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I honestly didn’t expect him to find a way to mention John while answering a question about »Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey«, but he proved me wrong.

#those formative experiences #truly do rewire you forever

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ttpd is like... this fucking sucked... it was my fault... fuck joe... this also fucking sucked... fuck matty... i thought i was gonna die... straight up commit me to an asylum... FUCK matty... fuck joe... no one knows me... fuck kim kardashian... i created every problem and every consequence i have to face... please see me as human... i am exposing my flaws so you see me as a real person... fuck jake gyllenhaal... if you're gonna be so up my business you better realize how fucked up my business is... also hi killatrav ily... there is nothing redeeming about this chapter of my life... hi mom ily... this ALSO fucking sucked... there may be good in the world... here is every sin i have ever committed... i was promised love and forever repeatedly and no one ever delivered... my reaction to trauma was awful... i made so many bad decisions... if you're gonna crucify me do it for good reasons... are you not entertained?

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I’ve learnt a lot through this already. Mostly that people hate Dizzy Miss Lizzie which is sad and wrong. Also some very sad dislike for the absolutely BANGER I’m Happy Just to Dance with You. But mostly it’s soooooo nice seeing how much people love the early albums and (obviously I guess) just love these songs. It’s made my day going through the tags.

Beatles fans, please indulge me and let me know in tags your most and least favourite songs on:

Please Please Me

With the Beatles

Hard Days Night

Beatles for Sale

Help!

Extra points for adding why.

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Paul McCartney and John Lennon at Shea Stadium (1965)

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Beatles fans, please indulge me and let me know in tags your most and least favourite songs on:

Please Please Me

With the Beatles

Hard Days Night

Beatles for Sale

Help!

Extra points for adding why.

#the Beatles #for fun #oh #I’ll go first #twist and shout & Taste of Honey #YRGAHOM & DIYH #if I fell & I’ll be back #eights day & mr moonlight #soooo hard but #hide your love & you like me too much

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Hi! Thank you for your "Going Nowhere"! ("thank you, thank you" purrs John's voice in my head). It's so nice to read it, hear it, feel it. It's like your words heal what's broken and during you're reading you know all's exactly how it is in this beautiful tale. ("In another world" sings Paul's voice in my enamored head). May be in another world or in our dream or in parallel reality built in Paul's heart. You give to your (our) heroes chance and they take it. You love them and want them be happy. And they are. Thank you a lot for this! ("Words wouldn't get my feelings through, so I keep talking to you however absurd, however absurd it may seem" two voices grope for harmony in my head - and Nerk Twins start dancing). Love

Oh my goodness! I’m sorry, I think I forgot to publish this and it’s been in my drafts for way too long.

Thank YOU SO MUCH for sending this. It’s so kind of you to take the time to write something so lovely. Writing GN was a real labour of love for me, just wanting to take a sad song and make it a little better. I’m glad you enjoyed it too.

#going nowhere

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this is apropos of nothing but it suddenly struck me today how funny it is that even at his absolute most burn-it-all-down bitter, there was still this totally casual acknowledgement from john that paul was super hot. like, sure, at his worst he sometimes presented it in an intentionally gross and emasculating way (john the manly working class true artist vs. paul the vapid pretty boy), but it remains fundamentally hilarious imo.

It’s sooooooooo funny. John was just in a constant state of, “He’s the worst man that’s ever lived. Hot af obviously. But what a cunt.” Honestly, one of the more relatable sides to John.

I’m also not sure that he always meant it to be emasculating either. Some of the time for sure. But I also think he was like, “There’s only so much I can expect the public to swallow. That he broke up the Beatles by being a little bitch? Sure. Untalented? Absolutely. Deliberately sabotaged his bands own songs? I’ll give it a go. Doesn’t really love his wife? Easy! But not the most beautiful human anyone has ever seen? Now, let’s not go too far, we’ll look ridiculous…”

#John remaind a Paul girl #unto death #as all good Paul girls will #beth rambles

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Paul liked to keep his options open and this applied to friendship. Just when you thought you were getting to know him, to feel a commitment from him, he'd slip behind a smiling mask. Finally I came to accept this aspect of his nature and we worked together, travelled together in a relaxed fashion, but never with any developed contact.

Paul had a real appetite for life -- an exuberant optimism and a buoyant enthusiasm that was admirable even if at times it overwhelmed his sceptical partner, John.

...He lived in his head to create music or lived to create music in his head. This process or activity could account for a certain distance in his contact with people, however pleasant and engaging he might appear.

