i stan legends

"[I use] pencil and paper. I’m not a typist. Funnily enough, John became a red-hot typist towards the end of his life. He had always had this “Arts Correspondent in Kowloon” kind of dream. But for me it’s pencil and paper." (2001)

"He might have become a novelist. That's something he wanted to do." (1989)

cast for Hamburg Days!!!!

A young boy holding a baby in a Liverpool street, photo by John Chillingworth

‘I decided I’d get a Lamborghini. I’m not exactly sure when, but it was towards the end of the ’60s. January ’68 sounds about right. It was red, I liked it, a flash motor. I went everywhere in it.

‘My main recollection is of breaking down in Soho, on one of those long streets leading down to Wardour Street. I’m tooling along and she breaks down, conks out… So, I’m on my own, out of the car, pushing it in broad daylight down the street, and I can hear the workmen: “Nice car, Paul! Bit of trouble?” Taking the piss something rotten, you know, but I suppose I deserved it.’

Paul McCartney, Many Years From Now by Barry Miles. 1997 (pg.151).

For context: Paul is talking about their song I’ll Get You.

Paul saying f@ggy caught me off guard, I just had to share it. Also, Paul’s comment reminds me of this outtake of Two of Us

John: It's like were a couple of queens

Paul: Yeah well y'know. Well, I mean that's....