Why do you fight this feeling in your heart?

When the Beatles split Lennon used [Yesterday] to chastise his former partner in the lacerating ‘How Do You Sleep?’ “I felt deep pain,” McCartney says now. “Stick it in the jugular, why don’t you, John. The funny thing is later I heard that he didn’t write that line, that John, Allen Klein and Yoko were sitting round together and someone came up with that line. But it was very painful, a bad period, there was a lot of deep messages in all the stuff we did then. I was really writing a lot of songs to John. Then I got this great story, in one of the last interviews John did, where he said this guy brought him a copy of ‘Coming Up’ and he was, like, ‘Bloody hell, Paul’s on to something – better go back to work.’ You better believe I love that story.”

While in Almeria, John was visited by Juan Carrión Ganán, a forty-one year old teacher of English from Cartagena who regularly used Beatles lyrics in his lessons for university students. Since first hearing ‘Love Me Do’ on Radio Luxemburg he had painstakingly written out the words to each song. However, the Beatles had recently been using less familiar language, and his notebooks were showing more gaps, guesses and question marks.  Hearing that John was in the country filming, he determined to meet him and to ask him to clarify the words of the songs. He took the bus from Cartagena to Almeria and managed to find John on the beach playing a ball game with Michael Crawford and showed him his notebook and those of his students. John graciously filled in the spaces and corrected words that he’d misheard. For the lyrics to ‘Yellow Submarine’ John took appropriately coloured pens to inscribe the words ‘Yellow’, ‘blue’ and 'green’. For 'Eleanor Rigby’ be wrote out key lines in red pen and underlined words such as 'dirt; and 'darning’ that Ganán had been unable to distinguish. In an asterisked footnote he explained that the 'jar’ kept by the door was a 'pot’. He said he thought it was a great idea to teach the English language through the songs of the Beatles and autographed the notebook to Ganán with the message 'Good luck with the English’.

Hey guys! As you might’ve seen on the news, or on the rest of the internet, or maybe even on a post or two on here, my home country of Venezuela is going through a LOT right now, from an incredibly corrupt government to daily riots that often result in the deaths of innocent people who are just fighting for freedom to the fact that people can’t even get common necessities like toilet paper and food, Venezuelans are in a very tough situation right now.

Fifteen people died in riots yesterday (July 30, 207) alone. People are literally starving to death, not because they don’t have any money, but because there simply isn’t any food in supermarkets across the country. The shelves are completely bare - no food, no water, no toilet paper, no nothing.

#listen I’m Colombian and the horror stories we hear about what’s going on at the border chill me to the bone#please do whatever you can to help Venezuela

Venezuelan crisis explained