I think it's this interview where Michael said LiB was in progress.
I was kinda under the impression that since we hadn't heard more about it, it had been shelved.
Nice to know that's not the case.
Can't wait to see it!
Rumour Mill #9: Disney teases another Beatles project
While it's unclear what precisely Disney has planned, the image aligns with rumors that the Beatles Let It Be film has been remastered and will soon be available for viewing. (Paul McCartney himself touched on the idea of a new edit of the film back in 2018.)
Possible Peter Jackson Involvement
If that's the case, it's possible that Peter Jackson, the man responsible for the acclaimed The Beatles: Get Back Disney Plus series released in 2021, also worked on remastering Let It Be, which was originally directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg and released in 1970.
#seriously i’ll take what I can get #anything about the Beatles hypes me to the core anyway #i want to see new BTS edits pleaaaaase
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Corporal Punishment
There are numerous accounts of how Jim occasionally walloped his sons when provoked—Mike McCartney even claims they were “duly bashed”—but his sister-in-law maintains they are untrue. “Jim and Mary never smacked the boys,” she says. “They took them to their room and gave them a good talking-to, but they never hit them. Never.”
— In Bob Spitz’s The Beatles (2005).
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‘I was once hitting Michael for doing something,’ says Jim. ‘Paul stood by shouting at Mike, “Tell him you didn’t do it and he’ll stop.” Mike admitted he had done it, whatever it was. But Paul was always able to get out of most things.’
‘I was pretty sneaky,’ says Paul. ‘If I ever got bashed for being bad, I used to go into their bedroom when they were out and rip the lace curtains at the bottom, just a little bit, then I’d think, that’s got them.’
— In Hunter Davies’s The Beatles (1968).
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I once saved Paul’s life, viewers (but we’re quits, he later saved mine)! He was ten at the time and I was about eight. One day we found a lime pit which had filled with rain and turned into a small pond. Some workmen had left a plank balanced across it and, needless to say, we had to walk across it. […]
In the end we decided we’d both go together. That meant disaster. We were about halfway across when the plank began to sway dangerously and suddenly Paul lost his balance and fell in. The plank then wobbled so much that I fell in after him.
We might have drowned - really! […] I remember digging my fingers into the soft, slippery earth and getting a grip on a big stone or something and then starting to haul myself out. But when I turned to see how Paul was doing, I saw that he had fallen back, spluttering and gasping, and his head was going under. I grabbed him by the collar and held on. He caught hold of my arm and clung to it. We stayed like that until a neighbour, hearing our cries, rescued us.
That night, by way of reward, Dad gave us the hiding of our lives. We went to bed crying and lay with our heads on the pillows sobbing bitterly. I was prepared to regard the hiding as just punishment. But not Paul. He dried his eyes and began to think out ways of getting revenge on Dad. Some of them sounded like ideas out of a Chinese torture book, only dafter. Finally, he said: “If I could, I’d take Dad up to 15,000 feet in a plane, dig a hole, fill it with water, and drop him in!”
— Mike McCartney, in ‘Portrait of Paul’ for Woman Magazine (21 August 1965).
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I never much liked authority. I didn’t like school teachers or critics telling me what I should do. Or myself telling me. I’m alive – do it!
— Paul McCartney, interviewed by Nicci Gerrard for the Observer: The long and winding ode (11 March 2001).
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PAUL: I always had ambitions to be something good. I didn’t know what it would be. You know, I was always quite ambitious but I wouldn’t buckle down at school like a lot of people. The teachers just didn’t help. We had some right perverts as teachers.
PARKINSON: In what way?
PAUL: Well they used to beat the shit out of you! There was this one guy with a plimsoll that he used to take it out on us with. You know, bend over, whop!
— Paul McCartney, on ITV’s Parkinson Show (17 December 2005).
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HARTY: Did you ever get caned for being naughty?
PAUL: I did occasionally, yes; I must admit, your honor. There were a couple of occasions.
HARTY: And your mates were caned as well, sometimes?
