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#John Lennon #1964 #love how Paul is just directly there with his droopy eyes

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Richard Lester & John Lennon in Ostenholz, Germany | 6 September 1966

#John Lennon #1966 #<3

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John Lennon and Paul McCartney in ‘Hey Jude’ music video.

#Paul: remember to let her into your heart --- to make it better #What's with that eyebrow twitch Lennon? #John: not now Paul - everyone is here #Hey Jude #Gif #Mclennon

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Look at me Oh, please look at me, my love Here I am Oh, my love

#Mclennon #gif #nudge nudge #interview

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Hamburg Airport 1961

#pete not wearing the matching hats #this is why it didn't work out pete #ringo was much more open to hivemind dress up rituals #<previous #hilarious!!! #babies #Hamburg

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Sometimes I feel really sad because The Beatles but then I get happy again because The Beatles.

#The Beatles #Mclennon #happy sad confused

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The Beatles in 1967

#1967 #Sgt. Pepper #The Beatles #Paul drug chick era #John Lennon's necklace is staring at me - I know it

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I need a stronger slur for these two

#Mclennon #John using camp voice to inform you “you're shit honey” #Paul looking like he about to divorce you in court and take all your money

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"I began to understand how the band interacted. As I saw it, Paul was the leader. He seemed the most sophisticated, most business-minded, thinking about their image. He was upbeat and encouraging. John was a leader in other ways on other days. He was the conscience of the group, certainly. Creatively, you sensed John and Paul were in charge, insisting, 'This is what we do.' Together, they had the last word.

John was a thoroughly decent guy. He was the most sensitive of the four, never wanting to insult anyone. At one of the New York dinners, someone was singing the national anthem. And a member of the party made a sarcastic remark about the singer’s delivery. John scolded him, 'Be quiet.' He didn’t want this stranger to be associated with the Beatles—and the Beatles, by association, to be seen as disrespectful, especially over the national anthem.

George was very serious and thoughtful. He was secretly impatient, I’d say, with all the bowing and scraping. But he was always courteous—to the point where, if the band would rush past a group of fans, he’d go back and apologize for how they got caught up in the moment. One night, I went with George to Coney Island, just the two of us. George was sort of homesick. I was alone too. He wanted to see a part of America that was different. But Coney Island? It was February, eight at night, with only one or two places open. It was drab and disappointing. We might as well have been in Bournemouth.

Ringo was accommodating, funny, even-keeled. He was part of the formula that made them a success. And he actually became an anchor for the band, onstage and off. Whenever there was tension, Ringo brought composure. ~ Harry Benson

When the Beatles Stormed America, I Was With Them Vanity Fair | 17 January 2024

#quotes #Harry Benson #Ringo the anchor - what a lovely thing to say!

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“𝑨 𝑴𝒊𝒅𝒔𝒖𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒓 𝑵𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕'𝒔 𝑫𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎”🌙

#Art #1964

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I don't get why John was ever seen as crazy for thinking Hey Jude might have been about him, at least partially. I mean "You have found her, now go and get her", "You're waiting for someone to perform with" from around the same time as JohnandYoko becomes a thing - it's more crazy for me to assert the song is chiefly about 5 year old Julian Lennon. Not saying he didn't have a distorted perspective on many things, but tbh I'm kinda annoyed at how easily people jump to call John paranoid and delusional.

You are very smart and way ahead of me anon. I don't know why I fell into that 'silly John' line of thinking before. Maybe because he says a lot of out-there things, even in the actual quote where he says he thinks the song could be about him. Here it is in full, by the way:

“I always heard it as a song to me. If you think about it… Yoko’s just come into the picture. He’s saying, ‘Hey, Jude – hey, John.’ I know I’m sounding like one of those fans who reads things into it, but you can hear it as a song to me. The words ‘go out and get her’ – subconsciously he was saying, Go ahead, leave me.“On a conscious level, he didn’t want me to go ahead. The angel in him was saying, ‘Bless you.’ The devil in him didn’t like it at all because he didn’t want to lose his partner.”

So here's what sounds crazy in that quote (imo)

I sound like one of those fans who reads into things. -- yes.

Go ahead. Leave me. -- why would you have to leave him to get together with Yoko?

On a conscious level he didn't want me to go ahead. -- do you know that? What sign did he give you at the time that that was how he was feeling?

The devil in him being the conscious part and the angel being subconscious. -- so basically Paul is consciously evil but unconsciously good?

But the more I pay attention to the lyrics, the more I definitely see what he's saying.

The song starts out with two lines that very well could have been directed at Julian. (Just like Two of Us starts off as something that was probably about Linda but turns into a song for John). "Don't make it bad. Take a sad song and make it better." Could easily about Julian.

But after that it veers off. "Remember to let her into your heart." "You were made to go out and get her." "Let her under your skin." Can't be about a five year old but could be about Paul himself or any random guy.

Then quickly it gets more specific. "Any time you feel the pain, hey Jude, refrain. Don't carry the world upon your shoulders." Sounds very much to John. "The pain" sounds like something John would reference in their talks and Paul's response would definitely be along the lines of "just don't feel it then."

This line, "for well you know that it's a fool who plays it cool by making his world a little colder," also sounds just like something John might've said to Paul, telling him his coldness was a mistake.

And finally, "you're waiting for someone to perform with. But don't you know that it's just you. Hey, Jude. You'll do. The movement you need is on your shoulder." It's clearly for John. And it's clearly giving him the okay to go off on his own and do his own thing. Which was not what John wanted and which would've hurt.

Anyway, tldr: John was not crazy to think hey Jude was about him and we should probably take his lyrical analysis of Paul's songs a little more seriously.

#Hey Jude #Lyrics #telling you guys it's the perfect stadium song #:D :D :D

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#Paul Mccartney #the girl next door #those eyes!

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since I've learned that paul mccartney is apparently regularly in contact with john lennon's ghost I would like to propose a new theory to the mclennon truthers that their relationship did take a turn but only after he died

#sorry for breaking tumblr etiquette but I think of that every time I see this post #<previous 🤣🤣😂😂😂 #thank you for your service in this community #funny #A Mclennon ghost story

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Ringo: How’s it going, John? 

John: We’ll be finished in a minute.

George: I didn’t know you and Paul could fix a motor.

Paul: Who’s fixing a motor? We’re writing another song.

Ringo: Sure, that’s what they’re doing.

#OMG the double meaning of under the hood #The Beatles Cartoon #Funny #Gif

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#John Lennon #Gif #ok how does he make putting on a leather jacket look so cool?!

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Close your eyes and I'll kiss you♡

#Art #Mclennon #amazing T_T

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Paul married Nancy on John's birthday. Coincidence?

Some people may think this was not intentional, but I don't think so:

"They have been given special dispensation by the council to marry on Sunday and have chosen what would have been the groom's former band-mate John Lennon's 71st birthday for their big day. A spokesman for McCartney told Reuters in an email: "We are not commenting." Source:https://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/08/us-paulmccartney-wedding-idUSTRE79707220111008/

"After the wedding, she [Barbara Walters] says, they all went to Paul's backyard where a tent was set up for the reception. [...] There was a toast that Paul made to John Lennon, whose 71st birthday it was." Source:https://www.insideedition.com/3176-barbara-walters-talks-nancy-shevell-paul-mccartney-wedding

So, Paul had to be given a special dispensation in order to get married that day (as October 9 fell on a Sunday that year), because apparently the registry office didn't usually hold weddings on Sundays. If the date was not important to him, why would he take the trouble of getting permission to get married that exact day? He could have chosen any other day of the year.

#marriage #Paul Mccartney #Nancy Shevell