#my old friend

[thecoleopterawithana]

Now and Then

1977

Now and Then: I know it's true / It's all because of you

And if I make it through / It's all because of you / And now and then / If we must start again / Well, we will know for sure / That I love you

I don't wanna lose you, oh no / Abuse you or confuse you / Oh no, no, sweet darlin' / But if you have to go away / If you have to go, well you the reason [?]

Now and then / I miss you / Oh, now and then / I want you to return to me / 'Til you return to me / I know it's true / It's all because of you / And if you go away / I know you could never stay

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1978

Love Awake: Love awake to the day / When we can make our love awake / Lord knows we need it any time we can get it / But we forget it every now and then / But if you don't feel it, later on, you'll regret it / And if we let it we could set it free, you and me

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1981

My Old Friend: If I told you how I feel / Oh, it wouldn’t sound so real / ‘Cause emotions, they are just now settin’ in / But it sure is great to know / That wherever we may go / We can always be the best of friends

My old friend, / Thanks for inviting me in / My old friend, / May this goodbye never mean the end / If we never meet again this side of life / In a little while, over yonder, / Where it’s peace and quiet / My old friend, / Won’t you think about me every now and then

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Well, it was something that I’ll never live long enough to forget. It happened in February of 1981 and as the world all knows, and never will forget, in December of 1980 when John Lennon was taken away from us, and so this was the following year, in February. I wrote the song about and for Paul McCartney. I did it because he was so kind to invite me down to this beautiful island of Montserrat with Stevie Wonder. Ringo was there, just had a wonderful time. I flew down by myself. Paul and Linda met me with a jeep on the (center) airfield with a little single engine plane and took me across the mountains we were like kids again, and it was a wonderful time, and I wanted to do… I didn’t want to cry when I left after staying down there, and I’m a big crybaby! If something moves me, I’ll just choke up… I talk about it. I thought that would happen, so the night before, I just wrote how I felt on the isle of Montserrat on every shell, forget a country boy with a guitar and a song you invited me, and you treated me like kin, and you’ve given me a reason to go on. So my old friend, think about me every now and then. I sang it for Paul, at about 10:00 the next morning. I was scheduled to leave flying again in the little single engine aircraft to the island of Antigua where I was flying commercial back to Atlanta and on to Nashville and back to Jackson, where I live here. I sang it, he said “Carl, it’s beautiful… would you sing it again?” and I said. “Sure, man.” He said “wait just a minute,” and he got Linda in there, and they sat on the floor, I sat on his old Fender twin reverb amplifier, with a guitar, I did however notice a microphone over there. I didn’t pay that much attention to it, but George Martin recorded it and after I finished singing the song to Paul, he was crying, tears were rolling down his pretty cheeks, and they’re pretty to me just like they are to the rest of the world. I think he’s a very handsome boy and always did. He’s even handsomer when he’s crying. And Linda said, “Carl, thank you so much.” I said, “Linda, I’m sorry… I didn’t mean to make you cry.” She said, “But he’s crying and he needed to. He hasn’t been able to really break down since that happened to John.” I mean he stepped outside of the room, out by the pool, and he just had his handkerchief out, and he was going at it. And she put her arm around me and said, “But how did you know?” I said, “Know what, Linda? I don’t know what you’re talking about?” She said “There’s two people in the world that know what John Lennon said to Paul, the last thing he said to him. Me and Paul are the only two that know that, but now there’s three and one of you… you know it. I said, “Girl, you’re freaking me out! I don’t know what you’re talking about!” She said the last words that John Lennon said to Paul in the hallway of the Dakota building were… he patted him on the shoulder, and said, ‘Think about me every now and then, old friend.’ Q: That’s just amazing… And she said, here you are, that’s what you just sang, and how did you know? And I said I didn’t know it, gosh, I didn’t know it. But McCartney really feels that Lennon sent me that song, he really does.

