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[Mimi] also told me an interesting story about the Beatles break-up that I’d never heard before and have yet to see verified anywhere or by anyone. But I’ll tell it anyway.

It seems that while negotiating different things during the breaking up, John worried most about George. He figured Ringo could always make a living being Ringo, but he wasn’t sure about George. So he suggested to Paul that they each give him a percentage of the Lennon/McCartney songs. George and Ringo were already receiving an equal share but this would be a little extra just for George.

Paul refused, and was totally adamant about it. They argued about it for days. So finally John threw his hands up in defeat and made arrangements for George to receive a percentage directly out of John’s pocket, leaving Paul out of it.

The reason John was so angry at George at the end of his life had nothing to do with not being mentioned in George’s autobiography but because George had never thanked him. John had given him the money, there had almost been a huge row with Paul over it, and he had never been thanked.

The Guitar’s All Right as a Hobby, John, Kathy Burns (2014)

#this does sound like something John would do to be honest #we know he worried about George/Ringo #we also know he was super generous #now of george actually took the money is debatable #I could see george being offended by the notion #John Lennon #George Harrison #paul mccartney #ringo starr #the beatles #aunt mimi

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He made me feel so confident.

INT: I love the Tom Snyder interview from 1975 where John talks about how proud he was of Ringo's success.

MARK HUDSON: Yeah! Well, you know what's interesting? Ringo gave me a great compliment one time. I'm very energetic, multi-colored beard, which you can't see out there in radioland, it's pretty frightening, and when Ringo sings, I really get him energized because he's always insecure about his voice, and Ringo always says, "I wanna be James Brown. I walk up to the microphone, l'm Bing Crosby." So that Ringo thing that we love so much, he would rather be Little Richard or Stevie Wonder or James Brown. And I always sort of like make him feel like he can hit notes that he never could. And one time in the studio he said, "You know, you remind me of John," because whenever Ringo had to sing a song, he'd get insecure, and evidently, from what Ringo said, that John would come out and say, "Alright Ring! Here we go man!" and he would start this thing like a football player. "You can do it! Here we go! Hit that note! With a little help from my friends!" and he would hit the note and he says "John had this thing that made me feel so confident," and a huge compliment to me, saying that made him feel the same way. And it's only because I quote Lennon, "Nothing you can do that can't be done." And I think that was a way of life, and I think that was the way John felt that way about Ringo. And that's when we look at John's first solo album, its three guys playing on it: Klaus Voorman, John Lennon and Ringo Starr, and that goes to show you the faith that obviously John had in him, was you know, three guys is pretty naked, and this day and age usually we do things to cover up.

— Interview with Mark Hudson (who produced five studio albums for Ringo) from Beatlology Magazine (May/June 2003 Edition)

#john and ringo #so pure #😭!!!! #mark hudson #john #ringo #quotes #john lennon #ringo starr #the beatles

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"I know I speak of his hands a lot. I loved his hands. He used to say he had wanted hands like Jean Cocteau — long and slim fin­gers. But I grew up surrounded by cousins with those aristocrat­ic hands. I loved John’s, clean, strong, working-class hands that grabbed me whenever there was a chance."

John Lennon’s Last Days: A Remembrance by Yoko Ono Rolling Stone | 23 December 2010

#he had incredible hands #I’m actually obsess with them #john lennon #yoko ono #john and yoko #the Beatles

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Speaking about the Beatles, John once told me, "When the four of us make it, we're one, but when we don't, we're one person in turmoil."

- Jonathan Cott, Days That I'll Remember

#good god #bugs #quotes #the beatles #john #jonathan cott #😢 #john quote #john lennon #the 60s

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"Derek and I moved back into the main living room. Derek helped himself to a drink, and within a few minutes the other Beatles wandered in. John Lennon was shoeless in a crumpled white shirt and jeans so narrow that it looked as though they'd had an argument with his bare ankles. The whole place reeked of stale cigarette smoke. The introductions were brief. Derek said to John, 'This is Ivor'. John looked me over. 'Ivan the Terrible', he said. 'No, it's Ivor', I corrected, but John would have none of it. 'Ivan the Not So Terrible', he repeated."

