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lady-jane-asher · 2 months

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Paul McCartney and his then fiancee, actress Jane Asher, visited Iran for 2 days in 1968 on their way back from India, touring historic and cultural sites such as Tehran's Shah Mosque. From [email protected] twitter! 🌸✨

#jane asher #the beatles #60s #beatles girls #actress #lady jane asher #paul mccartney #something about jane asher #model #beatles women #1968 #redhead #red hair #explore page

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ludmilachaibemachado · 5 months

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Paul and Jane sitting together on the couch, talking and listening to the Maharishi, you can see Pattie smiling behind them. Photo taken in 1967🌺🌺🌺

Via @janeasherdaily on Instagram🌺🌺🌺

#60s icons #girlsofthesixties #60s couples #paul mccartney #jane asher #beatles girls #beatles women #actress #paul and jane #1967

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franklyimissparis · 2 months

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#the correct answer is actually a 9 part series where each episode is 2 hours long #they all have had such rich and interesting lives that deserve to be examined in depth on their own #i know there have been a few films abt some of them but most of those are either documentaries or made for tv low budget films #and none truly centre the women’s lives - most that i can think of just begin and end with their relationship w their respective beatle #the beatles #beatles women #jane asher #linda mccartney #yoko ono #cynthia lennon #olivia harrison #barbara bach #maureen starkey #pattie boyd #may pang #beatles biopics

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mariannefaithful · 1 year

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#:)#george harrison #olivia harrison #dark horse #70s #1970s #the beatles #beatles women

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harrisongslimited · 8 months

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George picture of the day 9-1-23

George's picture of Olivia.

#george harrison #the beatles #olivia harrison #beatles women

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derkhue · 7 months

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John Lennon ✌🎨

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johnspookie · 8 months

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★ : cynthia and julian

#cynthia lennon #cynthia powell #john lennon #john and cyn #beatle girls #julian lennon #beatles women

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sbrown82 · 11 months

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The Ronettes kicking each other’s ass while on tour with the Beatles (1966).

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fandomsarefamily1966 · 10 months

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I just realized that I’m not following enough blogs, so...

Reblog if you like/love any of the following:

Little Women

Anne of Green Gables

The Lord of the Rings

The Chronicles of Narnia

Doctor Who

Steven Universe

Gravity Falls

Amphibia

The Owl House

Percy Jackson

The Beatles

The Beach Boys

The Monkees

Pink Floyd

Queen

Anything 60′s or 70′s related

#little women #anne of green gables #the lord of the rings #the chronicles of narnia #doctor who #steven universe #gravity falls #amphibia #the owl house #percy jackson #the beatles #the beach boys #the monkees #pink floyd #Queen #60's #70's #here we go

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javelinbk · 7 months

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John Lennon getting measured for his Madame Tussaud’s wax figure, 15th March 1964 (x)

#there’s just something about ahdn john #my favourite part?#paul’s spidey senses tingling when john starts being silly in gif 3 #those two women had such a fun day didn’t they?#shame all their friends hate them now #john lennon #paul mccartney #john and paul #george harrison #the beatles #1964 #javelin’s gifs

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torchlitinthedesert · 3 days

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I'd be curious to hear your Ob-la-di Ob-la-da take lol

I claimed Ob-la-di Ob-la-da as a political song. No, I'm not kidding.

Obviously, Ob-la-di Ob-la-da isn't a protest song. It's a perky ska-style number about the happy, everyday life of an immigrant family. And it was released in 1968, when immigration had just become the most inflammatory topic in British politics.

In spring 1968, the UK government proposed a new Race Relations bill, making it illegal to refuse housing, employment, or public services to anyone on the grounds of race or national origin. It was a response to racism, particularly against recent immigrants, especially those from the Caribbean.

Cue a lot more racism, most notoriously from politician Enoch Powell, who gave what is still commonly referred to today as the "Rivers of blood" speech. Powell ranted about sending "the immigrant and immigrant-descended population" back to the countries they or their families had once come from. He was particularly freaked out by the idea that, having come to Britain, people would settle down and - horrors - have babies, eventually outnumbering the white population. Powell was sacked by his party the next day, but he sparked a horrible wave of racist protest and abuse.

All this was brewing over the summer, as The Beatles worked on the White Album, and on this song. What is Ob-la-di Ob-la-da about? It's an everyday love story. The ska style frames Desmond and Molly as Jamaican - which, in a British context, strongly suggests that they're immigrants. The song builds a happy ending out of exactly the things that racists like Powell were terrified that immigrants would do. They work, get married, and have children, who grow up and help with the family business. Life going on, happy ever after.

The Beatles were certainly aware of the tensions sparked by Powell, immigration and the Race Relations Act; they were still talking about it, and trying to write a protest song about it, in the Get Back sessions in January 1969. Ob-la-di Ob-la-da doesn't talk directly about any of that. Its subjects - work, home, children - are the sort of thing that 1970s rock journalists would put down as Paul's normie bourgeois sensibilities.

But normie is where most people live. The song presents Desmond and Molly as deeply relatable. It assumes that their happy ending is something everyone can root for and sing along with. That is not an apolitical act, particularly not in Britain in 1968.

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And people did sing along, in their millions. Ob-la-di was staggeringly popular. The Beatles didn't release it as a single in the UK or the US (though it topped charts in Australia, Japan and Europe). There were multiple competing cover versions. One by the band Marmalade went to No 1 in Britain, and sold about a million copies. Paul's own favourite cover was by The Bedrocks, whose members were all first-generation immigrants from the Caribbean.

(Obviously, there are other questions here about race, music, and appropriation; The Beatles, and most of the artists doing cover versions, are white people singing black music. Hello, history of western popular music.)

As I said, this isn't a protest song. But it has been sung in protest. @beatleshistoryblog found this great footage from a Women's March in London in 1971. Just listen to the first seconds: la la la la life goes on.