#dot rhone

"Indeed, to these city kids of modest aims and British ceilings, Brian Epstein had it all. He was so widely traveled and cultured, so sophisticated in dress and taste, that he seemed more worldly than all the others who previously had gotten involved with the Beatles' business affairs. That image made all the difference to Paul, who, of all the Beatles, aspired most to such pretensions. Paul, says Dot Rhone, 'was more ambitious than John, and he got caught up in the picture of success Brian painted.' From the start, as she watched Paul cozy up to Brian, 'Paul wanted badly to impress him,' Dot says. 'Eventually, he hoped it would give him an advantage over John' ... although Jim McCartney, while certainly impressed by Brian's credentials, cautioned Paul specifically against the wiles of 'a Jewboy.'"—The Beatles by Bob Spitz.

I really have to wonder if Paul clued in to that. Like was he just like "yeah my dad loves babies and he loves Dot, of course he's excited." Or did it hit him then that Jim was suspicious of John for more reasons than he'd been forthcoming about? And if that's the case, did it change the way Paul himself looked at his relationship with John, or was he already aware by that point of the sexual aspect of their relationship?

(sorry I didn’t say much more for Cynthia, it’s just a LOT of typing)

At the age of 17, Dot Rhone met Paul McCartney around 1959 at the Casbah Club in Liverpool and began a relationship shortly after. Dot is known as the first serious girlfriend of Paul's. Though Dot described Paul as kind and caring, Paul acknowledged that he was possessive and very controlling over Dot during their relationship. "At the time everyone was trying to turn their girlfriends into a bargain basement [Brigitte] Bardot. [...] We were all smitten. So the girls had to be blonde, look rather like Brigitte and preferably pout a lot. John and I used to have these secret talks intimating, although not actually saying it, that we could be quite happy for our girlfriends to be Liverpool's answer to Bardot. My girlfriend was called Dot and, of course, John had Cynthia. We got them both to go blonde and wear miniskirts. It's terrible really. But that's the way it was." Paul McCartney Around 1960, Dot discovered she was pregnant. While her family tried to convince Dot to place the child up for adoption, Paul refused. With the support of his father, Paul proposed to Dot and began to plan marriage arrangements, even getting a marriage license but after three months, Dot suffered a miscarriage. Paul and Dot continued to date after the marriage was called off. While in Hamburg, Paul wrote letters to Dot but over time, the letters became less and less. In 1962, as the Beatles grew in popularity, Paul decided to end his relationship. Dot eventually moved to Canada and lost contact with Cynthia. Dot got married and had three children. Dot saw Paul three times after their relationship ended, twice in Canada while the Beatles toured and in 1976 during a tour with the Wings.

Well sure! Thank you tons. Was that Johns name that you crossed out..?

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