wellā¦
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I honestly didnāt expect him to find a way to mention John while answering a question about Ā»Uncle Albert/Admiral HalseyĀ«, but he proved me wrong.
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ttpd is like... this fucking sucked... it was my fault... fuck joe... this also fucking sucked... fuck matty... i thought i was gonna die... straight up commit me to an asylum... FUCK matty... fuck joe... no one knows me... fuck kim kardashian... i created every problem and every consequence i have to face... please see me as human... i am exposing my flaws so you see me as a real person... fuck jake gyllenhaal... if you're gonna be so up my business you better realize how fucked up my business is... also hi killatrav ily... there is nothing redeeming about this chapter of my life... hi mom ily... this ALSO fucking sucked... there may be good in the world... here is every sin i have ever committed... i was promised love and forever repeatedly and no one ever delivered... my reaction to trauma was awful... i made so many bad decisions... if you're gonna crucify me do it for good reasons... are you not entertained?
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Iāve learnt a lot through this already. Mostly that people hate Dizzy Miss Lizzie which is sad and wrong. Also some very sad dislike for the absolutely BANGER Iām Happy Just to Dance with You. But mostly itās soooooo nice seeing how much people love the early albums and (obviously I guess) just love these songs. Itās made my day going through the tags.
Beatles fans, please indulge me and let me know in tags your most and least favourite songs on:
Please Please Me
With the Beatles
Hard Days Night
Beatles for Sale
Help!
Extra points for adding why.
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Beatles fans, please indulge me and let me know in tags your most and least favourite songs on:
Please Please Me
With the Beatles
Hard Days Night
Beatles for Sale
Help!
Extra points for adding why.
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Hi!
Thank you for your "Going Nowhere"! ("thank you, thank you" purrs John's voice in my head). It's so nice to read it, hear it, feel it. It's like your words heal what's broken and during you're reading you know all's exactly how it is in this beautiful tale. ("In another world" sings Paul's voice in my enamored head). May be in another world or in our dream or in parallel reality built in Paul's heart. You give to your (our) heroes chance and they take it. You love them and want them be happy. And they are. Thank you a lot for this!
("Words wouldn't get my feelings through, so I keep talking to you however absurd, however absurd it may seem" two voices grope for harmony in my head - and Nerk Twins start dancing).
Love
Oh my goodness! Iām sorry, I think I forgot to publish this and itās been in my drafts for way too long.
Thank YOU SO MUCH for sending this. Itās so kind of you to take the time to write something so lovely. Writing GN was a real labour of love for me, just wanting to take a sad song and make it a little better. Iām glad you enjoyed it too.
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this is apropos of nothing but it suddenly struck me today how funny it is that even at his absolute most burn-it-all-down bitter, there was still this totally casual acknowledgement from john that paul was super hot. like, sure, at his worst he sometimes presented it in an intentionally gross and emasculating way (john the manly working class true artist vs. paul the vapid pretty boy), but it remains fundamentally hilarious imo.
Itās sooooooooo funny. John was just in a constant state of, āHeās the worst man thatās ever lived. Hot af obviously. But what a cunt.ā Honestly, one of the more relatable sides to John.
Iām also not sure that he always meant it to be emasculating either. Some of the time for sure. But I also think he was like, āThereās only so much I can expect the public to swallow. That he broke up the Beatles by being a little bitch? Sure. Untalented? Absolutely. Deliberately sabotaged his bands own songs? Iāll give it a go. Doesnāt really love his wife? Easy! But not the most beautiful human anyone has ever seen? Now, letās not go too far, weāll look ridiculousā¦ā
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Paul liked to keep his options open and this applied to friendship. Just when you thought you were getting to know him, to feel a commitment from him, he'd slip behind a smiling mask. Finally I came to accept this aspect of his nature and we worked together, travelled together in a relaxed fashion, but never with any developed contact.
