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Ok also I felt in my bones while reading this book that she was a fanfic writer and yep turns out she used to write Drarry

Spoilers for In Memoriam by Alice Winn

I really thought she was gonna make them both survive hell and then do something like get them caught together and court marshalled and shot.

I’m so glad it had a happyish ending.

#no shade meant #and happily I don’t think the characters in the book were Harry Draco inserts

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John Dunbar: (...) The Beatles always tried to protect and defend [Brian]. Back then, Brian's homosexuality was a terrible thing and kept hidden, probably because the Beatles couldn't have him as their manager [if it were known]. Paul once said to me, "There are always rumors about me and Kenny Everett, or that Cliff Richard and I were gay." I said, "The only rumor I remember is that you were dead." SG: I'd forgotten that he was dead. JD: Yeah, but he remembered instantly. I called him up at his farm in Scotland and I said, "Paul, I hear you're dead." He said, "Not true."

All You Need is Love: The End of the Beatles, Peter Brown & Steven Gaines (2024)

#something must be missing from this conversation #the way Dunbar flits from acid to apple to Brian being gay to apparent rumours about Paul being gay in one answer #also re Cliff Richard his Wikipedia page says ‘When the suggestions were first put to him in the late 1970s’ #[about him being gay] #so just a bit before this interview #which is kind of interesting

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Spoilers for In Memoriam by Alice Winn

I really thought she was gonna make them both survive hell and then do something like get them caught together and court marshalled and shot.

I’m so glad it had a happyish ending.

#in memoriam

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Not to victim blame The Beatles for getting drugged without their consent but like who the fuck hangs out with their dentist

#oh I hadn’t realised all the Beatles went to this maniac

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"If you go to a party and the husband and wife have been having a row - there's a tension, an atmosphere. And you wonder whether you are making things worse by being there. I think that was kind of the situation we found with Ringo. He was probably feeling a little bit odd because of the mental strangeness with John and Yoko and Paul." -George Martin

(Source: The Beatles, Anthology, 1995)

#I like it when George Martin sounds just as unhinged as the rest of them

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Paul McCartney: The Biography, Philip Norman

#I was trying to find when in 1964 Paul bought Jim’s house #but instead I found confirmation about Jim sharing Paul’s bank account #I’d love to know how long that carried on

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LECTURE 12: IN THE SHADOW OF THE BEATLES: Gerry and the Pacemakers from Liverpool perform their biggest hit, “Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Crying,” a #1 smash in the UK, which climbed to an impressive #4 in the United States. The studio version is quite possibly the most hauntingly beautiful British Invasion song of all time in the humble opinion of this lowly blogger. This live version is charming, but not quite as moody and atmospheric and sublime as the studio recording. This is from the band’s appearance on  The Ed Sullivan Show on May 3, 1964. Like Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas and Cilla Black, Gerry and the Pacemakers scored big early on, but their success was not to last, and by 1966 they disbanded. 

#these Liverpudlians with their high guitars

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How have I just learnt that Eric Clapton’s racist rant was in 1976? I thought it was in like the 90s.

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All You Need Is Love, Peter Brown and Steven Gaines

#shade in the footnotes

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[John Dunbar]

All You Need Is Love, Peter Brown and Steven Gaines

#wdym John Dunbar? #be specific man

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[Dick James]

All You Need Is Love, Peter Brown and Steven Gaines

#Paul you don’t actually need to take the other person’s side when they’re fucking you over specifically

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All You Need is Love, Peter Brown and Steven Gaines

#so this is all tragic #the fact that making fun of his mother’s accent is a throughline of guilt until the present day is painful #(think he mentioned it in The Lyrics?) #and the wording ‘ruined’ is a lot

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Ok so add Donovan to the list of people who told Paul that Klein was awful.

#ffs

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Clip from 2 legs podcast interview with Jerry Marotta, drummer on Press To Play in summer 1985.

Bob Giraldi, music video director for Stranglehold, got right in Paul’s face and yelled at/threatened him, and Paul just took it.

Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvcV2SoUlnY

#the 80s #cocaine #paul #if someone did that to me I’d start to cry

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#as there are posts about Jim at the mo may as well post this #the bit about Jim’s current life in the Hunter Davies book #he retired earlier than the other parents #but that’s to. be expected - he was older #‘like all the Beatle parents he has an account from which he can take anything he likes’ #(is that contradicted by Mini’s letter in the 70s?) #and Mike said recently that he and Paul both moved to London when Paul bought their dad the house #so not sure if he moved back or if Mike is misremembering #in the recent interview #either way - I know the Asher’s house was nice but it’s baffling that he lived in that little attic room #but bought this amazing house for his dad #maybe it’s a ‘treat your elders right’ thing #and I guess he was touring a lot so needed it less #or maybe the difference with the others was that they were all buying houses to move in with their other half #and Paul didn’t want to make that commitment nor live alone at that point

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Every time I go into the Paul McCartney tag I’m annoyed because I don’t actually want to see the current top post with 27,000 notes.

It’s taken me approx 5 months to realise I could just block the person so I don’t have to see it anymore.

#but I do wish it was possible to just block individual posts

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Little Richard:

#ok I’ve definitely seen in Little Richard documentaries that MJ gave him back his publishing #but this quote implies that’s not the case… #is it MJ-estate fake news? #I fell down the Leaving Neverland sub-reddit rabbit hole today #and someone picked up on this