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The fag of the day is Paul McCartney!

Sorry for getting all worked up, I saw a post vilifying the man and it made me mad.

Exactly. Which is why I get somewhat annoyed whenever I read claims that Paul is just waiting for Yoko to die, or that he has some secret confession prepared to be released after his own death so people will finally know "the truth." I don't really see any reason why Paul would want to reveal a secret relationship between himself and John. I don't think he sees any point in doing that. He's said many times that he's a very private person, and as you said, he owes us nothing. The man is clearly uncomfortable sharing deeply personal details about himself, and especially so when it comes to something that has to do with him and John. This is someone who, for example, is always hesitant to admit that a song is about John, even if the song is not romantic at all. Other than Dear Friend and Here Today, he rarely identifies songs as being about him, and even those admissions took some effort. The first time he was asked about Dear Friend, he said "it's just about a dear friend, whatever it means to you", and "I don't write anything consiously", when someone suggested that it could be about John. He once said about Here Today: "I could always deny it was about him. Burn the tapes." He doesn't even want to talk about the first time he really met John, much less the last time he saw him. And there are far more details about their relationship that he clearly wants to keep to hismelf, not for public consumption. What Paul seems to want people to know is simply that they loved each other deeply. Beyond that, he has repeatedly said that whenever he has something important to say, he puts it into a song. That's always been the way he feels most comfortable expressing personal truths about his life. He's said some version of that countless times over the years.

The fag of the day is Paul McCartney!

The fag of the day is Paul McCartney!

Completely unedited thought dump mostly so I can remember as much as possible (I’m v tired so I’m gonna apologise for the typos before I even make them)

The most important info first: paul was in his usual hoodie and shirt combo which is NOT snazzy BUT he was wearing some snazzy socks and MOST importantly they were Wings socks

Second most important info: it was Rob fucking Brydon interviewing him which is so funny to me and honestly he was a great choice! Paul seemed pretty relaxed and even though it was all the same stories we’ve heard during the other interviews etc for the album, it was lovely to be in the same room while he told them and Rob managed get his silly side out as well

Because it was Rob Brydon (do I need to do a cultural explainer on Rob for non-brits? is he known elsewhere?) they had a bet on how many impressions Rob would do which ended up including Paul himself, Ringo, Ronnie Corbett (obvs) and Michael Cain (also obvs) all of which seemed to delight Paul

There was also a sweet moment where Rob was saying that people doing impressions of paul are doing it because they love him so much and that made the whole crowd erupt and Paul seemed genuinely touched and grateful and took a moment to formulate a reply 😭

He suggested at one point Rob had been watching porn

To the question ‘how do you put people are ease’ he answered ‘drugs’

Quite a few Nancy stories!!! I actually wanna hang out with her so bad

During the first song Rob had a moment of realisation that he and Paul were just gonna have to sit opposite each other while the songs played and he definitely didn’t know what to do with himself lmao

Paul really got into though and was doing that classic Paul wiggle and pretending to play the instruments

Paul just kept answering ‘I don’t know’ to most questions about how he writes songs, puts then together etc which made me giggle and tbh I believe him I do think he might just be magic

Hearing the album in such a great space just made me love it even more 😭

The first star of the night section was probably my fave bc I’d had a bit of stressful morning, but then from the moment I arrived in the queue I had such an amazing time and everyone was so friendly (shout out to Stephen who I spoke to for about 90mins in the queue and I really think I was supposed to meet him today 😭) ANYWAY my point was that being there with all the paul fans just made me feel so so happy and I wouldn’t have missed it for the world and then they played first star and I just had a little cry because yeah. things are gonna be alright man.

Paul also joked that just playing the records and having a sit down might be the way forward lmao

He did play that weird chord at the start of as you lie there AND the opening of life can be hard on his guitar!!! And got a big cheer obviously

I feel like I’m forgetting things already 😩

Oh before playing Come Inside Paul’s only explanation was ‘it’s a banger’ and then said ‘So this is come inside…. And please do’. ok paul!

Overall it was just so special and went by SO quick and I wanna do it again right now but a version where it’s just me and paul and I can ask him whatever I like and he tells me everything

Okay I’m gonna sleep and hopefully not miss my stop good night

Oh please send me questions if you wanna know anything else!!!!

ALERT 🚨 BEAUTIFUL FANFICTION THAT WOULD GO SO WELL WITH YOUR STYLE

(idk if you've seen all of us strangers but just a warning it's quite sad) (and horny)

ヽ(•̀ω•́ )ゝ thank you for the alert! i have not seen all of us strangers, but i will put it on my list for when i want to be quite sad (and horny) ( • ̀ω ⁃᷄)✧

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