ㅡ From the book "The Beatles And Me On Tour" by Ivor Davis.

#why is he like this 😭 #he’s honestly so fucking funny #I don’t know if we’ll see another non-comedian public figure as genuinely funny #derek taylor #ivor davis #john #quotes #john lennon #the beatles #menace #60s #1964

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where's the insane chris evans mclennon tweet

#he's the only man who's ever got it #I mean what fuckin’ luck #it’s actually insane #john and paul #john lennon #the beatles #the sixties #paul mccartney

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Happy McLennon Day! Here's a set of original window panes from St Peter's Church Hall, Woolton, displayed in the Liverpool Beatles Museum

#if you can buy pieces of this church Paul has bought them #i love how no one is normal about july 6th 1957 #john and paul #the beatles #john&paul

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Secret Other Thing Poll: Best Beatle

While we're taking a break from the UK Rock Superstars Tournament here's a fun side poll. Based on their solo careers, who is the best of The Beatles.

#these are hard #I picked John #but it was close between him and George #the beatles #john lennon #george harrison #the 60s #the sixties #60s

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John visiting Paul at Cavendish in 1967..

( Someone’s knockin’ at the door.. Open the door and let him in )

#I love his outfit #he’s so cute #beatles #cavendish #1967 #john lennon #the beatles #the 60s #the sixties #paul mccartney

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miss auntie mimi and little johnny starting a fire with his gang

#this is so sad #she definitely caused him much pain #poor John #mimi #beatles #aunt mimi #john lennon

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“Paul was John's sounding-board, of course, and George had a huge amount of input, which, to my eternal regret, I didn’t sufficiently recognise at the time, but Ringo’s opinion was always important to John, just because he knew that with him there’d never be any bullshit. He’d often turn to Ringo and ask what he thought and if Ringo said, ‘That’s crap, John,’ he’d do something else.”

GEORGE MARTIN, "John Lennon: The Life" by Philip Norman

#john lennon #ringo starr #the beatles #george martin #philip norman

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"As an artist, John was quick, swift, dexterous, sharp. I don’t remember him being fired up by any particular artist – he was just John, sufficient being himself. He would see what somebody was doing, assimilate it, do it once and then drop it. We had a man called Tony Byrne come across from Birkenhead – he'd been to the American exhibition in London and started painting on the floor, on big pieces of hardboard. John walked in and said, 'When are you going to add an egg?', which was the advert at the time: 'Add an egg'. Tony grumped. John then did a perfect painting on the floor, better than Tony's, and never did another one again. That’s the sort of thing he'd do. He could look at people from the other end of a telescope, take in what they were about and move on. John lived a hundred lives while we had only one. ~ Pat Jourdan

The Beatles Tune In - Mark Lewisohn

#john lennon #the beatles #pat jourdan #mark lewisohn #tune in #quote #John

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In Dallas on September 18, where they were due to play the Memorial Coliseum, the boys—particularly John—expressed a keen interest in driving by the notorious Texas School Book Depository, site of the Kennedy assassination just ten months earlier.

“Let’s take a quick look at the scene of the crime,” John said as he finished off breakfast in his room late in the morning. John had been the most traumatized by President Kennedy’s murder.

“He brought it up time and again in interviews with me,” remembered Art Schreiber, who covered the trip for the Westinghouse network of radio stations. “He was genuinely outraged by America’s passion for guns and the daily reports of violence that played out nightly on television.” And he didn’t hold back. He said he loved what little he had seen of America, but was sickened by what he called, “America’s fookin’ shoot-first-and-ask-questions-later cowboy mentality,” Schreiber said.

