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Happy 75th birthday, Sir James Paul McCartney!  18 June 1942

The Beatles gather round the piano

I seriously don’t get most of the fandom. I was talking with a friend about it earlier, and seriously. Some people raise rockstars on pedestals. THEY AREN’T SAINTS!!! Heck, the person I admire the most in rock (and in general) was an asshole at times and screwed up repeatedly, George Harrison and Pete Townshend were substance abusers, and even Brian May ended up cheating (he’s still a wonderful human being though). People need to realise that rockstars aren’t perfect! If someone says that, I will correct the info! And then, the others. The people who drag them through the mud. The most recurrent victims of this are Jimmy Page, Keith Moon, and Brian Jones. All three screwed up, repeatedly. Two of them died because of it, while the other managed to get outta trouble. I could spend paragraphs criticising them, as I said they messed up. And yet I always defend them when slanderers attack with their usual insults, because two of them were so badly hurt that anyone who drags them through the mud like that is an asshat, and the other is a fighter and I admire him for that. Bottom line, PEOPLE ARE MORALLY GREY. 999 out of 1000 people are morally grey. And the fandom needs to realise that

From Vice column ‘Musical Urban Legends’: The Who in ‘A Painful Decision’ by Peter Bagge

I know someone found it already but here’s a decent sized version just in case.

Jimmy Page

Led Zeppelin - The Battle of Evermore

“Politicians hide themselves away They only started the war Why should they go out to fight? They leave that role to the poor, yeah!”

Girl - The Beatles (Rubber Soul, 1965)

Led Zeppelin - The Rover