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This is what it's like to try to get me talking about non-Beatles music

#this is me LOL #the beatles #paul mccartney #wings

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Photos taken on the set of A Hard Days Night by Lord Christopher Thynne in the spring of 1964.

#paul is so femme coded I love him #look at his happy legs over the pond 🥹 #beatles pics #a hard day's night #1964

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John, Ringo and Paul looking out of the window at the Hotel Bayerischer Hof in Munich, 24 June 1966. Photo by Robert Whitaker. Scan from “Eight Days a Week” by Robert Whitaker and Marcus Hearn.

#my goodness #paul truly has the best ass #robert whitaker 📸 #beatles pics #1966

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“you’ll never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you” is john, george and ringo using mccartney-esque bass lines in all their post-beatles work

#lol #bless #it’s true #pennielane

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1967 - 1976

#my affection for this weirdo is endless #look at him he’s just so fucking CUTE #we all lovehate him just like john/george/ringo lovehate him #pm gifs #wings #hello goodbye

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#the underrated duo #I adore them #paul and george #mcharrison #beatles postcards #baby bugs

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come together, right now, over me

#come together #beatles lyrics #beatles pics #beatles edit

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Quote compilations

Because I cope with my Beatles feelings by collecting and organizing quotes in a big ass spreadsheet and I may as well post them here divided up by topic:

The breakup

Quotes from each member divided by year, showing it was never so cut and dry that Paul always wanted to stay in the Beatles and John/George always wanted out

John Lennon’s sexuality

Internalized homophobia, intentionally spreading rumours about being gay + people thinking he was joking (John Lennon invented queerbaiting in 1963 did you know?), revealing comments from John and others about his sexuality, replacing Paul with Yoko, jealousy over Paul, flirting with Paul

Quotes about the Lennon-Mccartney rivalry & John's insecurity

The ramifications of Yesterday, a fear of abandonment, ego death, and having a relentlessly productive, competitive soulmate

John not meaning what he says

"Yeah, I was lying" [laughs]

Paul hurting John

The extent to and ways in which John claimed Paul hurt him and Paul's struggle to understand wtf happened

Paul wrangling John

Paul understands the importance of public relations and affectionately straightening ties

Beatles defending each other

Only Beatles can talk shit about Beatles

Paul trying and sometimes failing to be chill about Yoko

WHO KNOWS, YOKO?

Just insane mclennon things

Shit where you're like "I can't believe that actually happened??" Often not in a good way

#mclennon #mclennon meta #mclennon masterpost #beatles breakup #john and yoko #john and paul #favorite post

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Roger McGough: Do you use a computer [to write]? Paul McCartney: Pencil and paper. I’m not a typist. Funnily enough, John became a red-hot typist towards the end of his life. He had always had this “Arts Correspondent in Kowloon” kind of dream. But for me it’s pencil and paper by the bed . . . those moments between falling asleep and just before waking are good. — Interview for the Telegraph, March 10th, 2001

#paul don’t mention john challenge (impossible) #John is forever a part of him and close to his heart #i love how much he loves him but it’s kind of sad 😭 #just makes me once again wish that john was still alive so he could turn that love inward #mclennon #pm quotes

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PAULIE 🤍🤍

#man of a thousand faces #darling boy of my heart #beautiful and wonderful and terrible #paul mccartney #pm pics

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Those John and Paul moments ... again … now as a video montage bc I’m obsessed

(Ready, Steady, Go rehearsals, 1963, full video here)

#for 23 years these two failed the go five seconds without thinking about each other challenge #mclennon #mclennon gifs #ready steady go #1963

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McCartney is like a quantum state that just collapses every time you try to look closer. I was so certain, 99% sure I told my Bookclub the other day, about mutual, two-sided McLennon. Now I’ve been marinating in McCartney more and…nah, nah, total collapse of belief. No uncertainty of poor John’s side and the breakup of the Beatles mind you! Lol…sad sack John is so obvious from every angle, I simply have no doubt. But McCartney…I don’t think he could actually do a secret affair. And he is just obnoxiously OBNOXIOUSLY high-functioning. The more I’m led to love him, the more I kinda want to hate him a bit for John’s sake.

John stewing in the Dakota with depressing Yoko…Paul setting up his recording studio on a yacht, loving his wife, traveling all over the globe collaborating musically, setting up one of the top selling bands of the 70s, having a perfect Scotland farm, taking the high road with not badmouthing John, basically setting up the entire modern indie folk aesthetic on his own, decades before it was picked up, so smiley, cultivating sequin blazers…fuck you Paul, fuck you

#I think it’s possible they did everything but penetrative sex #blowjobs are completely on the table #especially in paris #paul was 100% in love with john from day one #the thing is… paul needs to protect himself and rightfully so #so after the breakup he did make overtures to john when he felt safe to do so #‘’coming up’’ and ‘’silly love songs’’ and ‘’single pigeon’’ are all I LOVE YOU songs to john #john really hurt him to the point of suicidal depression #mister eternal optimism ‘’take a sad song and make it better’’ paul mccartney—suicidal DEPRESSION #it upsets me that people don’t talk about that enough #paul’s reaction to john wanting a divorce was catastrophic #the first love of his life was telling him he didn’t want him anymore #damn ​I’d want to die too! #pm psychology #mclennon