— Carl Perkins, interviewed for Goldmine (September 26, 1986).

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1994

Paul had gone to Yoko to ask if she had any of John’s songs kicking around. The deal was that Paul would induct John into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in return. Yoko’s a generous person in that respect, so she actually gave him three songs – 'Free As A Bird' and 'Real Love' were worked up and released, the last one wasn’t.

— Source close to the Anthology project, quoted in the Sunday Express (April 29, 2007).

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1995

It was one day – one afternoon, really – messing with it. The song had a chorus but is almost totally lacking in verses. We did the backing track, a rough go that we really didn’t finish. It was sort of a bluesy sort of ballad, I suppose, in A minor. It was a very sweet song. I liked it a lot. Should it ever be completed it would probably end up as either ‘Now And Then’ or ‘Miss You’. I wished we could have finished it.

— Jeff Lynne, quoted in the Sunday Express (April 29, 2007).

It didn’t have a very good title, it needed a bit of reworking, but it had a beautiful verse and it had John singing it. [But] George didn’t like it. The Beatles being a democracy, we didn’t do it.

— Paul McCartney, interviewed for Q Magazine (November 2006).

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2007

There are a couple of things which may surface at some point. You see, with the Beatles, there’s always a surprise somewhere along the line. We did ‘Free As A Bird’ and ‘Real Love’, those two songs of John’s, and that was very exciting, very moving for me and very comfortable having his voice in my headphones in the studio again. And there was a third track, another song we had our eyes on called ‘Now And Then’. l actually wanted to do it on Anthology 3, but we didn’t all agree. But things change and the thing is that it might not go away. There was only one of us who didn’t want to do it. lt would have meant a lot of hard work, the song would have needed a lot of re-writing and people would have had to be very patient with us. But there are these one or two things lurking in the bushes. The Beatles might just raise their ugly little heads again…

— Paul McCartney, quoted in the Sunday Express (April 29, 2007).

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2012

And there was another one we started working on, but George went off it. We were like, ‘No George, this is John’. He said, ‘It’s still rubbish’. ‘Ok, then’. So that one is still lingering around. I’m gonna nick it with Jeff and do it. Finish it, one of these days.

— Paul McCartney, interviewed for the “Mr Blue Sky: The Story of Jeff Lynne & ELO” documentary (2012).

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2018

Get Enough: It was a time when we walked by the docks / I told you, "I need you all of my life" / And watching the tugs rolling by together / Do you remember? / Do you remember the lights on the shore? / How they reflected the rain on the road? / I believed that you love me alone / It was real / Do you remember? / Now and then I see your face / I've been wanting a lovin’ embrace / I've been looking for love, but it gets me nowhere / Oh, yeah, yeah

Get enough, get enough, get enough of (Your love) (x2) / I can't get enough of / Of you

It was a time we were all full of hope / Saw the future burning bright / As we watched the moon rollin’ out to sea / Do you remember? / But those days are erased from my mind / Yeah, I've left all those old days behind / But still I remember your face forever, forever

.

If I'm going to see a face in a painting, it's highly likely to be his.

— Paul McCartney, interviewed by Diane Sawyer for ABC News (November 2, 2000).

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2022

And then 'Now and Then’ just kind of languished in a cupboard and we didn’t do anything with it. I kept saying, “You know, maybe we should do something with this, seems a bit—” “Hm, I don’t know…” There wasn’t a great desire to do anything with it. So it hung around for a while. Years! And every so often, I’d kind of go to the cupboard and think, “There’s a new song in there! We should do it! We gotta do it!” But it’d go back in the cupboard.

— Paul McCartney, in BBC Sounds Eras: The Beatles (November 2, 2023).

I got a phone call from Paul saying, “Is it possible to use that [MAL] technology for another project I’ve been thinking about? […] Would it be possible to take John’s vocal and clean it up and get rid of everything else? Because that would allow us to finish this Beatles song.” And absolutely, it didn’t take me more than about a second to get back to him and say, “Of course we can do it!”

