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"fuck you john. and fuck everyone else too for never agreeing with my cool ideas. luckily i agree with MYSELF"

"why did you play all the instruments yourse-" "BECAUSE I CAN."

completely random uncalled for ringo diss. like he was PISSED

he was so real for this one tbh. Say That!

"and for the record i'm never setting foot in an office ever again. fuck off"

I've come to ask you about the increasing number of people referring to us as lesbians. What d'you think about this?

I find it quite amusing.

- @ask-linda-louise-mccartney

Paul: You gotta remember, you know, we grew up, we were kids together. Howard: Your father, by the way, did not want you hanging around with John Lennon. Paul: Uhh, he didn't mind, he didn't mind John, you know... Howard: Didn't he say that John was a bad influence and you almost had to sneak out and meet with John when you guys were young kids? Paul: Well, almost*, you know, but by the time I met John, uhh, I had a little say in the matter. Howard: I think your father was right. You should have stayed away from him. Really, very upsetting guy.

It's funny how Paul has always been hesitant to admit that his father didn't like John and that he had to sneak around to meet him, or even that they would meet in his house while Jim was away. And Paul didn't really have that much say in the matter for quite some time, given how Jim made a rule that Paul couldn't be alone in the house with John. (And btw, what's up with the "almost" *? He either sneaked out to meet him or he didn't, lol. There is no "almost".)

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“What were the Beatles really like? She’s asked this every day. “Very irreverent, very flirty,” she says, “just like my own boys growing up. That John Lennon was a very naughty boy. He preferred men. He was very shy with women, you know, trying to get confidence in himself with that naughty schoolboy humour, that catch-the-girl, kiss-the-girl thing. If you came on as a siren, he’d run a mile.””

I didn't mention this in the book, but from time to time John would say to me, "What do you think Paul is thinking right now?" I'd say, "John, I've only met the man a couple of times in my life. You know, I've never had any in-depth conversations with him. I have no idea, dude."

Then John would ask, "Do you think he thinks about me at all?" That question always made me sad, and my knee-jerk response was, "I'm sure he does. I'm sure he does." Then he would move on. But I think that his curiosity about Paul McCartney, I'm not going to call it an obsession, was always present.

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also, what was ringo's experience with lsd? i only ever hear about john and george

He didn't comment publicly on it (ofc neither did Paul until 1997, years after John's death). But he might be referring to it in the song I Know (I Know) from the 1973 album Mind Games, where he sings "And I know it's getting better all the time / As we share in each other's minds". The song has already, by this point, had a musical reference to Paul's 1969 Beatles song I've Got A Feeling; a reference to "yesterday"; and then this line. "Getting better all the time" is the refrain in the song Getting Better from Sgt Pepper, so it's possible that "share in each other's minds" refers to the LSD night, which occurred in March 1967 while the band was working on Sgt Pepper. Obviously that's speculative and can't be conclusively proven, but I think it's certainly possible.

For the past year or so, @st-johns-wood and I (as well as other great volunteers) have been working on the McLennon Files Archive, a collection of material relating to John and Paul's relationship, stored for posterity on the Internet Archive. The project is intended to have all this material in one secure place, as it can be hard to find on Tumblr and doesn't always have the right dates or attributions. We've recently passed a milestone of 600 items on this archive, and to celebrate @st-johns-wood had the idea of making a quiz! All answers can be found by searching on the archive - why don't you test your McLennon knowledge and get to know the archive!

Tips: There are many ways to find material on the archive - you can filter content by year, creator, subject term, type of material etc - more detailed tips on searching here. You can also use the search bar at the top of the collection - most significant terms will come up in object descriptions.

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This is some concept art of the protagonist of my project, Greysuits!

Greysuits is a slice of life/mob story set in 1975, which focuses on the lifes and relationships of a group of repressed individuals trying to get by in the broken streets of New York.

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