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John Lennon & Paul McCartney at Brian Epstein's house Kingsley Hill in Warbleton, England | 28 May 1967

16 year old paul mccartney was like john do you think we should get this song i wrote about how i would do anything in the world for you despite how my feelings put me in danger recorded? as our first recorded song ever? and 17 year old john lennon looked into his big wide cow eyes and was like yeah...but i'm gonna sing it

Can we talk about this?

PAUL MCCARTNEY in conversation with Paul Mescal, May 2026.

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to the few people who said “this except rpf”: sorry this isn’t about you. this post is for real rpfers only and if you can’t get behind that then you aren’t invited to the BDY summer plans

this is diabolical on so many levels. sucking face in front of the man that is singing the song he wrote about you and then turning to him, and only him, to immediately justify why because you're still one part of a codependent permanent homoerotic quantum entangled soul bond. paul is trying so hard to be cool but immediately launches into the song only to realize john has used the song to sing about the new person he loves and stops singing mid-sentence. i would kms. heartbreak hard launch singing strawberry fields forever over a bed of newspapers proclaiming john and yoko's love, whilst staring forlornly at john and singing the song paul would later go on to say is quintessential john. they were doing tragedy like no one else

19 year old paul mccartney sitting across john lennon who's about to turn 21 in a cafe in the left bank of seine river in paris, sipping on wine they bought with john's money. george is back home pissed off as hell because they cancelled their booked shows. stuart is flabbergasted because he thinks the two of them leaving without saying a word means the band is over. but paul's just doodling his and john and their band's name on a piece of paper again and again and again because he's in love with the idea of them and their future. don't worry, everything will go well, then everything will go terrible, and paul will write a song about this almost twenty years later.

Artwork: La toile de Pénélope, 1958. Oil on canvas. 24.6 × 14.8 cm. René Magritte