and now, ladies and gentlemen… the bottles!

“Ringo talked about his first face-to-face meeting with Paul in many months, on a plane, on the way to Mick Jagger’s wedding [in May], and then said, “I love Paul, you know. I really do,” and for a moment, all the neatly printed legal statements I’d pored over, so formal, signed by all the Beatles, one against another, and entered in evidence in the English High Court, numbering the reasons the partnership should or should not be dissolved, seemed strange and distant. Even Klein, in Western gear, a prop holster and six-gun on his waist, the toughest, fastest wheeler-dealer in town, any town, sat there stuttering a moment when Ringo was finished. The drummer’s eyes were moist.”

for @pickledbeatles

“Paul is asked what he’ll do when the bubble bursts. He explains he and John will write songs for other artists…Paul predicts he and John will outlast the Beatles as a team. When they’re done performing, he and John will hover behind the scenes, giving their music away to younger people. In so many ways, this is exactly what happened.”

Dear John,

Don’t be hard on yourself, give yourself a break

Life wasn’t meant to be run

The race is over, you won

But love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard, or just think it’s gonna get on with itself. You gotta keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it, and be careful of it. 

Steve Lukather being interviewed on TARATATA, 1995 (looking so unbelievably PRETTY) - part two