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John Lennon In Polaroid Pictures (1967)

i can't get over john and paul using the other's signature for their own. the lennon mccartney thing from the very beginning was some sort of transcendental psychic pseudo blood-bond they made where every word one of them wrote equally belonged to the other. most artists strive to gain singular recognition but these two were more than willing to merge together into one creative superbeing. the attached signatures make that so literal that if this was shown in a movie or book it would seem on the nose. like okay. meld together your personal signifiers. be bound for eternity. whatever. i don't care.

John 😭

“It is probably fair to say that [John’s] personal and creative attachment to the other Beatles had been replaced by his totally uncompromising relationship with Yoko. She was by then his main artistic collaborator, effectively cuckolding Paul. Indeed, the Two Virgins LP (released November 1968), with its notorious nude portrait of the two of them on the cover, was nothing if not a clear indication of John’s desire to work with her and to embrace more avant-garde forms of self-expression.”