Girl With A Broken Halo

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"Nostalgia", "Memories of things past"

Hehe, yes I've seen it! George and Eric (who plays both Paul and the reporter) were very close. I don't doubt he told him quite a few things about John and Paul.

Idle has also noted that his bond with Harrison was compounded by their shared status within their respective groups. “It occurred to me later that we both played similar roles inside our groups with big power blocks,” Idle told Rolling Stone. “Once I was moaning a little bit on [Life of] Brian, saying, ‘It was hard to get onscreen with Michael Palin and John Cleese.’ He said, ‘Well, imagine what it’s like trying to get studio time with Lennon and McCartney.’ I said, ‘All right. Absolutely. Got it. OK. Check. I’ll shut up now.’ Then it occurred to me that yes, in fact, we were slightly the outsiders, playing similar roles in our groups.”

And then I remember the slight obsession (or would it be "affection", according to Graham Chapman's autobiography) that John Cleese had for Michael Palin, something that even became a joke among the rest of the group.

getting pussy

getting high

a woman with depression he just made up out of nowhere and it has nothing to do with him or his internal life.

“You’re holding me down, turning me ‘round, and filling me up with your rules”

He was the one who hated school and thought his teachers weren't cool;

He was the one who used to be the angry teddy boy. And the one who was married;

But most important: everyone knows now how controlling Paul could be.

In preparation for the upcoming performance, Brian needed appropriate backdrops for the Theatre. He commissioned Paul to come up with ideas for the stage designs. Paul presented the designs to Brian and John Lyndon, the Director of Productions at the Saville and one of the images was used as the backdrop.

Annotations of each image from Designer Paul below!

12 mirrors in which the audience catch a glimpse of themselves and entrance

This way up

Slow moving machinery

Red curtains behind here, backed with silver, HINGES, this piece of the set falls on the stage revealing red curtains through which performers emerge, smiling.

Festival set, entrance

Silver, gold, entrance hole

Plain comedy set, comedian enters through mouth, not smiling, crawling. Unnumbered design.

Abc, slide view of this

American set. British group

3 black ducks

Set for female vocalist or male, as the case may be

now they're frightened of leaving it

very much agreed. i don’t fault people for their individual preferences. we all have them and they’re perfectly valid. 

but to call ram – ram, the album paul made after basically dragging himself out of his deep, deep depression after the beatles split and the ensuing juristic and emotional battles, with the help of linda and the help of his music – “soulless” and “vacuous” as one of the hosts of something about the beatles did is, to me, very revealing.

I’ve seen a lot of chatter about people “fetishizing” the love between Lennon-McCartney but what I find much more vile and perverse is when people fetishize John and Paul hating each other.  Especially John hating Paul, and (supposedly) ‘rejecting’ Paul and ‘bullying’ Paul, because this is what Paul deserves for being so pretty and looking like a girl.  The narrative is that Paul is a bitch and John is a real man (i.e. aggressive, mean and super-straight) and therefore Paul’s music is crap because John said so after they broke up and John couldn’t possibly have ulterior motives for his bone-deep, wounded displays of overcompensation.  Clearly John is a sober, unbiased critic of Paul McCartney, right?

Here are some words I commonly hear to describe Paul:

Bossy

Controlling

Cold

Manipulative

Calculated

Vain

Mom

Wife

Girlfriend

Diva

Lightweight

Is anyone seriously going to argue that there is not a sexist bias against Paul?  Paul is a complex man of enormous fortitude and a wide, varied, remarkable artistic history.  Yet he’s STILL commonly reduced to “the cute one.”  Jesus, is there really a woman on earth who doesn’t see that for what it is?

People are OUTRAGED that Paul would use his creative energy and resources to lead the group in a time of crisis.  People are OUTRAGED that Paul would demand everyone show up and work hard.  I mean who does Paul think he is?  He should know his place!

The unhinged desire of the (overwhelmingly straight male) heteronormative media to fit John and Paul into a Man/Woman, Top/Bottom paradigm is SO GROSS and inappropriate, on so many levels.  EVERYTHING is framed as a battle for dominance.  But John and Paul were partners, friends, collaborators.  It was a marriage, not a fucking porno.  Stop pretending it was a hate-filled, 24/7 wrestling match just so you can stamp out the uncomfortable feelings that arise in those moments when you realize that these guys were actually in love with each other.

Paul deserves a fucking MEDAL from Beatles fans for stepping up and assuming the responsibility and burden of leading the group in the final years.  Without Paul there would be no Let it Be and no Abbey Road.  JOHN LITERALLY SAID SO.  Paul almost destroyed himself to make those albums happen.  And yes, of course he benefitted from them also!  So what?  Where is the fucking bar here?  Paul is only supposed to act in a way that directly benefits John and no one else?  WTF are we talking about?!  

She's So Heavy

FYI, some of the photos he took: