#dylison

I saw you mention a couple of times that you like unusual or 'rare' pairings within the Beatles space, both as a reader and as a writer. Would you like to elaborate on why that is? And: do you have (a) favorite(s)?

Hi! Thanks for the question!

I'm sitting here writing and deleting figuring out the best way to word this.

In everything I do I take "the path least traveled" as it were. I like going down research rabbit holes that most people haven't. I think that might be part of it.

I also think that too much stock is put into John and Paul, and it reduces them to two-dimensional in a lot of ways. There was so much more to both of them than their feelings for each other, and I love finding that.

I never understand how people can look at Ringo and just decide he has "straight vibes"

Or hear that Jurgen had a crush on George and not think that maybe it was requited.

Read that Ian James and Paul bought matching silverflecked jackets and danced around listening to elvis and not wonder if it was slow dancing

Learn about how Ringo and Johnny Guitar shared a tiny chalet in the Butlins and not go in search for more info.

I want to know everything there is to know and I feel like "rare pairs" get me all the closer. And it makes me sad that they're rare cause they were possible relationships too. I know rare means not talked about as much but it so often feels like it means less likely to exist, which again is so strange to say about people we don't and never will know.

As for my favorites....

Icke Braun and Paul is a big one. Icke is just so anxious and there are many times that I wonder if he wasn't, if he had had the courage to see Paul in the 80s, if they would have rekindled something.

Denny Laine, Linda and Paul is one of my favorites as well. Just the loving throuple of it all.

George and Dylan aren't really a rare pair but they aren't talked about nearly enough for how almost confirmed they are.

Paul and George is probably my favorite pairing of the four boys, though Paul and Ringo is a close second.

Johnny Guitar and Ringo are also a big one.

And I forgot the girls. I'd love fics about Dot and Cyn, there's quite a lot to suggest something happened while the boys were in Hamburg.

Or, now that I've seen May Pang's movie, her and Cyn would be great too.

Certain photos of George and Paul and Jane together make me think about them quite a lot.

Oh George and Eric Idle needs more love.

I could go on and on, I think the less people write about it, the more I want to know, the more I want to read.

I'm sure I'm not alone in that, but I don't know too many people who feel the same way, though, I've found some, you included.

Well, that link, this one, is no longer a dead link. It goes to an interview with someone named Steve Forbert. Get this, from September 2022.

So, not only did they delete the actual interview, now the proof that it existed at all is gone too.

Now we find that just fascinating.

We revisit this every now and then, trying to find more details and this time we happened across some Dylan lyrics that we really want to share:

Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream (from Bringing It All Back Home 1965)

... The waitress he was handsome He wore a powder blue cape ... They asked me for some collateral And I pulled down my pants ... And I hopped inside a cab I went out the other door This Englishman said, “Fab” ... He said his name was Columbus I just said, “Good luck”

The full song if you're interested, cause it's really gay and there is a direct mention to George.

So, it seems like, one, even though Columbus is a bad guy now, he wasn't for Dylan and still isn't for Dylan, we see the comparison as a negative, but it isn't, it's frankly some of the highest praise he could give George in bed.

GM tried to be impartial, but Paul was always his favorite. He was completely enamoured with him.

Brian was the same way, with Paul and John holding a different special place in his heart.

John and Ringo both loved George but not enough to put him first. I will say, though, Ringo did get there, eventually.

And Paul...well, Paul had stopped putting George first as soon as he met John.

Looking at the photos of GM and Paul I realized that if George had been put first in just one of those situations. With John or Ringo or GM or Brian, he might not have felt second best. Just one of them.

GM could have stood up to Paul saying George should get more songs on the album, but he wouldn't dare. He valued Paul's love too much to risk it on George. But he could have, and Paul might have even listened.

Happy 1 year anniversary to our Dylison confirmation.

John - Freeman

George - Dylan

Paul - Fraser

Does George even realize how much of a third wheel he is here?

And that's the Woodstock trip in 1968. Bob was barely paying attention to George, and George just wanted Bob to love him.

Ah yes, it's December. Time again for Dylan to say something really sweet but also kinda assholey about George.

"you don't have to be a great singer to sing it"

now, is that better or worse than