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Paul’s released the songs that will feature in his Lyrics book later this year (tbc):

#FR OMG #LYRICS BOOK 2 PLEASE PAUL I’M BEGGING YOU #paul mccartney

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this is probably the worst best of their early photos that I’ve ever seen

#i’m cackling #it’s so uncanny and awkward #ringo has to be awkwardly half-squatting behind them #and it looks like he was forced to put his hands on their shoulders and he’s just… not digging it #plus paul looks like a caring wife as usual holding his husband’s shoulder #the beatles #john lennon #paul mccartney #george harrison #ringo starr #richard starkey #beatles #1960s

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the most adorable dorks

#:)))))) #queen

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It’s gotten so fashionable on tumblr to hate on The Beatles but who else is going to eat rotten wood and contribute to soil fertility in complex forest ecosystems?

#the beatles

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what was john's most uglee fashion moment

this is literally the worst thing i’ve ever fucking seen

#i’m… #ok john lmfao #john lennon

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George Harrison, The Top Ten Club, Hamburg, April 1961.

#he looks great here #the beatles #george harrison

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#dear God it’s me #the beatles #lmfao

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Happy 79th Birthday Sir Paul McCartney!

“From ‘Eleanor Rigby’ and all its lonely people, to ‘Mr Bellamy’ (the 2007 tale of a would-be suicide) a strand in Paul’s story songs has been the everyday outsider, trapped in the social margins. The quietly compassionate ‘Footprints’, on Press to Play, personifies another stubborn loner, as invisible to society as the lives of quiet desperation he enacts in ‘Teddy Boy’ or ‘Another Day’. You can hear the same well of fellow-feeling being tapped in ‘Treat Her Gently/Lonely Old People’ from Venus and Mars – an intelligent sympathy for the forgotten. If McCartney could be said to have a signature song, it could perhaps be ‘With a Little Luck’: the gentle optimism that seeks no higher (or lower) purpose than to help us all along.”  Paul Du Noyer, Conversations with McCartney

#happy birthday dear paul :D #79 this year my god #love him #paul mccartney

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Chanel Spring, 1996

#fashion

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Did any of the beatles draw,paint? If so are there any images of their art?

Yes, pretty much all of them created some kind of drawn or painted art, maybe unsurprisingly, as they were obviously very creative people. 

STUART:

I’ll start with Stuart Sutcliffe, as he is maybe the most famous (ex) Beatle painter. (Arguably). 

“We used to stand in awe, as students, watching Stuart paint. He was the finest student in the college. He was dedicated totally to his work, until he met John.”

[Cynthia Lennon, The Independent, July 1999]

Most people say that if Stuart had lived, he probably would have had a very successful career as an artist in his own right. Here’s Stu in Astrid’s house with some of his artwork, photographed by Astrid (shame they’re not colour photos)

A few more here. Stuart had one of his artworks, called Summer Painting, purchased by John Moores (Liverpudlian businessman who founded Littlewoods) in c. January 1960 for £65, which (Wikipedia says) is about £1374 in modern money, equal to 6–7 weeks’ wages for an average working person. 

Both John and Paul had pieces of Stu’s art in their homes in the sixties (and probably now still). 

You can see more of Stu’s art on this site. 

JOHN:

If John hadn’t fallen in love with Rock and Roll and decided to become a musician, he probably would have tried to be an artist. John was a very talented artist, though he drew the world as he saw it - with surreal and abstract doodles and drawings. There are tons of John Lennon drawings around. A controversial drawing he did as an art student recently sold for a lot of money (controversial as John drew himself as a Hitler figure). The drawing above is called ‘Octopus Garden’ and is from 1978. 

As an art student John showed talent, but his art teachers despaired with him. He was disruptive in class, (when he bothered to turn up) and he would never take assignments seriously. Here’s an amusing story from John’s art school days:

For the weekly “life” class, 15 students would be quietly standing behind their easels in Room 71, sketching the body of 27-year-old nude model June Furlong. Having walked around and passed comment on the various illustrations, the teacher would then leave for a while, at which point John would let out a little snigger from the back of the room. Nobody would take any notice of this, but shortly afterwards he would make a similar but slightly louder noise.

Again, everyone would try to get on with his or her work, and a minute or so would pass before the serious mood would be interrupted by another, more exaggerated giggle, followed shortly thereafter by John’s full-scale hysterical shriek. By now, everybody, including the naked model, would be convulsed with laughter, and John would then follow this up by jumping into her lap and necking with her.

The offbeat side of John’s nature also became apparent at the end of another life class session, when the afternoon’s work was handed in. Whereas the other students had produced straightforward drawings of June, the portrait that John came up with was of the only item that she was wearing; her wristwatch. Highly original, but it didn’t amuse the teacher.

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There’s tons of John’s art and drawings around the internet, including clever drawings he made for Sean (also published as a book - Skywriting By Word Of Mouth), there’s drawings in John’s other books, In His Own Write and Spaniard In The Works and… ahem, also some rather NSFW erotica. This one (not one of his erotic pieces) is called ‘Dream Power’ and it’s from 1979. 

PAUL:

‘Elvish Me’, by Paul, 1989.

“John and I spent many a pleasant afternoon wandering around Walker Art Gallery when we were young, so going back to the ‘Pool with my paintings will complete some kind of circle for me and I’m really excited about it.I didn’t tell anybody I painted for 15 years but now I’m out of the closet.”