— Peter Jackson, in BBC Sounds Eras: The Beatles (November 2, 2023).

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2023

Now and Then: I know it’s true / It’s all because of you / And if I make it through / It’s all because of you

And now and then / If we must start again / Well we will know for sure / That I will love you

Now and then / I miss you / Oh now and then / I want you to be there for me / Always to return to me

I know it’s true / It’s all because of you / And if you go away / I know you’ll never stay

Now and then / I miss you / Oh now and then / I want you to be there for me

I know it’s true / It’s all because of you / And if I make it through / It’s all because of you

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I do feel as though ‘Now and Then’ is a love letter to Paul written by John. I mean, I've never really asked Paul about it, and I'm not sure whether Paul would say, ‘Oh, that's definitely it,' because he wouldn't want to second guess John. But that's the sense I get. And I get the feeling that's why Paul was so determined to finish it.

— Giles Martin, interviewed for PEOPLE magazine (October 26, 2023).

When you say you enjoy 'Now and Then', that’s really nice, because that’s why we do it. We do it so people can listen to stuff and not just hear it. 'Now and Then' sounds like a love song. It sounds like a song that John wrote for Paul, and the other Beatles: “I miss you/ Now and then.” It sounds like Paul has gone there, which I think he did. You know, no one told Paul to go and do it, and Paul didn’t go, This would be a great exercise for the Red and Blue Album. He was at home in the studio. He dug on the record and started working on it, because it’s his mate. And he really misses John. I mean, that’s the truth. They broke up, and John died nine years later. It really isn’t very long.

— Giles Martin, interviewed for GRAMMYS (October 26, 2023).

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When I remember the Beatles, I remember the joy, the talent, the humor, the love. And I think, if people remembered us for that — for those things — I’d be very happy.

— Paul McCartney, in BBC Sounds Eras: The Beatles (November 2, 2023).

#(I just wanted to gather it all in one place) #Now and Then #The Beatles #John Lennon #Paul McCartney #Love Awake #My Old Friend #Get Enough #the person I actually picked as my partner #then you were here today #For you were in my song #Compilation #my stuff #That Paul and John business

[puppycheesecake]

No more Fallout for me. ( ╯︿╰ ) New update went and broke my whole damn game.

#hello ce-34878-0 error #my old friend #sigh #there goes...a whole lotta wasted hours #damn I had my settlements looking so good too T_T

[1-1-s1ay-2-2]

The Slay~Method | Explained 💜

Amazingly, I've been blessed with being surrounded by the emotionally-unavailable type my entire life.

Family, friends, lovers, husbands...you name it, if I knew them, they were emotionally unavailable. I guess it was just me. I was supposed to have been born a rock, and so, ya know, I was seemingly born into a lifepath of a human -- which is not a rock -- but people still mistook me for one...and so things tended to run a little cold around me.

So, do you know how I've coped and found the "silver lining" throughout my life with all these chilly-azz people...?

I created fantasy worlds, a specific fantasy world...Pug...where there is warmth and love and emotional openness and understanding and warmth of heart and warmth of spirit and soul, and a lot of duckin' smiling and laughing and WARMTH!...did I say warmth?

Yes, so much warmth that you will need a frosted, wine glass to hold it...and warmth that is not like the brutally bitter cold I've always known. Warmth, so much warmth that it makes me feel nice and toasty, nice and cozy just imagining it. Better than reality indeed.

Even if I had to create a world with the kind of "warmth" I craved, even if that's really what it takes...then it shall be done. And that's how you deal with being dealt a shizzy hand...you make the best of it by using what makes you weak as a strength.

