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i’ve returned five months later to state that out of tune by the backseat lovers has got to be written by paul mccartney because it’s so painfully teen john and paul it hurts

#LIKE UR KIDDING ME RIGHT? #SAY ONG BACKSEAT LOVERS?? #but yeah this is my great return i suppose #i’m genuinely appalled at how the entire song sounds like a fanfic i read before #the beatles #john lennon #paul mccartney #the backseat lovers #mclennon

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I liked your post about all the ways that John and Paul were weird, but I just wanted to let you know that you listed wanking together as one of them and that was actually very common for boys in that era to do together

Thank you, Paul. I’m sure it was

#it’s actually sean defending his honor #the day i found out someone asked sean if he shipped mclennon on here was the day my life changed #the beatles

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The saga of “what ifs” continues

If John had lived yk these sentimental fuckers would redo the David Bailey photo shoot but now that they’re old and i’d eat up every moment of it. I want a fanart of this B A D

#PUHLEASE #they’d be the ultimate power couple of the 21st century fym nuh uh #i’m so sad we don’t get to see what their dynamic would’ve grown into #they’d bully each other on twitter and John would’ve written fanfiction why do we have to miss out on this #the beatles #john lennon #paul mccartney #mclennon #david bailey

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I’m violently sobbing on the floor

#okay cool but i’m not #why would you do that #the beatles

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Paul McCartney, Beatles Anthology

#i’m so normal! (THE BRACELET THE BRACELET THE BRACELET THE BRACELET) #paul mccartney #the beatles #now and then #anthology

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Welcome to the McLennon Multiverse

#this is the beatles fandom version of the pedro pascal edit #if u cut me open i bleed this video #an iconic fav #paul mccartney #john lennon #mclennon

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NOW AND THEN handwritten lyrics

#the ‘im still in love with you’ in johns handwriting always always always gets me #paul needs a tumblr account stat #imagine finding out lore on ur best friend/boyfriend/celebrity crush thru tumblr like this he needs that experience #sean can teach him he’s been here #john lennon #the beatles

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The fact that Paul is so consistent, so unyielding in his love for John even after all these years, is what makes all of this so absolutely gut wrenching. That John: ever insecure, oh-so tortured and isolated, so sure of his unlovability - found such a gentle, strong-willed, and steady love in Paul is what makes their story the most compelling and important love story in all of music.

These two men fell in love with each other, found a home in each others hearts when the world was a cruel and scary place to be. Their friendship brought forth the absolute best parts of themselves, ultimately resulting in some of the most honest, most devastatingly beautiful music this century has ever seen.

The way in which their story is cut short, ending with brutal grief and loss, just twists the knife even further. These men, who spent their entire adult lives defined by their relationship and collaboration, who were moving through what should have been the first of many conflicts in their partnership, were robbed of any opportunity to make up and start again. The tragic reality of their unfinished, unrequited, unresolved love story is enough to shatter our hearts.

Their story is a story of fate, of poetry, of signs and of love. We know their story because it is our story. It reflects life: the highs, the lows, the love, the loss… it’s all there. It’s why I have been in love with this band for my entire life, it’s why I continue to fall in love with them over and over and over again.

God Bless Lennon/McCartney. God bless The Beatles. Nothing compares.

#just said ‘write a fic pls’ to one of my favorite fic writers without knowing it stay winning #I READ THE REPLY AND IT ALL MADE SENSE MY MOMENT OF CLARITY

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Ian Leslie thank you for being an I Know (I Know) truther:

"Beatles songs still speak to us so directly because they are vehicles for the transmission of feelings too powerful for normal speech. Mr. Lennon and Mr. McCartney were intense young men who grew up in an era before men were encouraged to speak about their feelings, either in therapy or to one another. They gained their emotional education from music, especially the music of Black artists like Smokey Robinson, Arthur Alexander and the Shirelles. Almost everything they felt — and they felt a lot — was poured into music, including their feelings about each other."

"In 'I Know (I Know),' Mr. Lennon sings, 'Today, I love you more than yesterday,' over a riff based on their last direct songwriting collaboration, 'I’ve Got a Feeling.'"

x

#NYT IS A BELIEBER GUYS OMFG #MCLENNON RENAISSANCE

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The fact that Paul is so consistent, so unyielding in his love for John even after all these years, is what makes all of this so absolutely gut wrenching. That John: ever insecure, oh-so tortured and isolated, so sure of his unlovability - found such a gentle, strong-willed, and steady love in Paul is what makes their story the most compelling and important love story in all of music.

These two men fell in love with each other, found a home in each others hearts when the world was a cruel and scary place to be. Their friendship brought forth the absolute best parts of themselves, ultimately resulting in some of the most honest, most devastatingly beautiful music this century has ever seen.

The way in which their story is cut short, ending with brutal grief and loss, just twists the knife even further. These men, who spent their entire adult lives defined by their relationship and collaboration, who were moving through what should have been the first of many conflicts in their partnership, were robbed of any opportunity to make up and start again. The tragic reality of their unfinished, unrequited, unresolved love story is enough to shatter our hearts.

Their story is a story of fate, of poetry, of signs and of love. We know their story because it is our story. It reflects life: the highs, the lows, the love, the loss… it’s all there. It’s why I have been in love with this band for my entire life, it’s why I continue to fall in love with them over and over and over again.

God Bless Lennon/McCartney. God bless The Beatles. Nothing compares.