PAUL: Mates were caned, yes. We did— They used to cane us, “six of the best” kind of thing. But I remember this time George got caned — George Harrison, because we were mates at school — and I mean, we never really did anything wrong, but we might have like tight trousers and Ted hairdos. So that pointed you out as someone— “Here’s a troublemaker.” So George got done once, and the teacher missed him and got him here [mimics getting caned on the inner wrist]. So he had— a couple of big wheels came up here, you know those rash things. And he went home and he’s having his tea with his dad and they’re all chatting about how it went at school. His dad said, “What’s that?” He saw these things [on his inner wrist]. And George told him, “You know, the teacher did it.” So the next day they were in class and someone popped their head around the door of the class, “Hm, Mister—” whoever the teacher was that caned George, “come out here for a moment, please.” He came out, and it was George’s dad there! He said, “Did you do that to my son?”, across the— “Yes, I did.” [mimics Harry Harrison punching the teacher in the face] Oh! Right there! Honest, honest!
HARTY: And what happened after that?
PAUL: Oh, he was a hero! He was— he was just the school hero, George’s dad. That was it, you know. But I used to tell my dad, “I got caned, dad.” “Well, you probably did something wrong.”
HARTY: No help from there at all.
PAUL: “Dad, you know, dad, hit him!”
— Paul McCartney, on BBC’s Harty Show (23 November 1984).
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Mike McCartney was once knocked unconscious by a master; when he told his dad […] Jim merely said, “Don’t be silly son, the masters are always right,” and went back to his crossword.
— In Mark Lewisohn’s Tune In (2013).
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I nearly did very well at grammar school but I started to get interested in art instead of academic subjects. […] The words they used in their end-of-term reports: ‘If he would only buckle down…’ and you’d go, ‘No! No! Get out of my life! I hate you. You should say I’m great. I’ve got to take this home, you know.’
— Paul McCartney, in Barry Miles’ Many Years From Now (1997).
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I don’t like criticism whatever. I don’t think I ever liked it when my Dad said, ‘I don’t like your trousers’.
— Paul McCartney, in Paul Gambaccini’s In His Own Words (1976).
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And his dad was the whole thing. Just simple things: he wouldn’t go against his dad and wear drainpipe trousers. And his dad was always trying to get me out of the group behind me back, I found out later. He’d say to George: “Why don’t you get rid of John, he’s just a lot of trouble. Cut your hair nice and wear baggy trousers,” like I was the bad influence because I was the eldest, so I had all the gear first usually.
So Paul was always like that. And I was always saying, “Face up to your dad, tell him to fuck off. He can’t hit you. You can kill him [laughs], he’s an old man.” I used to say, “Don’t take that shit off him.” Because I was always brought up by a woman, so maybe it was different. But I wouldn’t let the old man treat me like that. He treated Paul like a child all the time, cut his hair and telling him what to wear, at seventeen, eighteen.
But Paul would always give in to his dad. His dad told him to get a job, he fucking dropped the group and started working on the fucking lorries, saying, “I need a steady career.” We couldn’t believe it. So I said to him—my Aunt Mimi reminded me of this the other night—he rang up and said he’d got this job and couldn’t come to the group. So I told him on the phone, “Either come or you’re out.” So he had to make a decision between me and his dad then, and in the end he chose me.
— John Lennon, interviewed by Peter McCabe and Robert Schonfeld (September 1971).
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PAUL: But you know, it’s funny talking about this sort of parents— the thing was he did use to kind of hit me, occasionally. Like, that was what they did in those days. You’re not allowed to do it so much these days, but— […] You know, I was— [mutters] it was not all great. But I tell you what, what comes to mind — or just the memory — of the one moment when I was about, I don’t know, sixteen, seventeen or something. And he came in with the usual stuff. He’d just sort of slap me. We’re having an argument, he’d slap me. […] So, I just stood there — and it was like an amazing moment in my life — I said, ‘Go ahead. Do it again.’ And he was like [makes descending sound]. And he never did it again. It was, ‘Go ahead’, you know. This was it. [laughs] The record companies would sue him.
