Do you think this will be a controversial tour like the Philippines?
Paul served cunt in this interview idc
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It's so funny how some people are getting upset about Now and Then being promoted as a "Beatles song" when George didn't want to do it and is no longer here to have a say in it... if anything George not wanting to do it but not getting a say is exactly what makes it a fully authentic Beatles song
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It’s been years, and I’m still trying to figure out how it went from this:
(September 20, 1969 Meeting)
Then we were discussing something in the office with Paul and Paul was saying to do something, and I kept saying, ‘No, no, no’ to everything he said. So it came to a point that I had to say something. So I said, ‘The group’s over, I’m leaving.’ Allen was there, and he was saying, ‘Don’t tell.’ He didn’t want me to tell Paul even. But I couldn’t help it, I couldn’t stop it, it came out.
— John Lennon, Lennon Remembers, 1970
I’d said: ‘I think we should go back to little gigs – I really think we’re a great little band. We should find our basic roots, and then who knows what will happen? We may want to fold after that, or we may really think we’ve still got it.’ John looked at me in the eye and said: ‘Well, I think you’re daft. I wasn’t going to tell you till we signed the Capitol deal’ – Klein was trying to get us to sign a new deal with the record company – ‘but I’m leaving the group!’ We paled visibly and our jaws slackened a bit.
— Paul McCartney, The Beatles Anthology, 2000
So everyone went, “Gulp!” The weight was dropped, our jaws dropped along with it, everyone blanched except John, who coloured a little and said, “It’s rather exciting. It’s like I remember telling Cynthia I wanted a divorce.”
— Paul McCartney, From “Many Years From Now” by Barry Miles, 1997
To this:
Why do you think he [Paul] has lost interest in Apple?
That’s what I want to ask him! We had a heavy scene last year as far as business was concerned and Paul got a bit fed-up with all the effort of business. I think that’s all it is. I hope so.
— John Lennon interviewed by Roy Shipston for Disc and Music Echo (February 28, 1970)
INT: I asked Lee Eastman for his view of the split, and what it was that prompted Paul to file suit to dissolve the Beatles' partnership, and he said it was because John asked for a divorce.
JOHN: Because I asked for a divorce? That's a childish reason for going into court, isn't it?
— John Lennon interviewed by Peter McCabe and Robert Schonfeld at the St. Regis Hotel, September 5, 1971
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"She went to the after-party. [...] She didn't remember anything about George or Ringo. But she did remember that John was sitting under a table sort of next to her. Just sitting there quietly under a table, doing nothing. Not communicating at all, while she and Paul were having this conversation about how to make the best gravy."
Mark Cunningham about his aunt's memories from the Help! opening after-party.
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