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*blows kiss to the sky* for Buddy Holly

“Buddy Holly, yeah.‘That’ll Be The Day’ was the killer with him. The good thing was anyone who wore glasses, like John, could hold their head up high when Buddy came out. Till then you wouldn’t be seen dead in glasses. John used to go round bumping into lampposts. But when Buddy came out it was ‘Sure! Pop them on.’ The big attraction as well with Buddy was that he wrote his own stuff. Whereas Elvis didn’t. Jerry Lee did, a lot of it, but Buddy seemed to write all his own stuff and it was three chords. For people looking at this idea of writing our own stuff, which we were starting to do, the three-chord idea was great, cos we didn’t know more than four or five. We got into Buddy and his songs were easy to learn: ‘Rave On’, ‘Think It Over’, ‘Listen To Me’, ‘Words of Love’, ‘I’m Gonna Love You Too’, ‘That’ll Be The Day’, ‘Oh Boy!’, ‘Peggy Sue’, ‘Maybe Baby’, we knew all of them. We did them at a talent contest in Manchester, only three of us and John didn’t have a guitar … That’s right, he borrowed one, don’t think he gave it back either. But that’s another story. Great days, cos obviously the excitement is mixed with your teenage-ness, which is exciting anyway. Going to Manchester for a talent contest, the nerves of it, and then the relief, and then the piss-off once you lost. We lost every bloody talent contest we ever went in. Never came anywhere.”

— Conversations with McCartney Paul Du Noyer. 

circa 1950s, hangin @ john’s house

stuart: i know nobody asked for my advice-

paul: and yet you’re talking

stuart: -but i agree with paul

paul: let’s hear him out

paul and john: *play fighting*

paul: *takes john's glasses off*

john (panicking): without my glasses i feel naked!

“Lennon radiated a life-force that turned heads everywhere: he was wickedly funny and fast with it, he was abrasive, incisive and devastatingly rude, and he was musical, literate, and beguilingly creative.”

roger: *introducing ‘I’m In Love With My Car’*

everyone in the band:

do you know a really british thing that makes me bloody weak?

when guys wear those pinky rings like they are some kind of XIX century aristocrat’s descendant

visual proof:

Alex Turner. Ringo Starr. Brian May.

The Bttf movies are just Doc asking Marty “did you just mess up the space-time continuum” and Marty being like “it was an accident :)”

ringo’s ‘rock on george’ in honey don’t. that’s it, that’s the post