaten it before, why couldn’t Linda? Paul took over from his late wife by phoning and sending gifts.

Sharon Davies, Dusty: an intimate biography of Dusty Springfield, 2008

[strwbryfeels]

[olympain]

Let’s do it together, okay?

[iamnotthere-idonotdie]

thursday, october 31st

the batman (2022)

[franklyimissparis]

endless love for his gay little moustache

[beatleskinkmeme]

1967 robert fraser kisses a drunk paul mccartney at a party ,john sees and gets angry ,jealous and insecure. "who do you love more?"

.

[ljblueteak]

Robert Fraser’s interview with Peter Brown and Steven Gaines, All You Need is Love

Some highlights:

Robert Fraser: Peter Asher was Jane’s brother. I think he brought Paul over to my place. He made me sorry because he saw a sculpture in my apartment and said, “I want that.” It was quite a lot of money for those days, it was like 2,500 quid. Paul never asked the price until he decided to buy something. If he liked it, he wanted it.

Steven Gaines: I guess they didn’t have to think about the price

Robert Fraser: No, but most people, even if they don’t have to think about it, they want to know the price. Paul was very, very open-minded, but he was also more…Well, John was too, but I mean John was sort of very difficult to…He was more difficult to…He was very shy in a way, and it comes out in an aggressive way.

Steven Gaines: It’s an odd decision Paul made to live at his girlfriend’s home with her parents.

Robert Fraser: Paul was a very domestic sort of personality. He liked the idea.

Peter Brown: I didn’t think twice about it, but looking back on it now, it was pretty ahead of its time to move in with your girlfriend’s family.

Robert Fraser: Even now, he’s done exactly what he wants. He’s not really like…He never really lived a rock star’s life.

[solmelo]

❝ The thing I remember is his smell, after coming out of jail. He smelled like he’d been in jail. Scrubbed with carbolic soap or something — his clothes smelled. It put me off going to jail in a big way, that you’d smell jail. It was only for a couple of days. ❞

—Paul McCartney on Robert Fraser

[undying-love]

"With Robert [Fraser]’s thing of course there would be gayness. But there was no open gayness. If there was to be gayness it would be a quiet phone call that Robert would go and take in the bedroom or something. That was one of the good things, actually, because I knew he was gay and he knew I wasn’t gay so we were quite safe in our own sexuality. We could talk to each other. " -Paul (1997)