Beatles biographers saying totally normal things about John and Paul: A compilation
"āJohn always used to say,ā Yoko told me at one point, āthat no one ever hurt him the way Paul hurt him.ā The words suggested a far deeper emotional attachment between the two than the world ever suspected - they were like those of a spurned lover." -Philip Norman
"No matter how much he loved Yoko, the Gibraltar ceremony seems like something close to an on-the-rebound reaction to the loss of his first great love, Paul McCartney." -Chris Salewicz
"Almost in each otherās face, John and Paul quickly gained an unusual closeness, little or nothing hidden. Paul noticed that āJohn had beautiful hands." -Mark Lewisohn
"With Yoko present, Paul McCartneyās reign as Lennonās princess was doomed.ā -Peter McCabe
"John's in love with Yoko," Paul confessed to aĀ reporter from the 'Evening Standard', "and he's no longer in love with theĀ three of us." But for all intents and purposes, he might as well have beenĀ talking about himself." -Bob Spitz
'I thought Paul's was rubbish,' opined Lennon, saying that he preferred George's All Things Must Pass. McCartney studied the article with the morbid fascination of a jilted lover receiving a kiss-off letter. -Howard Sounes
āLennon could have abandoned the (US) immigration case and returned to Britain, and possibly even to McCartney, but that would have meant accepting that his relationship with Ono was over.ā-Peter Dooget
"Theirs was a volatile relationship right up to the end, and was fraught with emotional summits and valleys. While the connection between them was strictly heterosexual, it was deep, passionate, and highly explosive." -Geoffrey Giuliano
"John was insecure, and when he saw Paul he wanted to look cool. He gave up all his friends for Paul. Aunt Mimi recalled thatĀ John jumped around the kitchen when he told her about his new friend. She sarcastically said to JohnĀ that they were like āchalk and cheeseā meaning how different they were. AndĀ John would start hurling himself around the room shouting āChalk and Cheese!'ā smiling and laughing. He was fucking in love with him, heĀ adored him. She understood he found the partner of his life.ā -Thomas Rhodes
āThe last week in August, Paul McCartney returned to Liverpool, tanned and noticeably slimmer. In addition to starting school, he came back to begin a relationship he seemed destined for: hooking up with John Lennon." -Bob spitz
āSeeing Lennon focus on Ono rather than him [Paul] was as devastating as it would have been for Cynthia Lennon to witness the couple making love.ā -Peter Dogget