Paul had a real appetite for life -- an exuberant optimism and a buoyant enthusiasm that was admirable even if at times it overwhelmed his sceptical partner, John.
...He lived in his head to create music or lived to create music in his head. This process or activity could account for a certain distance in his contact with people, however pleasant and engaging he might appear.
Robert Freeman, The Beatles: A Private View
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I'm sure he'd prefer to be alive but thereās also no way that john lennon wouldnāt be a at least a little self-satisfied with the idea of his death permanently making him the center of paulās universe. he doesn't seem like the "you need to let me go" type. he seems more like the "if you don't cry over me at least once a week I'm going to start flickering the lights on and off until you have a seizure" type
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One of the most unhinged couples in rock history.
JohnandYoko from a screenshot of "Get back" where they looked VERY cryptid-like.
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I see you McCartney
with your early 70s singles b-sides
Another Day - yeahh, schmaltzy love song about luvin' my wife
Oh Woman, Oh Why - WHAT HAVE I DONE WHAT HAVE YOU DONE I CAN'T GET BY
Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey - so sorry, Uncle, we slept in but we'll be right over after tea
Too Many People - GET OFF YOUR FUCKING HIGH HORSES JOHN AND YOKO
My Love - yeahh, schmaltzy love song about luvin' my wife
The Mess - SWEET DARLING WHAT A MESS I'M IN SINCE YOU LEFT ME CAN YOU HEAR ME
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john and paul!
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When we met the Beatles they were undressed and dripping with sweat
That day the Beatles were playing, all kitted out in black ties, white shirts and black trousers. It was so hot and crowded in the Cavern that, as usual, sweat was dripping off the ceiling, but we didnāt mind. The Beatlesā rhythm and harmonies were so tight and focused that we couldnāt stop dancing. They played covers of Barrett Strong originals, likeĀ Some Other GuyĀ andĀ Money. They did a raucous version ofĀ Twist and Shout, and wild rockānāroll songs like Chuck BerryāsĀ Roll over BeethovenĀ and Little Richardās saucyĀ Long Tall Sally. More than ever, we wanted to be up on stage like them, playing our guitars and makingĀ the crowd rock.
After the set Wooler [Bob Wooler, the Cavernās compere and DJ] said, āCome on, Iāll take you to meet the lads.ā It was so exciting. He grabbed us and we threaded through the audience backstage where George Harrison was standing in the corridor talking to a very good-looking blonde girl. He was wearing a fantastic black leather coat, and later walked out of the Cavern with her, already like a rock star.
In the dressing room John Lennon and Paul McCartney were in their undies, getting changed. They were drying themselves with towels because they had just come off stage and were dripping with sweat. They were very handsome. Apart from our brothers, weād never seen men in underpants before, so us four teenage girls just stood there staring at them. They were very down to earth, and Paul was particularly kind.
āHiya girls, yāall right?ā he said, while John sat there looking at us in a way that was direct and penetrating.
Bob Wooler told them, āThis is the Liverbirds, theyāre gonna be the first all-girl group.ā
āWhat a great idea,ā said Paul, but Lennon was sarcastic. āGirls donāt play guitars,ā he said.
After we left the dressing room we huffed, āThe cheek of it! Weāre going to prove him wrong.ā Years later we found out more about Lennon, that although he often made sardonic comments he was also sensitive and intelligent, an artist who regretted his disdainful treatment of women in his early career. āWe canāt have a revolution that doesnāt involve and liberate women. Itās so subtle the way youāre taught male superiority,ā he said in 1971, in an interview with Tariq Ali and Robin Blackburn for the underground paper Red Mole. Itās clear his feelings about women evolved, but we also wonder if what he said that day in the Cavern dressing room was meant to test us, provoke us into making a success of the band. If so, it certainly worked.
from The Liverbirds: Our Life in Britainās First Female Rockānāroll BandĀ by Mary McGlory and Sylvia Saunders (source)
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