‘I spend a lot of time dreaming. I’m like a cat: I watch the shadows on the wall... I watch the park change through my window. I spend most of my time here.’
— The bedroom, sun’s almost gone, December 3rd, 1980
“John and May [Pang] are taxi-bound, en route to fulfilling a business appointment before getting stuck in the horn-honking congestion of the Big Apple. Lennon had earlier attempted to reach McCartney in order to arrange dinner for the evening. However, Paul had already left the hotel. ‘It was really quite funny,’ remembers fellow passenger Pang, who was about to celebrate her 31st birthday. ‘John goes, “Oh my God.” And he looks in the cab next to him, and who’s in the cab? Paul and Linda! And he rolls down the window and he’s yelling: “Hey, Paul! We tried to get you this morning.” Paul says: “We’re on our way to see Lee,” his father-in-law. And John goes, “Yeah, we’re on our way to Capitol.” Paul goes: “Maybe we’ll have dinner later.”’ As the two taxis start to move once the traffic begins to flow, Paul and John attempt to keep their conversation going, sticking their heads out the window as they try to make arrangements for later that evening.”
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Come Together: Lennon and McCartney in the Seventies by Richard White. This incident took place in late October of 1974. (via pickledbeatles)
An animated retelling of John Lennon's Being A Short Diversion On The Dubious Origins Of Beatles recited by Bernard Hill, in character as John, from the 1985 TV special John Lennon: A Journey In The Life.
“Getting a photograph of four people without one of them looking dopey is hard to do, especially since my photographs aren’t posed. I learnt that it was okay to shoot three of them, or even two of them, as long as one of them was Paul. They liked to ham it up for the press, but I spent such a long time with them that I was able to capture more intimate moments, when they forgot about the presence of a camera” ~ Harry Benson