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the holy trinity of “ifs”

“And like, um, I can see that he’s just now suddenly changing his attitude, like he’s being – he’s treating me with respect. Not because it’s me – but because I belong to John. I hope that’s what it is, because that would be nice. And I feel like he’s my younger brother or something like that. I’m sure that if he had been a woman or something, he would have been a great threat – because there’s something definitely very strong between John and Paul.” – Yoko Ono, 1968 (audio source)

“It’s a plus, it’s not a minus. The plus is that your best friend, also, can hold you without… I mean, I’m not a homosexual, or we could have had a homosexual relationship and maybe that would have satisfied it, with working with other male artists. [faltering] An artist – it’s more – it’s much better to be working with another artist of the same energy, and that’s why there’s always been Beatles or Marx Brothers or men, together. Because it’s alright for them to work together or whatever it is. It’s the same except that we sleep together, you know? I mean, not counting love and all the things on the side, just as a working relationship with her, it has all the benefits of working with another male artist and all the joint inspiration, and then we can hold hands too, right?” – John Lennon, 1972 (audio source)

“I had signs that the group was gonna break up, because… I mean, I think really what it was, really all that happened was that John fell in love. With Yoko. And so, with such a powerful alliance like that, it was difficult for him to still be seeing me. It was as if I was another girlfriend, almost. Our relationship was a strong relationship. And if he was to start a new relationship, he had to put this other one away. And I understood that. I mean, I couldn’t stand in the way of someone who’d fallen in love. You can’t say, “Who’s this?” You can’t really do that. If I was a girl, maybe I could go out and… But you know I mean in this case I just sort of said, right – I mean, I didn’t say anything, but I could see that was the way it was going to go, and that Yoko would be very sort of powerful for him.” – Paul McCartney, 1985 (video source)

#prev tags #it seemed to me that paul might have been wholly and with full self-knowledge in love with john #but with a steely resolve never to make himself vulnerable #or to get arrested and ruin the band #and for john who i don’t believe was straight #paul may have been his untouchable stable genius husband #and he couldn’t risk spoiling that with his self hating gay sex needs #both locking it all inside apart from um all the yearning love songs er #mclennon #mclennon meta #mclennon quotes #yoko ono

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studies

#beatles fanart #mclennon #john paul george

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I’m not sorry. Paul was a positive stabilizing influence on John for many years. Pete Shotton said if it weren’t for John meeting Paul and having Paul in his life when Julia died, he’s 100% sure John would have been dead or rotting in jail by age 19. Paul being John’s close friend and music partner gave John purpose, motivation, companionship, confidence, and helped John grow even more musically talented than he already was.

John was a lovable genius but he also had serious behavior issues that caused a lot of harm to those around him. We could discuss for years about the psychology behind why he did the things he did but the point is he did some *awful* things and got away with it because he’s John Lennon and was murdered tragically.

Paul’s a very flawed human but so is literally everyone in the Beatles story. Judging a guy for making some bad decisions in his early-mid 20’s and holding him to some ludicrously high standard for his entire life when nobody else gets such treatment is ridiculous. Asking a 25-year old who is is the epitome of “autistic weird af genius” to perfectly navigate human relationships is asking for the moon. Were you perfect at 25? Were any of us? His love for John was intense and unconditional—even when John emotionally abused the shit out of him and intentionally hurt him. Paul hurt John too but the biggest slights were only in response to John intentionally hurting him first to get a reaction. Paul had every right to take himself out of that toxic equation and choose Linda over John, even if it meant the Beatles had to breakup.

John and Paul had their issues but they were genius children who accidentally fell in love living in a weird time with tons of unresolved trauma and mental health issues and were exposed to levels of fame and batshit craziness we cannot comprehend. I know John would say that meeting Paul was one of the greatest things that ever happened to him, and despite everything he loved and missed Paul until the day he died. You don’t love someone THAT MUCH just to be miserable. John fell for Paul because Paul was obviously fucking worth it.

Sometimes I feel so sorry John fell for Paul.

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John Lennon, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr during rehearsals for The Beatles' first appearance on Ready, Steady, Go, 4th October 1963. Part 1 (part 2, part 3, part 4)

With thanks to @i-am-the-oyster for bringing this video to my attention!

#my heart 🥹 #oh this is incredibly soft #john and paul so in love and ringo so happy for them #everyone so fresh faced and bright and happy with their new lives #also… #paul can’t wink and it’s hilarious 😂 #beatles gifs #ready steady go #mclennon #1963

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Paul McCartney singing ‘And I Love Her’ in A Hard Day’s Night (1964)

Here you go @ljblueteak !

#THE SMIRK 🥵 #that’s my boy #pm gifs #and I love her #a hard day's night #1964