The more John demanded to see the assassination site, the more Brian pushed back, insisting: “It’s a bloody waste of time.” He also knew that the Dallas promoter was not keen to show off the location of such infamy following an incident that was still so raw in everyone’s mind.

More to the point, he worried that the Beatles showing up at Dealey Plaza on the eve of their live appearance would produce negative publicity for the upcoming concert—not to mention being a security headache.

“They say there’s nothing to see,” Brian told John, “just a decrepit office building and a lawn.” (Today, of course, the site is a museum, but back then there wasn’t much other than he weathered brown brick building where Lee Harvey Oswald and his rifle had lain in wait for the president.) There was much debate and, finally, as the time of the performance drew closer, Brian shifted the conversation to the concert and the side trip was soon forgotten.

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In the privacy of his suite, he also sounded off about gun-happy Americans and the U.S. political system, which he said allowed any trigger-happy geezer to own a weapon. He complained to Art Schreiber that America was still the Wild West, because hardly a day went by “without me reading about some bloody idiot with a gun shooting somebody else after a fight over a pint of beer.” “There’s too many loonies with guns,” he told Schreiber with eerie prescience.

He was also angry after seeing reports, in late August during the tour, of police turning fire hoses on blacks during the Philadelphia race riots. This time, though, he went public. Before their appearance at the Jacksonville, Florida, Gator Bowl, the band went to the extraordinary lengths of putting out a formal press release declaring, “We will not appear unless Negroes are allowed to sit anywhere.”

The edict drew a fierce editorial in the Florida Times Union, which called the Beatles “a passing fad, perfectly timed and fitted to the mores, morals and ideals of a fast-paced troubled time.”

But John prodded Brian to stand firm. “Watch it,” he warned Brian, “they may try to stick a few Negroes in the corner and say it’s integrated.” He told Brian to get a written commitment from the local promoter that the Gator Bowl audiences would be integrated and went on record that he would refuse to play in stadiums in the South if blacks were banned.

The Beatles and Me On Tour - Ivor Davis

#john lennon #the beatles #ivor davis #the beatles and me on tour #texas #usa #1964 #quote

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MJ | 1977 🌸

Fly as ever.

#baby looking so good #michael jackson #michaeljackson #mj #mjj #mjforever #mjfam #king of pop #king of music #the jacksons #jacksons

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"I was 22 years old, I was a flight attendant on a Sydney-Adelaide flight. The airline prepared all these expensive snacks with caviar and oysters, but all the Beatles wanted were peanut butter sandwiches. John Lennon himself went into the compartment with the on-board kitchen to ask for them, and I almost lost my senses. I figured he was one of the most handsome men I had ever seen."

ㅡ Margaret Paul, the flight attendant who helped The Beatles on the band's tour in Australia, June 12, 1964.

#john lennon #the beatles #60s #this!! is!! very!! important!! #quote #the 60s #the sixties

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✽ Brian Epstein & John Lennon ✽  

‘He is a full and generous person and I cannot think of anyone I admire or like better.’ - Brian

‘Lennon’s very image, his caustic wit, his attitude and his mentality is what attracted Brian. I know he found him attractive. It was more than a sexual attraction. It was a sort of love which he felt.’ - Nat Weiss

‘Had there been no Beatles and no Epstein participation, John would have emerged from the mass of the population as a man to reckon with. He may not have been a singer or a guitarist, a writer or a painter, but he would most certainly have been a Something. You cannot contain a talent like this. There is in the set of his head a controlled aggression which demands respect.’ - Brian

‘I make a lot of mistakes, character-wise, but now and then I make a good one… and Brian was one.’ - John

#john lennon #the beatles #brian epstein #quote #the 60s #the sixties

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John Lennon at the George V Hotel in Paris, France | 23 January 1964 © Ringo Starr

“I’ve been missing John for more than 40 years but I’ve been loving the man for more than 60.” ~ Ringo Starr

#aww ringo 🥺 #john lennon #ringo starr #the beatles #quote #the 60s #the sixties