Robert Freeman, The Beatles: A Private View

#it’s funny you say that Kris #because I can see what you mean #and you’re not wrong #but also #I can see why people felt so hurt by him #because it felt like being let in #or rather that you were perpetually about to be let in #only for that never to happen #somehow the same but opposite of John

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I'm sure he'd prefer to be alive but there’s also no way that john lennon wouldn’t be a at least a little self-satisfied with the idea of his death permanently making him the center of paul’s universe. he doesn't seem like the "you need to let me go" type. he seems more like the "if you don't cry over me at least once a week I'm going to start flickering the lights on and off until you have a seizure" type

#oh no for real #he’d be sooooo happy #probably not with a lot of the other stuff #but Paul never being able to escape? #never get satisfaction? #boner central

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One of the most unhinged couples in rock history.

JohnandYoko from a screenshot of "Get back" where they looked VERY cryptid-like.

#oh this is awesome #little weiros #in their natural habitat

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I see you McCartney

with your early 70s singles b-sides

Another Day - yeahh, schmaltzy love song about luvin' my wife

Oh Woman, Oh Why - WHAT HAVE I DONE WHAT HAVE YOU DONE I CAN'T GET BY

Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey - so sorry, Uncle, we slept in but we'll be right over after tea

Too Many People - GET OFF YOUR FUCKING HIGH HORSES JOHN AND YOKO

My Love - yeahh, schmaltzy love song about luvin' my wife

The Mess - SWEET DARLING WHAT A MESS I'M IN SINCE YOU LEFT ME CAN YOU HEAR ME

#this is about as sneaky as Paul gets

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john and paul!

#reeeeeally cute

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#prev #well yes #I assumed this was a top/bottom discourse poll

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When we met the Beatles they were undressed and dripping with sweat

That day the Beatles were playing, all kitted out in black ties, white shirts and black trousers. It was so hot and crowded in the Cavern that, as usual, sweat was dripping off the ceiling, but we didn’t mind. The Beatles’ rhythm and harmonies were so tight and focused that we couldn’t stop dancing. They played covers of Barrett Strong originals, like Some Other Guy and Money. They did a raucous version of Twist and Shout, and wild rock’n’roll songs like Chuck Berry’s Roll over Beethoven and Little Richard’s saucy Long Tall Sally. More than ever, we wanted to be up on stage like them, playing our guitars and making the crowd rock.

After the set Wooler [Bob Wooler, the Cavern’s compere and DJ] said, “Come on, I’ll take you to meet the lads.” It was so exciting. He grabbed us and we threaded through the audience backstage where George Harrison was standing in the corridor talking to a very good-looking blonde girl. He was wearing a fantastic black leather coat, and later walked out of the Cavern with her, already like a rock star.

In the dressing room John Lennon and Paul McCartney were in their undies, getting changed. They were drying themselves with towels because they had just come off stage and were dripping with sweat. They were very handsome. Apart from our brothers, we’d never seen men in underpants before, so us four teenage girls just stood there staring at them. They were very down to earth, and Paul was particularly kind.

“Hiya girls, y’all right?” he said, while John sat there looking at us in a way that was direct and penetrating.

Bob Wooler told them, “This is the Liverbirds, they’re gonna be the first all-girl group.”

“What a great idea,” said Paul, but Lennon was sarcastic. “Girls don’t play guitars,” he said.

After we left the dressing room we huffed, “The cheek of it! We’re going to prove him wrong.” Years later we found out more about Lennon, that although he often made sardonic comments he was also sensitive and intelligent, an artist who regretted his disdainful treatment of women in his early career. “We can’t have a revolution that doesn’t involve and liberate women. It’s so subtle the way you’re taught male superiority,” he said in 1971, in an interview with Tariq Ali and Robin Blackburn for the underground paper Red Mole. It’s clear his feelings about women evolved, but we also wonder if what he said that day in the Cavern dressing room was meant to test us, provoke us into making a success of the band. If so, it certainly worked.

from The Liverbirds: Our Life in Britain’s First Female Rock’n’roll Band by Mary McGlory and Sylvia Saunders (source)

#lovely stuff #while John sat there looking at us in a way that was direct and penetrating. #also #he was blind my loves #I think it’s funny to imagine #all those people who thought john was so tough and mean #when really he’s just trying to figure out who you are #and if he’s met you before

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Brian Epstein watches The Beatles performing at the Washington Coliseum, 11th February 1964

#he was so proud of you Paul #of all his boys #oh Brian

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genuenily

#and mostly #that band? #the Beatles