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2003: The Quarrymen talk about Paul and the immediate influence he had on the group.
LEN: I think he was, uh, he was quite a clever lad actually. Quite good, you know, at languages and maths and stuff, he was quite bright. I think he was under an obligation if you’d like to his father Jim in a lot of ways to do well at school, because his mum passed away fairly quickly. So Jim wanted him to do well and I think he felt obligated to progress in school.
COLIN: Paul would have allowed John to feel that he was the boss anyway. Paul wouldn’t have gotten head to head with John, but Paul would have got his own way if you’d like, carefully, by maneuvering and perhaps letting John think it was his idea. I think that’s the way Paul was.
LEN: I think it was part of his characteristic, really. Part of his characteristic. You know, when we started off as The Quarrymen, we were a gang of scruffs, we could dress whatwe’d like, checked shirts, anything we would like. But I’m pretty sure it was Paul’s idea that one night at Clubmoor we dressed a bit smarter – you know, the white coats and the black ties. I think – it wouldn’t be John’s idea. John was more interested in the music and the entertainment. “We can dress what we like as long as we’re enjoying ourselves.” But I think Paul was more… I don’t know. Image-minded, you know. Worried more about the image.
COLIN: Paul was very much the diplomat. He would never get a quick answer off Paul. He would always think about what was the right answer; not what the answer should’ve been, but perhaps what you wanted to hear.
She is the singer of the touching version in beatles '64
Paul loves parkour doesn't he?
The Beatles being helped to climb over their car to avoid fans waiting outside the Futurist Theatre, Scarborough, 9 August 1964
and they started making out
The Beatles on The Morecambe And Wise Show. Filmed 2nd December 1963, aired 18th April 1964 (part 1, 2, 3)
One of them says, “It’s nice out, isn’t it?”
So the other one says, “Yes, I’ll take mine out too”
mad day out!! 🎶☀️
reference image :°D
It's clearly an anticipation of Get Back
A healthy and balanced diet of toast and more toast
His real love is the radio, we can't really understand the excitement of silent generation
Paul McCartney: Transistor Sister
Paul McCartney and his beloved transistor radio, New York, February 1964
They both have fantastic shoes but Paulie wins
Just look at those girly sandals Paul’s wearing.
Paul McCartney in Beatles '64 (2024)
George Harrison and Paul McCartney recording the backing vocals for "Octopus' Garden" at Abbey Road Studios, July 17, 1969🎸🎸🎸
📸Linda McCartney
Via @thefab4archive on Instagram🎸
Paul McCartney and George Harrison in Melbourne (June 1964)
This is, by no means, original thought. However, after the release of Beatles ‘64, I just want someone to make a Beatles film that is for us. Forget the mainstream and do what Cynthia said had never happened - people getting the emotion right instead of just the facts. The Beatles story isn’t a success story, it isn’t a rags to riches story, it isn’t an even a story about genius, it’s a story that has the power to change the world and one that will be told for ever. We are living in an era where we get to witness a myth being made and so in tribute to the oral tradition, we need to be the myth-makers. Someone needs to tell the story. I hope it will be Paul. I fear it won’t. Perhaps he can’t or shouldn’t, perhaps he won’t be believed. He definitely won’t be if everyone, including him, keeps recycling the same tropes. We know there’s no new stuff to be created, but there is a new light to be shed on what we know is there. This is beginning to sound a bit like the discovery of the Book of Mormon. No one needs another religion, but we do need is for someone to actually attempt to approach this seismic cultural event with an honest and open perspective.
Yoko allowed John to believe he was the genius. John’s canonisation (his manufactured image does him no favours) means that we can forget that Paul was the revered one in the 60s. He was the chosen one - in every way. John clocked it at their very first meeting.
“I half thought to myself, He’s as good as me, I’d been kingpin up to then. Now, I thought, if I take him on, what will happen?”- John
He took a risk, he made his choice and then never again believed in his own ultimate superiority. The story he’d told himself growing up, was that nobody was capable of spotting his genius because they were all below him. Surely a trauma response to being abandoned by his parents. Never could stand to be ignored, forever desperate to be seen and yet incapable of taking off the armour of cruelty. Look at me! Paul was the same, not armour but a wall of charm. Underneath John was soft and Paul is that almost impenetrable wall. They let each other in, and each betrayed the other. Those instincts of self-preservation that John spoke about.
