Too Many People, RAM by Paul & Linda McCartney, 1971. // Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life by Marjorie Garber, 1995. // John Lennon by Spud Murphy, 1971.

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Too Many People, RAM by Paul & Linda McCartney, 1971. // Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life by Marjorie Garber, 1995. // John Lennon by Spud Murphy, 1971.
Paul McCartney on Chicken Shop Date with Amelia Dimoldenberg (x)
everyone wanna be queer until it comes down to how they like to see their favorite characters fuck then it gets heterosexual real quick
people will describe their incredibly nebulous sexuality to you that they’ve never been able to define and the whole time you’re thinking that sounds like bisexuality brother
The listening to Paul talk about John Face strikes again!!!!!
you just can’t help it
What do the tapes represent in GMRTBS?
Thanks for this question @destrokkit, it really got my cogs turning
What do we know about the tapes?
They glow blue (@s-l-martin has a strong theory that blue represents Paul)
Everyone thinks John Harry stole them
Except Paul
(Though sometimes he fears they’re right)
Them being gone has serious consequences for Paul
When he finds them he finds Harry
His anxieties about whatever they represent are high enough that they become a central image in his dream
I wonder if they represent Paul’s creativity or artistic success?
(there’s a Lacanian analysis of the film that suggests the tapes represent Paul and John’s creative partnership, which also has merit imo)
From Paul Mescal's GQ cover story
“Obviously this is the coldest of all takes,” says Mescal, “but they had the most fascinating lives, and the interpersonal politics between them all, the love and the frustration, it’s such rich territory.”
The Pauls, Mescal and McCartney, have met a couple of times now. “He’s the most brilliant man. I feel emotionally attached to him,” says Mescal. “He received me with great kindness and warmth.”
Mescal will be doing all of his own singing in the films. “I’ve learned so much. It’s really inspired a love,” he says. “I’ve always loved music, but getting to play one of the great songwriters and great frontmen has really lit a fire in terms of personally writing music and engaging and hearing music in a different way.”
Some quotes that I found interesting:
Sam Mendes: “[...] He spends his time with us on the ground, but when he acts, he flies… and his natural state is flight,” Mendes wrote to me. “There is a soul and sensitivity and gentleness in him, but also rage and power and physical strength. You feel like he could knock you out and then tend to your wounds after. I genuinely feel like he is one of the few great actors of his generation.”
Josh O'Connor: “You know what?” O’Connor continues. “Honestly, I don’t think he realises how rare he is as a person… I think Paul really is the generational actor for me. Sometimes I wish that he’d look at himself – if he’d quite realise how we all look up to him.”
Chloe Zhao: “It was that random meeting with him a few hours after I turned down the film and we were just talking,” she says. “And there’s something about him. There is something simmering underneath the skin that’s like an animal that wants to burst out. The compulsion that one must create to survive is in this man. And so he convinced me to read Hamnet. And of course, once I read it, I was like, Oh, I’ve got to do this.”
Bonus: Harris Dickinson calls late the next night, after a long day on the Beatles set. He’s just shot a heavy scene with Mescal, and there’s fatigue in his voice. “He’s genuinely generous, and kind,” he tells me. “He takes care of his scene partners in a way that not everyone does.”
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After a couple of years of intense work including strenuous press tours, Paul Mescal will step back to focus on the Beatles movies. Him and others have mentioned how obsessed he becomes with his characters, coupled with his new (different) love for music and getting to be close to home, Mescal seems to enjoy with filming these four movies.
If he can project that passion he has for acting onto his portrayal of Paul but for music then he will have something right.
the story of paul upstaging mick jagger at his own birthday party is crazy actually. mick should’ve killed him
Mick flew in dramatically from LA [sic – Ireland] at the last minute, with the first advance pressing of The Stones’ new album Beggars Banquet, the album the whole world was waiting to hear, for this was a record on which the band’s entire future hung. Everything was perfect for the party. The club looked beautiful with huge silver bowls of mescaline spiked punch, plus plates full of hash cakes [...] As Paul walked in, everybody was leaping around to Beggars Banquet, which was far and away the best album of The Stones’ career. Paul discreetly handed me a record and said, ‘See what you think of it, Tony. It’s our new one.’
- Tony Sanchez, owner of The Vesuvio Club, in Keith Badman's The Beatles: Off The Record (2008)
Of course Pattie is mad she wasn't consulted by Sam Mendes and she's entitled to be. It is up to Mendes and/or the actors if they want to approach her, and none did. Mendes did with Julian, Paul Mescal has been able to meet with Paul, same thing for Barry with Ringo, while Harris has shared he hasn't met with anyone from the Lennon estate. So she's not the only one not getting consulted, it's up to the people involved who they want to ask and who makes themselves available.
These movies are meant for entertainment, for an old act to reach new audiences and set a more modern version of the current narrative, both individual and as a band. They are estate approved and backed, not even their documentaries go into depth like we want them to, they just repeat familiar stories in new ways.
We were never going to get a deep dive into the complex relationships between the Beatles and their former wives/gfs. Cynthia is probably the only one that will get a bit more than the others.
if you think the biopics are going to suck because they won't go into depth of every person/relationship/marriage and share The Truth then you're only preemptively getting angry and using this as a reason for something the movies were never going to be.
Paul and Stephen Colbert during rehearsal for “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert”. THE GLASSES
don't want to rain on anyone's fun, but the Beatles' dentist routinely gave them all intravenous valium no matter what the procedure was, and then spiked their drinks with LSD
even if they had changed dentist by then it's not that surprising that Paul put off going
(he would later dream of Klein as a dentist, btw)
PAUL MCCARTNEY. NASHVILLE, 1974.
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Paul McCartney: “Andy In The Garden", Circa 1990.
How it was displayed in the PinchukArtCentre, Ukraine Kyiv June 13 2008.