the other me

Not to make everyone’s day, but the caption is correct. The photos were taken by Harry Benson, but owned by John. They were put up for auction along with two others, one of George, and this:

Bartolomeo Tromboncino (c. 1470-c. 1535) - Ostinato vo seguire

Somebody spoke (on the radio)

and Paul went into a dream (about alternative 1966)

Paul arrived to rehearse show

5+1 = 6 - haha, it's silly, I know - but it's '66 again

When Paul's singing at the BBC Eleanor Rigby - the song what won the Grammy Award in 1966 - he's fallining from dream Summer'66 into another 1966 dream - Eleanor's dream.

It's like Good Day Sunshine (first) and 1966 (then) are All in the Golden Afternoon, and Paul's falling through them deeper and deeper into his mind - like Alice into the rabbit-hole

And where he's asking about all the lonely people (before he falls deeper)?

Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall

Look :)

A lovely sunny summer day. Once again, I was out at John’s house in Weybridge. <…> Around that time there was quite a spate of summer songs. ‘Daydream’ and ‘Summer in the City’ by The Lovin’ Spoonful, The Kinks’ ‘Sunny Afternoon’ – I think all those came out during the same year, 1966. We wanted to write something sunny. Both John and I had grown up while the music hall tradition was still very vibrant, so it was always in the back of our minds. There are lots of songs about the sun, and they make you happy: ‘The Sun Has Got His Hat On’ or ‘On the Sunny Side of the Street’. It was now time for us to do ours. So we’ve got love and sun, what more do we want? ‘We take a walk, the sun is shining down / Burns my feet as they touch the ground’ – that was a nice memory of summer. ‘Then we’d lie beneath a shady tree / I love her and she’s loving me’. It’s really a very happy song.

(Paul McCartney about Good Day Sunshine (1966), The Lyrics, 2021)

also

Lying in the sun again I want to feel your touch

and

Period-/Fantasyfilms + dancing

MARIE ANTOINETTE (2006)

CRIMSON PEAK (2015)

LITTLE WOMEN (1994)

KAMA SUTRA: A TALE OF LOVE (1996)

THE UGLY STEPSISTER (2025)

EXCALIBUR (1981)

ANNA KARENINA (2012)

SINNERS (2025)

LEGEND (1985)

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (2004)

EMMA (2020)

Period-/Fantasyfilms + dancing (part 2)

A KNIGHT'S TALE (2001)

A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN (1992)

MERMAIDS (1990)

MOULIN ROUGE! (2001)

SUCKER PUNCH (2011)

THE FALL (2006)

CINDERELLA (2015)

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (1993)

FRANKENSTEIN (2025)

MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA (2005)

OPHELIA (2018)

MR. MALCOLM'S LIST (2022)

TELL IT TO THE BEES (2018)

Paul McCartney by Gordon Hunter, Campbeltown, Argyll