Anyway, he took the chance on Paul, because he wanted to be somebody and Paul and him together made that a real possibility. Also, Paul was fucking hot and clever and talented. He was also a non-conforming weirdo who made everything look effortless and wouldn’t join John’s gang and wouldn’t let him lead. I wonder if this was Paul knowing, from the first moment of seeing John as was then confirmed by subsequent sightings and (I suspect) recces, strategically carried out to observe John (oh that bus worship carries some significance beyond an appreciation for public transport), that he knew how to handle John. Handle and manage John, in order to make him his very own.
(Is it him? Does it matter, because Paul has told us he “noticed” John many times, even before the chocolate bar.)
But, all the Paul adulation, especially John’s own uncontrollable, unconditional veneration, got to be too much. He couldn’t keep his jealousy in check. No quantity of material objects, women, money, food, fame soothed the ache for long enough. He thought Yoko, and because I am sure this is what Yoko promised him, was the only person who would always be in awe of him. She wasn’t, and the really tragic part is that Paul was from the jump, he still is and his faith never waivered.
If only they’d been able to maintain the connection and never lose the ability to read each other’s minds.
They burned too brightly. They loved too hard.
George, Paul, and John with kisses (1965)
John and Paul in Midas Man part 3
Harrison Family Get-together
Circa February/March 1967 - Personal photos from Pauline Harrison’s family photo album all taken at the Liverpool home of Peter and Pauline Harrison. Pattie & George visited with his parents Harold & Louise and brother Peter and his wife Pauline for a family get-together. The photos were among several that Pauline Harrison gave to Pat Kinzer for her “Official George Harrison Fan Club” that were later sold thru Beatles’ fanzines “The Harrison Alliance” and “With A Little Help From My Friends”. The exact date of the photos or the special occasion being celebrated is unknown. Possible dates may be George’s 24th birthday (February 25th) since George is holding a card in one of the photos, or Louise Harrison’s 56th birthday (March 10th) since she seems like the center of attention in the family group photo?
Source of the scans and extensive retouching is the Something About Pattie Boyd group at Yahoo!
Those boys who are wearing their hair long are saying no to the masculine mystique. They are saying no to that brutal, sadistic, tight-lipped, crew-cut, you know, Prussian… big-muscle, you know, Ernest Hemingway… kill bears when there are no bears to kill and napalm all the children in Vietnam and Cambodia to prove that I’m a man, you know and be dominant and superior to everyone concerned and never show any softness. Well, these boys that are wearing their hair long are saying, ‘No… I don’t have to be all that crew-cut and tight-lipped, I don’t have to be dominant and superior to anyone, I don’t have to have big muscles because there aren’t any bears to kill. I don’t have to, you know, kill anybody to prove anything. I can be tender, and I can be sensitive, and I can be compassionate… and I can admit sometimes that I’m afraid, and I can even cry, and I am a man… and I am my own man’. And that man, who is strong enough to be gentle… that is a new man.
Feminist pioneer Betty Friedan talking about The Beatles in 1964, a year after publishing her book The Feminine Mystique. Featured in Beatles ‘64
Honestly is such a good song and her voice is so gentle and warm
The McLennon song that ruined my day, now here to ruin yours
Grief is a crazy crazy beast
Just what is with the tension between John and Paul at the Plaza?
Paul not making eye contact with John as he walks past
John whistling in response because he, as we all know, doesn't care
George and Ringo's smiles immediately dropping when they see John come over
John barely able to raise a smile at Ringo's joke
What is going on?!
Weird behaviour between John Lennon and Paul McCartney at the Plaza Hotel, New York, February 1964 - part two (part one)
The Beatles leaving their suite at the New York Plaza, February 1964
I love the chaos of this scene. Ringo listening to their song on the radio. John calling Neil ‘Nell’. Paul and George being silly boys until John walks out and Paul’s brain grinds to a halt. Paul trying to finish his bit when his brain eventually comes back to life. Ringo strolling out half an hour after everyone else.
Good times.
Slow-mo gif to appreciate the emotional journey that Paul goes on…
More weird behaviour here
John Lennon listening to Please Please Me on the radio in New York, February 1964
George
Bye George
Love you, George Harrison
Thank you George Harrison for bringing me and the rest of the world so much joy and peace with your music. It’s impossible to describe how much you have brought to this world. You’ll always be remembered, and always be missed. I know your in heaven at complete peace now. I love you George. ❤️
fun doodles tonight of mmt wizards and some modern au musings........
"Sing us a song, you're the piano man
Sing us a song tonight
Well, we're all in the mood for a melody
And you've got us feelin' alright"
this took so long to restore oh my god.. finally,,, total time was 8 hours and 46 mins