— Paul McCartney, interviewed by Howard Stern for the Stern Show (18 October 2001).
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Children; Up to a certain age, I love all of them. After that, some of them get wrecked, mainly by parents.
— Paul McCartney for Melody Maker: Pop Think-In (1 January 1966).
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I told you for instance that I didn’t like dogs and cats, until I got a dog and a cat and love them for what they are, just ’cause they’re dogs and cats. I’m quite willing to accept that dogs and cats are dogs and cats. And I still find that there’s a vague little sort-of sadistic thing in me about dogs and cats and if I ever have to punish her [his dog Martha] I can do it quite easily. Which I hate.
— Paul McCartney, interviewed by Barry Miles for International Times: A conversation with Paul McCartney (November 1966).
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LESLIE: And if my mother only knew!
PAUL: [concerned] What would she do?
LESLIE: It’s not— I— [unintelligible] No, we’re not supposed to be allowed to—
PAUL: [unintelligible] about civil liberties.
LESLIE: Oh, that’s interesting.
PAUL: Yeah, right? It’s great!
LESLIE: In England or in America?
PAUL: Well, all over the place, eventually. We’ll get some liberty, you know. [unintelligible] And it’s just about all the kind of things that people clamp down on young people for when they don’t actually know what’s going on! So I’m just trying to give the point of view of the people that, you know, don’t really want to be spanked anymore, thank you, daddy! Just sort of tell us why you don’t want us to do it. Explain it clearly, and maybe we won’t do it. But if you keep spanking us, we’re gonna be naughty. You know, and try to explain that one away.
— Paul McCartney speaks with Leslie Samuels and Donna Stark, two young fans who visited him at his home in 7 Cavendish Avenue (July 1967).
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[Just a hazy collection of quotes on Paul and corporal punishment. There were some that I wanted to include but just couldn’t locate; for example, Paul talking about how he wouldn’t hit his own kids.
It’s interesting to contrast the two brothers’ response to the same punishment. Mike seems to have no problem talking about it — and in quite explicit terms — from as early as 1965. Paul, on the other hand, would only go deeper into it until almost 50 years after the fact. Mike also recounts how he was ready to accept the punishment, while Paul resented it so much he needed to exact some kind of revenge on his parents, realized or imagined.
I feel like Paul was especially sensitive about this type of punishment for how profoundly unfair it felt. Regardless of what he had done (or what was considered normal for the times), I think Paul always found it unacceptable to be treated in such a way. So he couldn’t make peace with it as easily as his brother. This in turn influenced and was influenced by his general relationship with authority.
I feel it also somehow connects with Paul’s preoccupations with making it clear that John never hit him — as was represented in the movie Nowhere Boy — which he felt the need to state again in The Lyrics.
Essentially, I feel that for a person like Paul — who values control over his own person/personal freedom so much — having his bodily integrity and autonomy violated in such a way was/is a big deal, which shaped how he dealt with other figures of power. (Insert here a whole essay on Paul’s borderline-traumatized reaction to Allen Klein and his forceful advances, and how he argues John took Klein on because he wanted a “daddy”.)]
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Wow, what a way to say George saw through your bs and wanted nothing to do with you.
At least Ray Connolly tried to set them straight at the end there. This is one of those times I'm wondering what was edited out or into this book.
An Excerpt from Ray Connolly’s 1980 Interview with Steven Gaines and Peter Brown
RC: (…) I didn’t get to know George, really.
SG: I don't think he was easy to get to know.
RC: Isn't it an interesting thing that George turned out to be the one who has this baronial mansion in the material world?
SG: He gardens all day long. It's very obsessive.
PB: All the years I've known him, I've never felt I was ever close to George. You never knew what was going on in his head. I saw them a lot because I used to go out with Pattie all the time. But I never knew quite what was going on in there. Ticking around in his head.
SG: Maybe nothing. That's sometimes the case. Inscrutable people are sometimes like Peter Sellers in Being There.
RC: George was very sharp. Extremely sharp.
from Peter Brown and Steven Gaines’ new book “All You Need Is Love” pg. 188
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