guys, I need to reply to stuff from yesterday and also reblog a shitload of Ringo gifsets for his birthday, but:
My copy of The Day John Met Paul: An Hour-by-Hour Account of How the Beatles Began (Jim O'Donnell) finally arrived, and it is INSANE
I'd read some excerpts but nothing prepared me. He claims that he spent 8 years researching it, and that it is "not historical fiction, hysterical fiction, Beatles fiction", but rather "non-fiction" - albeit with "a smidgen of atmosphere" [p.xxi].
BUT JUST LOOK AT THIS [p.93-94]:
I have only skimmed it so far but holy fucking hell. I think my favourite part so far is that he describes Paul's white jacket as "fluff[ing] up around him like a miniature bridal train" as he cycles to the fete??? what the fuck what the fuck WHAT THE ACTUAL FU-
genuinely screaming. Cannot believe that someone had written this, published it, got it reviewed by Pete Shotton, and is making money from it. We should just all pack up and go home tbh. This guy has won Beatles fandom.
(He does, however, describe Paul's eyes as "chocolate brown"?????)