[Paul, 2000]

Paul’s always been interesting in art. He enjoyed it at school and has been a keen art collector in the 60s. He was also involved in the Indica Gallery of course, but it wasn’t until 1983 that Paul took up painting as partly a hobby, partly a serious pursuit after he became inspired watching Dutch abstract artist Willem de Kooning working. He first exhibited his work in 1999 in Germany as part of an exhibition with other artists (including John, David Bowie and Andy Warhol). Then held his own exhibition in Bristol in 2000 and later at the Walker Gallery in Liverpool. You can buy a book of Paul’s paintings (called simply ‘Paul McCartney: Paintings) and view more of his work at his website. 

This painting from 1990 is called ‘Three Blue Faces in Red Sky’:

GEORGE: 

George is perhaps the least painting inclined of the Beatles, but there are still a few examples of his art around. Most famously, the painting he did for the cover of Electronic Sound (above and more about it here) which I think he was rather proud of. 

George kept a diary and in it he drew as much as he wrote, filling it with lots of little doodles and illustrations: 

With very few details about them, some of George’s drawings have appeared at auction in the last few years. This one in 2012:

Which is George’s 1969 depiction of Apple’s head quarters at 3 Savile Row, London. And these two drawings in 2014: 

Balloon Man, 1968 (Don’t worry, that’s a Hindu symbol). 

Two Eyes, undated, which I think is maybe a homage to the ‘Eyes of the Buddha’. 

RINGO:

Octopus’s Garden, by Ringo, 2017

“I started in the late nineties with my computer art. While I was touring it gave me something to do in all those crazy hotels you have to stay in on the road. In its way ‘Pop’ art is always changing-like ‘Pop’ artists. Its a natural move of things like pop music and even Popeye the Sailor Man.”

[Ringo, 2005]

I seem to remember people being a little derisive about Ringo’s art when he first started, but I think he’s come on leaps and bounds. Despite the above quote, Ringo was actually painting with acrylics and oils long before he started his ‘modern media’ art, which he favours now. He had his first pop art exhibition called ‘My Faces’ in 2005 and he’s exhibited all over the world since, had pieces licensed for clothing and designed this for the ‘Knot For Violence’ campaign. Ringo’s design sold out in one day: 

Right Gun (Knot for Violence), 2013 (Earlier ones were made in 2012).

100% of all proceeds from Ringo’s art go to the charity The Lotus Foundation, and you can buy pieces of artwork and merchandise on his site http://www.ringostarrart.com/

I think he’s really good! 

Bandana Man With Paint Can (2014)

Peace and Love (2014)

THE BEATLES:

Images Of A Woman, 1966, by the Beatles

The only (known) painting which all four Beatles collaborated together to create. In 1966, while on tour in Tokyo, the Beatles were once again trapped by their fame in their hotel room for 3 nights, so they created the above painting. Each Beatle painted a corner of the paper, working by the light of a lamp they they placed in the middle. When finished, they removed the lamp and signed their names in the space by each of their corners. The painting has been sold several times since, most recently in 2012 for US$155,250.

Thank you for your ask!

#gosh I love them #george’s is so sweet lol #the beatles

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em1h → emistudio

not me making a Beatles-related pun with my name/new username LOL

#emilia talks about shit

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Versace Fall 2020

#fashion #fuck yeah

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People have written a lot of touchy-feely pieces on this subject but I thought I’d get right to the heart of the matter

#very very very important

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No cops at Pride, just Elton John with his Gucci shirt and a knife

#elton john #love him #happy pride month everyone!

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Fuck it. Bi-colored Beatles logo.

#the beatles #but also me lol #happy pride month everyone! #emilia’s pinned post

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#lmfao

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i apologize for being nosy, and please don't answer this if you don't want to, but i remember a few years ago you had identified as asexual and i was wondering if you still do? i did for a long time but i'm with a new partner now and i'm starting to wonder if maybe the connection just wasn't right with anyone before and that's why i wasn't into having sex? is that normal? i mean, i identified that way for YEARS so i'm just. very confused at myself.

I mean listen, I’m in my 30s. These labels don’t mean a lot to me anymore. Like, literally everything is normal. Everything is fine so long as nobody’s feelings are being hurt. Don’t worry about some label that used to be useful maybe not being useful anymore. Thank it for its service and let it retire. Maybe one day it will be useful again. That doesn’t change anything about you, because you are, and always have been, a complex, multifaceted, constantly changing kaleidoscope of emotional and sexual needs, and “asexual” is just a word that helped you make sense of it for a while.

Like, y’all, give yourselves a break. Sex is complicated. Some people are straight their whole lives, and then they meet one person who changes everything. Some people are one thing for a while, then they’re another thing, then they go back to being the first thing. Some people stay one thing forever. Some people are really into something in their 20s that grosses them out to even think about for the rest of their lives. All if it’s normal.

The words you put on your orientation are not elementally a part of you. They are tools, and as tools they should serve a function. That function can be to help you understand and categorize your own experiences and desires. It can be to help you find a community. It can be to help you get laid. It can just be to set social expectations. These words can be a revelation when you first apply them to yourself: they can be life-saving. But you are not beholden to them. 

“Idk, I thought of myself as ace for a long time, but I’m into my current partner, so like, enh? I’m having a good time and my partner and I are both happy, so I guess labels aren’t really useful to me right now” can be all you have to say on the subject.

#very very very important #i really mean it