Paul McCartney & John Lennon photographed by fan Denise Werneck leaving the EMI Studios, on March 6, 1967
This hurts my heart.
What must it have been like to become the most desired, admired, untouchable pinnacles of existence that they became together? To do it alone, incredible. To do it with your, as big a weirdo as you, best friend…intoxicating.
Then to lose it. Fuck a duck.
Here, there and everywhere.
ohhhh judas betrayed jesus with a kiss. ok i’ll do u one better. john lennon and paul mccartney morphed into one horrible tragic being that transformed western culture as we know it. paul has just been nominated for a grammy for a song that john wrote before he was murdered over forty years ago. john wanted a divorce and paul wanted to kill himself. they grew up together. they turned into each other. they weren’t gay they were something much much worse and whatever it was still lives and breathes in practically every song you’ve ever listened to. also they masturbated in the same room once or twice
Be in the British Invasion (The started it).
Play a stadium concert.
Ever record a music video.
Do a worldwide satellite broadcast.
Use feedback in a recording.
Use electric keyboard and synthesizers in songs.
Use sampling in their songs.
Use a sitar in popular music.
Have ALL members sing lead vocals.
Have a radio single go over the standard 2-3 minutes in length.
Have their drummer sit on a higher platform than the rest in concerts.
Have one song dissolve into another.
Make a concept album.
Hold the #1 spot on American and British charts simultaneously.
Debut in the top 10 on U.S charts.
Release an album with more than 10 songs.
Write more than half the songs in an album.
Use a harmonica in a rock single.
Star in a feature film.
Record sound in their song only a dog can hear.
Have their lyrics printed in the jacket of the record.
Release an album with a completely blank cover.
Use headphone monitors in the recording studio.
Use backwards vocals in recordings.
Use a full orchestra in popular music.
Use the guiro and claves in rock.
Do an album of all original songs.
Create experimental sounds in the studio.
Utilize psychedelic rock.
And the list goes on…
Shush.
— Paul, Evening Standard (April 21st, 1970) X
Why?
I had to add a few things.
Sources: ULM vol. 1
Paul McCartney & John Lennon 1968 Full Interview
ULM vol 5: Never Apart pt1/2
ULM vol 5: Never Apart pt 2/2
Paul McCartney suffering from a bad stomach virus during Beatles Interview
I'm sorry but I really don't remember where I got the discussion about an old Winch :( It was somewhere on tumblr.
Thx @genderlessginger for reminding me of Paul defending John in this 1966 interview! <3
It did turn out to be culture after all. Didn’t it?
He wasn’t kidding with that question, but no - you were just a good little band.
Changed the world with that good little band.