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"More than anyone else, John had been his friend for ten years, to say nothing of his collaborator, his sidekick, his shadow. Not only had they played music together, they'd hung out together, dreamed together, fucked together, become famous together."(Bob Spitz,The Beatles biography)

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Paul Du Noyer on interviewing McCartney:

"And now, in 2001, when the promotional agenda has switched back to Wings, you almost have to coax him off the subject of John Lennon. Is it just force of habit, or maybe the need to exorcise some kind of long-nosed, bespectacled, sharp-tongued ghost inside his head?"(2001)

"The world's most famous living Liverpudlian has grown more open about the world's most famous dead Liverpudlian. Unbidden references to John Lennon occur in almost every interview I've done with Paul McCartney. It's clear their complex partnership still stalks the halls of his memory. I sit with Paul as he completes a questionnaire for MOJO magazine's All-Time Heroes issue, in 2001:

Who is your hero? John Lennon. When did this person first have an impact on you? At Woolton Village Fête in the year of Our Lord Whatever. What is it that you admire in them? Massive talent, great wit, courage and humour. Have they had an influence upon you? Very much so. Have they ever disappointed you or has your admiration ever faded? Yeah, from time to time, when we were having a barney. But only infrequently.

-Paul Du Noyer (Book: Conversations with McCartney, 2016)

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"Paul already knew John Lennon by sight; with homes only a quarter of a mile apart, they could hardly miss each other [..] 'This Ted would get on the bus,' Paul was later to remember. 'I wouldn't stare at him too hard in case he hit me.' But now [at the church fete] at last Paul could inspect the tough guy of the 86 bus at leisure without fear of reprisals.

-Paul Mccartney: The Life, by Philip Norman

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"Was John gay? A question mark has been set against his sexuality. Pauline Sutcliffe has suggested John had a love affair of sorts with her brother, Stuart; while John's school friend Pete Shotton has affirmed that John told him he'd had sexual contact with Brian Epstein in Spain. [...] This is only relevant in as much as what stock Paul McCartney puts in such stories about his best friend and, on balance, he rejects suggestions John was homosexual, not least because he and John spent countless nights together in hotels on the road, 'and there was never any hint that he was gay'. Certainly the suggestion has never been made about McCartney himself."

Fab : An Intimate Life of Paul McCartney, by Howard Sounes

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Giles Martin on John and Paul:

"Paul and John kind of knew that they were growing apart, and Let It Be was almost like a marriage that’s failing, and they wanna go on their date nights again".

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Those John and Paul moments ... again … now as a video montage bc I’m obsessed

(Ready, Steady, Go rehearsals, 1963, full video here)

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Q: I always found it interesting that John got married a month after you.

Paul: I think we spurred each other into marriage. They were very strong together which left me out of the picture, so then I got together with Linda and we got our own kind of strength. I think again that they were a little bit peeved that we got married first. (October, 1986)

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Love goes both ways

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“I’ve never been the kind to go down to the pub with my buddies. John was really my only male friend, if only because of proximity." -Paul (FAME magazine, 1990)

Your "only male friend?" WTF

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Paul on the photos he took of John and George

"My favorite photos are of John and George. There’s a huge sentimental aspect to them. John was a great character. A very different kind of guy to the other boys I knew. We met at the village fete. He was playing with his band. He was a year and a half older than me [and] my first friend who wore glasses. He was always taking them off and polishing them. I found it fascinating." -Paul (2024)

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"I just feel blessed to have known him and to have experienced his presence so intimately." -Paul (2009)

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"They were intensely close. And Paul would do almost anything for John".

George Martin, With a little help from my friends : The making of Sgt. Pepper (1994)

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from Philip Norman's book, Paul Mccartney: The Life (2016)

It's always funny how authors mention this incident but don't try at all to analyze the implications of it.

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"We were a bit tired so we checked into a little hotel for the night. Of course it was too nice a bed after having hitchhiked so we said: “We’ll stay a bit longer”.” -Paul

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"If you go to a party and the husband and wife have been having a row - there's a tension, an atmosphere. And you wonder whether you are making things worse by being there. I think that was kind of the situation we found with Ringo. He was probably feeling a little bit odd because of the mental strangeness with John and Yoko and Paul." -George Martin

(Source: The Beatles, Anthology, 1995)

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Q: What’s your favourite part of the ‘Now and Then’ music video? 

Paul: John goofing around!

Source: https://www.paulmccartney.com/news/you-gave-me-the-answer-23-questions-for-2023

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"I can still see John now: checked shirt, slightly curly hair...I remember thinking, ‘He looks good – I wouldn’t mind being in a group with him’." -Paul