Paul McCartney at the Factory Club in West Hollywood during his Dirty Weekend in June of 1968. (Source)
From a Wikipedia article about the Factory Club:
Studio One, currently known as The Factory, is an LGBT nightclub in West Hollywood, California. The Studio One building was originally owned by William Fox (producer) and was used as a Norden bombsite facility during World War I. In 1968 the building was bought and transformed into The Factory nightclub, named after the furniture manufacturing business in the lower floor of the building. The Factory became a popular 1960s-style discothèque that was frequented by Hollywood celebrities, but it only lasted a few years. Studio One was founded on the same site in the early 1970s by part-owner Scott Forbes, a Boston optometrist. The club was popular throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Throughout its history, the club has been associated with the gay rights movement. Many celebrities graced the club either as guests or performers, especially during the late 1970s and most of the 1980s. Photos of those people were displayed in the hallway between the disco and cabaret.
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starting this blog off on a positive note because when i deep dived & found out this was real i was floored because it does genuinely sound like fanfiction but...
"did paul mccartney really have cats named pyramus & thisbe after the lovers him and john played?"
and let's go to a read more for the source/deep dive!
so this is one that floats around a lot un-sourced. in fact, when doing this deep dive, i found quite a few fan forums INSISTING it was fake because they only ever see mclennon shippers saying it. but lo and behold........
in this interview from Animals' Agenda, 1999:
P: Oh, I’d love to tell you about the animals. I personally never had a pet growing up, because my mom and dad both worked. And even the day we saw free puppies going and my brother and I thought, “Definite, we’ll get one,” we couldn’t have one. So my first pet was when I was living alone as one of the Beatles and I got an Old English sheepdog called Martha, and I loved her dearly, she was beautiful, she was really good for me; we were good for each other. I remember John Lennon coming ’round and saying, “God, I’ve never seen you with an animal before.” I was being so affectionate it took him aback, he’d not seen that side of my character. Because you don’t do that with humans-not as obviously anyway.
And then I had two cats called Pyramus and Thisbe, which showed my literate bent, and then I had three-they all had to be cool names, of course-that were called Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. And then as a family, Linda and I, after Martha died, we then got another Old English sheepdog and we eventually had a litter by the one after her. We kept two of the puppies, so that meant we’ve got three now. I have four dogs at home, three English sheepdogs and Stella’s dog, the mutt. She’d hate me to say that!
(source)
now... did he gift john pyramus?
i can't find a source on that one that isn't a mclennon blog/forum. however there's just not enough to prove it one way or the other & it's not out of the realm of possibility that he would've given pyramus to john, especially since there don't seem to be any photos of paul & pyramus even though he mentions the cat as one that he owned. also, i do feel like i've seen some quote from john where he just casually mentions the cat by name floating around? but i can't find it, so if anyone wants to add it, go ahead! for now, that part of this is getting rated....
From left to right: The Beatles (John Lennon, Ringo Starr, George Harrison, Paul McCartney), Gerry & The Pacemakers (Gerry Marsden, Freddie Marsden, Les Chadwick, Les McGuire), Brian Epstein, Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas (Robin McDonald, Mike Maxfield, Billy J Kramer, Ray Jones and Tony Mansfield).
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Beatle historians help!! Does anyone know off the top of their head what interview(s) it is where John’s talking about how if he were to have sex with a man, he’d have to be in love with him first / they’d need to have a very solid connection and intellectual bond / he talks about his “checklist” for a male partner and how he never found anyone that fit the bill, so to speak?? This would either be from the mid 70s or closer to 1980.
Similarly, there’s an interview with Yoko where she alludes to John saying something similar, and I feel like sometime around 1980 we have John talking about how before he began his relationship with May / just before the Lost Weekend began, there was discussion between him and Yoko about whether he should explore a relationship with a man or woman, and that he tried to convince Yoko that it would perhaps be easier for her if he were to pursue a man for the time being??
Anyways I’ve been looking for the quotes for about 20 minutes now after hearing them quoted in the AKOM podcast and I know I’ve seen the sources on here before but I’m having trouble locating them so figured I’d make a post lol
Putting these in a reblog as I can't put pictures in a comment. Quotes from Yoko (quoting John at the time of the Lost Weekend) in Philip Norman 2008 biography of John
Also, a quote from Yoko in an interview with The Daily Beast, October 2015:
"I think he had a desire to [have sex with men] but I think he was too inhibited,” says Ono. [...] “No, not inhibited. He said, ʻI donʼt mind if thereʼs an incredibly attractive guy.ʼ Itʼs very difficult: They would have to be not just physically attractive, but mentally very advanced too. And you canʼt find people like that.”
are there any photos with all the known lovers Brian had?
We don't have any (confirmed) photos of Brian with any of his partners himself, but we do have photos of them individually.
Joe Flannery was Brian's boyfriend in 1962 and was also a booking manager for the Beatles for a year.
According to Flannery, Brian had a one night stand with Little Richard in 1962 (Little Richard might have even alluded to it in conversation with Philip Norman).
Peter "Bette" Bourne was Brian's boyfriend in 1964 for two months; John apparently wasn't a huge fan of him.
Do we count John Lennon? We can count John Lennon. (In which case we obviously have many photos of Brian and John together; this is from shortly after Barcelona.)
And then there's Diz. This photo might be of him and Brian (as one of only three people to have seen a confirmed photo of Diz, albeit in old age, there is some resemblance in my opinion).
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