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John Lennon & Paul McCartney photographed taking Martha for a walk in London, April 13, 1967.

"I got Martha and she was a lovely little dog. I just adored her. One of the unlikely side effects was that John became very sympathetic towards me. When he came round and saw me playing with Martha, I could tell that he liked her. John was a very guarded person, which was partly where all his wit came from…Seeing me with Martha, with my guard down, all of a sudden he started warming to me. And so he let his guard down too." (Paul McCartney, Many Years From Now)

#a core 'wtf paul' quote for me #john 'started warming up to you' ten years into your friendship?!?#like you were just coworkers for all that time and then the puppy showed up #and then your relationship imploded a year later?#oh how I wish we had john's perspective on this

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nemperor

John and Brian became very interested in each other. But not in any sordid way. That makes me sick to hear anything like that. What people don't realise and only I know is that Brian and John both had a great love of art. They would talk for hours on end about art and paintings, and would go to the galleries together. Brian was an intellectual, and I think John found someone he could talk about things to on the same level.

Mimi Smith via John Lennon by Philip Norman

#the denial #the low-key bitchy classism #brian was an intellectual unlike that other riff-raff john hung out with #never change mimi

Having a real "Paul McCartney c. January 1969" month at work here. Might need to find some scaffolding to climb so the horrors don't consume me.

idontwanttospoiltheparty

opened twitter, they're stealing my talking points

#I honestly just think he meant he didn't want to talk about john's affairs where cynthia might read it #but it is funny to think about paul refusing to give yoko the satisfaction of knowing she was right

tangleduplnblue

Happy 86th birthday, sir Ringo Starr! ✌️♥️

#happy ringo day #beatle birthdays

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Happy July 6th, here are my favourite JohnandPaul pics (no cut we scroll like men)

losing it

PATTIE AT THE WEDDING YAYYYY

#I think I'm more interested in the seating chart for this event than in the wedding dress #imagining pattie chatting with patrick mahomes and lana del rey

TCM's lineup for the 4th of July: 1776, Yankee Doodle Dandy, a bunch of other Americana themed movies, and... A Hard Day's Night? Are they trying to fit the British Invasion in under some kind of Revolutionary War theme?

#I guess we did win custody of Ringo and John in the end #and at least half-custody of Paul #even George had a house in Hawaii

the-boney-rolls

john saying that the clues in glass onion were making fun of people who read into the lyrics is actually some evil genius shit. because people love to take the word of john lennon as gospel and will forever more use that as solid gold proof that there's nothing to read into the lyrics and if you even hint that you're doing that you're crazy! well played, john lennon. protecting your secret gay code from 60 years in the past.

#I do think john was trolling/being deliberately mischievous with some of this stuff #annoyed by stupid people assuming they knew what his songs meant #writing songs that were 90% inside jokes so that those people would be frustrated #and if you figured it out he'd have plausible deniability to gaslight you #wanting to be known and not wanting to be known simultaneously

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motherlennon

PAUL MCCARTNEY + fatherhood

#aw lovely

pennielane

They were so tight it was like there was a telepathy between them…they’d look at each other and know instinctively what the other was thinking.

#the not-quite-matching green henleys #john smiling #paul in sync with him but not meeting his eyes #yoko with the possessive touch #it was all ending but not because their connection wasn't still there

adriennefrombrooklyn

all my life's an open book come inside my mind

Happy Birthday Paul McCartney

[June 18th, 1942]

#happy 84th!#beatle birthdays

idontwanttospoiltheparty

Happy Birthday, Paul McCartney! [18.06.1942]

It was just after mother's death that it started. It became an obsession. It took over his whole life. You lose a mother – and you find a guitar? I don't know. Perhaps it just came along at that time and became an escape. But an escape from what? — Mike McCartney, quoted in The Beatles (1968) by Hunter Davies.

#beatle birthdays

idontwanttospoiltheparty

"And anytime you feel the pain, hey Jude, refrain" as in "you should bury your pain way down deep where no one can see it, because no one wants to deal with your issues" but ALSO "And anytime you feel the pain, hey Jude, refrain" as in "you should sing a refrain to ease your pain because it will help, I promise"

#hey jude is the ultimate paul song for several reasons #and the way he frames everything in terms of songs and music (and musical puns) is one of them

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If I can be excused for Bob Dylan posting for a moment, I loved his answers to the NYT article asking what the best and worst things about being 80 were:

The best thing

The best thing about being 80 is that you outlive the clocks that have been chasing you. It’s freedom from that lie that anything was ever under control. You don’t chase the parade anymore. You’re an old king from some vanished country. You’re harder to program. You’re not rushing to become anything and you’re not haunted by things that you did. You’re haunted by how little of it really mattered in the way you thought it would.

The worst thing

The worst thing about being 80 is that you still want to say yes to everything, but the world moves without asking. The old fire in your heart still tells you to do this and that, but your body says we already did it. Also, nothing surprises you. It sounds like a luxury but it’s not, and also you’ve run out of illusions. People treat you like either you’ve solved something or you’ve lost something, and you haven’t. You see life repeating itself everywhere.

The really worst part about being 80 is that you find, at last, you’ve got an understanding of something that might have altered everything in the past, had it come at a time when something could still be altered. When you’re young you think that time moves forward. At 80 you know that it doesn’t, it stands still. We’re the ones that move.

#especially love 'you're an old king from some vanished country'#and naturally it got me thinking about which parts paul mccartney would or would not agree with #because I think he is still chasing the parade to some extent and always will be #that's just who he is and part of what's made him so successful

i-am-the-oyster

I wonder if the bicycle bells at the end of You Never Give Me Your Money are a reference to Paul’s paper round

i-am-the-oyster

Wait, bicycle bells and frog noises??

ohblahdo

I always think of the Abbey Road medley as a look back at their time as The Beatles, bookended by YNGMYM and the reprise in Carry That Weight, which are Paul reflecting on the current state of things:

Sun King: the early days when everything felt magical (which always makes me think of some of Paul's comments on Good Times Coming/Feel the Sun from Press to Play, where he talked about the summer of '63 and that photo shoot they did in old-fashioned bathing suits as representative of one of his own golden summers)

Mean Mr. Mustard and Polythene Pam: characters who represent their Liverpool roots and people they knew back then

She Came In Through the Bathroom Window: Beatlemania, the experience of having people trying to invade your life and privacy

Golden Slumbers: recognition that life has changed forever and that there's no going back

Carry That Weight: the price of fame and the acknowledgement that it's something they have to live with forever

So that sonic transition into Sun King is deliberately evoking those memories of youth and a more innocent time. It's almost the equivalent of Paul wearing his old Quarrymen shirt to one of their last photo shoots, and it makes me wonder, like always, about what John thought of all that - the yearning songs, the nostalgia, Paul literally writing The End. Did he notice, did he care, did he think Paul was just being a drama queen? Who knows, Yoko?

(I know a lot of parts of the medley weren't written for that purpose, but it's like a collage: ultimately, part of the meaning comes from the way in which you arrange things, not just in where they originated. And the transitions were deliberate and help to frame that.)

#random song thoughts

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