#“if we could start again”’ AND THEY COULDNT. #they’re literally something out of a shakespeare play and i hate them for it #this post is so wonderfully written too write a fic PLS #the beatles #paul mccartney #john lennon #mclennon

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Im back and more neurotic than ever, not clickbait

PAULS WEARING THE ID BRACELET THAT JOHN LIKELY GOT FOR HIM WHEN THE BAND MET UP TOGETHER AGAIN CHRISTT IM SO NORMAL IM SO NORMAL

in my mind i think this was pauls way of having John there with them physically in some sense. He’s wearing a part of him, a part of THEM while working on this song so it really is like it’s all 4 beatles present and together again.

Another part about the documentary that had me FEELING THINGS was hearing johns isolated vocals and having it hit you that wowza thats john lennon and then Paul closing out the documentary by saying “let me just hear john again” god he loves him so much

#the beatles #john lennon #paul mccartney #now and then #george harrison #ringo starr #mclennon #id bracelet

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Lords and Ladies, my official breakdown of Now and Then and Thots in general that no one asked for

The everything about this starting from the songs origin (or how paul received it rather) blows my mind. It had “for paul” written on it, not for yoko or sean or julian or cynthia but paul. that was the last gift from john he got

You can tell that Paul has thought about this song biweekly since 1980

It’s Johns final message to Paul and The Beatles’ final message to its fanbase OUCH

The finality of it all REALLY gets to me sorry to be upset on main guys

John and Paul harmonizing for the first time in almost 70 years and it’s over the lines “know i love you” “i miss you” “i want you to be there for me”

The original Now and Then is haunting and so melancholy and our new version is more reminiscent to me but they’re both full of longing and yearning and they want each other so bad

George’s guitar 🥹 you can tell Paul wanted to pay tribute to not just John but George too

More on george because i feel like we aren’t talking about him enough ! Ofc it’s a John song but ALL THE BEATLES are on it and it’s like them refined. idk to me it feels like this is something we would’ve gotten in a world where George and John are both still alive and they wanted to all make one final song together

I really feel like this will be the catalyst for Paul to open up to the public more about the true nature of his feeling for John, it’s so intense and this is the first time we’ve witnessed him reminisce on John in such a raw way

#i’m so neurotic about them #my doctor diagnosed me as borderline acoustic #the beatles #john lennon #paul mccartney #mclennon #now and then #lennon mccartney

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NOW AND THEN DROPPED NO ONE TALK TO ME EVER AGAIN

#i have so many thoughts #i’ll make an official post picking apart the entire thing later the wound is fresh rn #the beatles #john lennon #paul mccartney #now and then #mclennon #i listened to it 7 minutes ago in a portable my heart hurts #IM IN PAIN

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confirmed

#and he would say ‘sigh’ outloud too the dramatic mf #this is live footage of paul after yoko dies #lore drop w paul #i feel like that instance is gonna be very ‘shit talking w ur wine aunt over brunch’ #paul mccartney #the beatles #john lennon #mclennon

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I swear, real Paul McCartney would say that.

#paul beat the allegations mccartney #the alle gay tions! #okay i’m sorry i’ll go home #mclennon #paul mccartney #the beatles

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A definitive list of all the Queen songs that, if played in season three of good omens, will make me go at my eyeballs with a grapefruit spoon (w little to no explanation)

Friends will be friends (it’s so melancholy it gives me the morbs and i thought of making this list BC of this song..just ouch)

Love of my life (i mean come the fuck on “when i grow older i will be there by your side” god i can just IMAGINE it coming on in the bentley and crowley flips his shit)

Who wants to live forever (“nothing lasts forever” and suddenly i have a death wish)

Spread your wings (WING IMAGERY? “spread your wings and fly away” aka join heaven i am numb)

good old fashioned lover boy (every season this song digs its heel deeper into my solar plexus, neil will undoubtedly make it worse w season 3)

‘39 (it’s abt space and stars and and and)

dear friends (“so dear friends your love is gone” i will walk right up to Big Good Omens LLC and have a few choice words for whoever did this to me)

Too much love will kill you (“i’ve been facing this alone for far too long” that line belongs in the synopsis of the show wtf)

Feel free to add to the list :)

#PREV YESSSSSS #OR SOMEBODY TO LOVE (i just want to see crowley walking on beat to the song i have a problem)

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A definitive list of all the Queen songs that, if played in season three of good omens, will make me go at my eyeballs with a grapefruit spoon (w little to no explanation)

Friends will be friends (it’s so melancholy it gives me the morbs and i thought of making this list BC of this song..just ouch)

Love of my life (i mean come the fuck on “when i grow older i will be there by your side” god i can just IMAGINE it coming on in the bentley and crowley flips his shit)

Who wants to live forever (“nothing lasts forever” and suddenly i have a death wish)

Spread your wings (WING IMAGERY? “spread your wings and fly away” aka join heaven i am numb)

good old fashioned lover boy (every season this song digs its heel deeper into my solar plexus, neil will undoubtedly make it worse w season 3)

‘39 (it’s abt space and stars and and and)

dear friends (“so dear friends your love is gone” i will walk right up to Big Good Omens LLC and have a few choice words for whoever did this to me)

Too much love will kill you (“i’ve been facing this alone for far too long” that line belongs in the synopsis of the show wtf)

Feel free to add to the list :)

#my qualifications are that my queen phase was rebirthed the second i watched good omens and the brain rot is eating away at me #so here’s this i hate to love them : #good omens #queen band #queen #aziraphale #crowley #crowly x aziraphale #aziracrow