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Paul McCartney’s journey of discovering himself as a musician and as a person after leaving behind pop culture’s biggest phenomenon.

1981.

Detail of Medusa (c.1618), by Peter Paul Rubens.

What They Say in New England; A Book of Signs, Sayings, and Superstitions, 1896

“Don’t ever ask me why , I never say goodbye to my love. Its understood , it’s everywhere with my love..and my love does it good.” -‘My Love’ by Paul McCartney dedicated to wife, Linda.

“When you were young and your heart was an open book, you used to say “live and let live”. But if this ever changing world in which we live in makes you give in and cry… say live and let die”

I got this package in the mail from this girl who’s been a friend of mine for years, who had been holding on to this box for me, this little brown-paper box which Hillel had given me in 1986. There was something written on the box, and it said: ‘Anthony, you think what I feel and understand what I say. I love you. This is our year, 24. Hillel.’ I went out into my back yard, and I just sat there for a minute, and all of a sudden, I managed to get through all of those layers, and I got down to the real me. I started crying and talking to myself – and talking to Hillel. You know, “My Lovely Man" is about my love for Hillel and the fact that eventually I will find him. It’s kind of like when I die, I am counting on him to save me a seat. And whenever I sing that song, Hillel is completely in my world.   – Anthony Kiedis, 1992

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BRAD WHITFORD: "I got to see Zeppelin for the first time not long after I first heard their debut album. I saw them in August of ’69 at the Frank Connelly’s Carousel Theater in Framingham, Massachusetts. I drove all the way down to the show, but when I got there it was sold out. The beauty of the show was it was being held in a tent, a theatre in-the-round tent. I knew I could at least listen to the show because it was a canvas tent. My girlfriend and I walked up to the police line, which was all the way around the theatre and asked one of the officer’s where the bathrooms were. So he points behind him and said, “The bathrooms are right over there” and he let us walk right past him. So we walked in, sat down and got to see the bulk of the show. They didn’t have any fancy clothes on. They were wearing dirty jeans and dirty t-shirts. They were these hippies up there. Their hair was really long. You could barely see their faces half the time. They looked unkempt. It was just so pure and they delivered. At one point the PA went down and the band kept on playing and you could still hear Robert singing. He just kept on singing. Something had broken down temporarily and they didn’t stop. Jimmy was playing through two stacks and it was loud. And it was like, “Holy shit, you can still hear him sing.” I was dumbfounded. They were that good. It was so fuckin’ primal. I was on an adrenaline high from that show for like 12 months. That was the best I ever saw them perform. It was still so fresh and new to them and they were just nailing it."

// she was a day tripper, sunday driver, yeah //

The Big Lebowski (1998)

- Rob Sheffield, Dreaming Of The Beatles

Let it Be (1970)