#hello again silver lining #my old friend #explained

[foryouwereinmysong]

Think of me every now and then, my old friend

So, I got an ask this weekend about Carl Perkin's story about his song My Old Friend and Paul's reaction to it, but I accidentally deleted it – so sorry!! I think it was about whether or not I believe the whole thing about John's last words. I have to say that I find this really hard to answer. I don't really see a reason for Carl Perkins to lie ... It would be weird for him to make up such an emotional story as he was an accomplished artist whom Paul had been a long time admirer of. Like what does he gain from that? But the story also seems too magical to be true, if you get what I mean. Carl Perkins certainly didn't know about John's song Now and Then, but still that's such a weird coincidence ... but then again the last track The Beatles recorded together was The End and John wrote Life begins at 40, so what actually is coincidence when it comes to The Beatles ... I am not that familiar with Carl Perkins as a person, so I don't want to draw to many conclusions, but I get the vibe that he really loved to tell stories and had quite the poetic mindset... maybe there was a bit of romanticizing going on, but the essence of the story is true? Paul certainly never made a move to correct it, either because he didn't want to contradict his friend/idol or because it is somewhat true ... But ALSO I never saw a version of the interview in which Carl Perkins actually says himself that Linda told him John's last words. Just the part about the crying and that Linda said Carl helped Paul get in touch with his emotions. So there's also the possibility that that part was made up afterwards by someone ... WELL, I'm curious what you think –

If you need a reminder, here's the whole story:

#now and then #carl perkins #paul mccartney #john lennon #the beatles #my old friend #linda mccartney

[the-cookie-of-doom]

Glad you had fun! where is the choker from? bc I want one

Aksjdgakdhs okay. Confession time… I got this choker from Spencer’s like 10 years ago, when I was in high school. I have no idea how it’s survived this long tbh, but I randomly found it in a box, leather was all bent out of shape, it’s honestly terrible quality. But it also fits like a dream and I don’t notice when I’m wearing it.

Unfortunately they don’t sell it anymore (I just checked), but it’s a pretty typical style, so you should be able to find something really similar on Amazon or at hot topic!

#cookie speaks #I hadn’t worn this thing in years #then randomly found it again #my old friend

[skirino]

Mercury descubre al Kirino curioseando en el terreno del palacio imperial.

' en mi defensa... necesitaba un baño. ' miente con el clásico cliché de las películas, consciente de lo absurda que se escuchaba aquella mentira mal elaborada. con una sonrisa presionando por salir a la luz descubre que no puede mantener la seriedad por mucho tiempo. ' vale, vale, está bien, quizá estaba por primera aprueba ese dicho de la curiosidad mató al gato. pero no le digas a nadie. ' camina hacia él con ligereza en sus pies y curiosidad haciéndole brillar los ojos. ' ¿qué haces tú aquí? ¿las ratas ya se aburrieron de ti? ¿también buscabas un baño? ' hace un jueguito arqueando ambas cejas.

#mercury. #MY OLD FRIEND #MERCURY TTTTTT #lo tañé

[ao3feeddestiel]

my old friend

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/MrZHleN by LoversAntiquities On Christmas Eve, 2002, Dean banishes a ghost in the backwoods of Iowa—and finds more than he bargained for in a stranger he's never once met. Or, so he thinks. Words: 3539, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: M/M Characters: Dean Winchester, Castiel (Supernatural) Relationships: Castiel/Dean Winchester Additional Tags: Alternate Canon, Pre-Canon, Stanford Era (Supernatural), Castiel Loves Dean's Soul, Reincarnation, Snow, Christmas Eve, Past Castiel/Others technically?? read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/MrZHleN

#IFTTT #my old friend #LoversAntiquities

[oofuri2003]

omg my birthday was yesterday :o happy birthday !! - lesfujo

YIPPEEEE happy belated birthday fellow capricorn!! and thank you!!! <33

#lesfujo anon #my old friend

[jinkx-monsoon-season]

Overall, I really enjoy s5 so far, it’s very mindless and cartoony, and I get to see all these familiar attractive people. But I felt like spitting poison on main after the last episode, so I will.

like, the first thing in s5 that actually aroused some emotions in me were Hawk, Miguel and Demetri reacting to Robby at Miyagi Do. Like, Hawk is not stoked for obvious reasons, but Miguel just brushes him off and tells to chill the fuck out. Well, we know that Miguel has somewhat of a blind spot when it comes to whatever Johnny’s plans and aspirations are, but I’d like to think better of the dude.

it does get even more interesting later, when we find out that Robby a) has absolutely zero remorse or even notion that he did something wrong to Eli (that incredible ‘oh, if you’re still pissed because of the mohawk, then I’m like sorry’ apology), moreover, it’s b) “oh, if you’re still pissed because of the mohawk, then I’m sorry BUT..” Meaning, Robby did think beforehand about his future encounter with Hawk and this whole story, came to conclusion that the dude deserved it because of a, b, c reasons and came prepared with the list of those reasons. So much for Robby’s redemption arc. I’d be so pissed if Robby were my fave, because this is some Johnny Lawrence jerk without conscience behaviour.

The little shit is counting on fingers!

Finally, Demetri, of all people, just claps everybody’s shoulders and announces ‘you’re both ex-assholes’, but it’s all in the past. Like, Demetri. Eli’s best friend. You know, the one, who held Eli’s hand in the aftermath of the group assault, and who saw what it did to him. Brushing all that off as well. We were talking a lot about how we never got to see binary bros - or any of the kids, for that matter, standing up for their friends, going feral when a friend is in peril, no promised ‘friends watching each other’s back’ whatsoever. I honestly didn’t get my hopes up in this respect, but I certainly didn’t expect _this_.

Ugh!

And normal Demetri should have been like:

#s5 spoilers #cobra kai spoilers #eli moskowitz #miguel diaz #robby keene #also #ck negativity #my old friend

[jack-kelly-stole-my-gendah]

Sometimes I steal my friends papers and write the entirety of Santa fe on their paper

It really gets on their nerves

Idc tho it's funny

#newsies #newsies fandom #santa fe #my old friend #i cant spend my whole life dreamin #jack kelly

[i-am-the-oyster]

I have a theory about the whole Carl Perkins thing.

Carl says Paul reacted strongly to the phrase "now and then" in his song. What if Paul and John had discussed the demo that became Now And Then, and were planning on working on it in 1981?

Lots of people claim to know that there were arrangements in place for John and Paul to work together again. I can totally imagine Carl getting the wrong end of the stick, or his memory of the conversation morphing over time, or Paul/Linda never fully explaining.

#carl perkins #my old friend #now and then

[yes-i-would-like-to-be-stabbed]

A childhood friend

#art #plush #my old friend #my art #puppy

[nelalah]

Freedom is just another word for nothin' left to lose

Nothin', don't mean nothin' hon' if it ain't free, no-no

And feelin' good was easy, Lord, when he sang the blues

You know feelin' good was good enough for me and my Bobby McGee

#late nights #wildflowers #retro moodboard #darknees #my old friend #back to black #chillout #stone cold stunner #cigarettes after sex #artwork #poetry #janis joplin

[thegoblinwitch]

We don't fall in love with people because they're good... We fall in love with people whose darkness we recognise. You can fall in love with a person for all the right reasons, but that kind of love can still fall apart. But when you fall in love with a person because your monsters have found a home in them-- that's the kind of love that owns your skin and bones. Love, I am convinced, is found in the darkness.

— C. JoyBell C.

#hello darkness #my old friend #i recognise your darkness #my monsters have found a home in you #kit's #uploads

[sarjimaz]

Çıkardık gitarı yine

#my old friend #ilerde elektrogitar çalmak istiyorum #çok havalı #param yok #(o sırada kemanla devam edecektir)

[ndcgalitzine]

I have so many things I need to do, so I think I'll take a nap 😴

#procrastination #my old friend