swaying daisies sing a lazy song beneath the sun

@mccartneyiii's beatles sideblog.

[reflectismo]

Darkness came quickly and the moon emerged among a sprinkling of first stars. John tried to identify the stars, but became confused. The only one he was certain about was Venus, which seemed brighter than the rest. As the sky grew darker, another star appeared to shine even more brightly than Venus, and John speculated that it could be Mars. “Ah, Venus and Mars,” he laughed softly. “Sounds like an album title.”

Frederic Seaman, The Last Days of John Lennon (1991)

Who are you thinking about, Mr. Lennon?

[macca-is-art]

Did you ever take me in your arms, Look me in the eye, tell me that you do? Did I ever open up my heart, Let you look inside?

[ulmbybreathless345]

As Macca turns to greet me, it’s obvious that Stop and Smell The Roses has already brought him hours of pleasure.

“Wasn’t he great on the tele the other day?” Paul beams, oblivious to the slagging Ringo’s most recent work has received.

-Interview for Music Express • April/May 1982

[beatleswings]

GEORGE and OLIVIA HARRISON interviewed on Wogan to discuss the Romanian Angel Appeal. 20 June 1990.

[thegilly]

The Beatles with Eamonn Andrews on the Eamonn Andrews Show. 11 April 1965. Scan from 16 Scoop: Beatles Complete Story from Birth to Now (1965).

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Ways John Lennon tried to come out over the years:

Spending 100 pounds in Paris alone with the boy bestie

Going to Spain to stare at men at the beach

Wearing that sword swallower pin

Coming up with a self interview where he tries to start a rumour about himself and his ex partner

Going round the clubs flirting with the boys during his gay divorcée era

That one outfit of his with four jean pieces

Letting Bob Gruen cut the sleeves off his shirt for the New York photo

Whatever Gets You Through The Night

The 1979 rainbow bracelet

Gay Liberation Book

I’m Not A Homosexual Or–

The little sailor cap in Get Back

Fellating a microphone in Get Back

Looking like Oscar Wilde’s unhinged child through 1968-1969

Uhh Brian Was In Love With ME, Actually??

Why do you care so much about having your name attached to another man’s name? And the order of it? You married to him? You trying to make your hyphenated last names look good on the wedding register?

Again: the sword swallower pin

[thedissenters]

John Lennon | 1965 © Robert Whitaker

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[lonelyroad1988]

Paul interviewing on Today, April 27th 1982.

Interviewer: Are you at all concerned about what the critics say?

Paul: No… he said, lying through his teeth. Not at all.

-Both laugh-

Paul: No, no I don’t even notice it, no…. Yeah, I’m too concerned, probably. But, uh, you can’t help it, you’re human. You know, you see papers.. and if, since you’re a kid you read papers and sort of take ‘em for what they are - if they’re talking about you - well you know it. You can’t help it, you know. It’s probably worse when they hit on something that you’re a little insecure about anyway.

Interviewer: But my god, I mean Paul McCartney certainly has no reason to be insecure.

Paul: Uh, no. I’m insecure. Just like everyone.

[thecoleopterawithana]

It was 1965. Things were not going so smoothly between Jane Asher and me. Everyone has mild arguments where you think, “God, I wish they could understand where I’m coming from” or “I wish they could get it.” They obviously don’t; they think I’m some kind of idiot or tyrant or something. […] I started writing the song [‘We Can Work It Out’] to try to figure my way out of feeling bad after an argument. It was really fresh in my mind. You can’t write this kind of song two weeks later. You have to do it immediately. Writing a song is a good way to get your thoughts out and to allow yourself to say things that you might not say to the other person. I wrote the first couple of verses, and then I wrote out the middle eight with John at his house. When we took it into the studio, George Harrison suggested we try the waltz pattern, with suspended triplets, that ended up giving the song a profound sense of friction and fracture. But the fracture was real, and we did “fall apart before too long”. Sadly, Jane and I did break up. And that meant breaking up with her mother too. Margaret Asher was a real mumsy type and, since I’d lost my mum, she had filled that role for me. Now I’d lost a mother for a second time.

Paul McCartney, in The Lyrics (2021). (via thecoleopterawithana)

[reflectismo]

Beatles Ads included in Billboard Magazine throughout the 1960s & 1970.

[michonnegrimes]

The Beatles at the Ganges River (1968)

[lennonporn]

The Beatles is … THE MUSIC ! ♥ 

[mccartneymadness]

John Lennon, 1965

[macca-is-art]

Sleepy 💤 😴

[lindamcacca]

The portraits of Paul were taken at MPL in 1979

© Linda McCartney

[theliverpoolsoldier-deactivated]

cutie <3

[harrisonstories]

[George] was a witness to his actions. He always said, ‘People think they’ve found me or found something out about me. It’s like that I don’t know. I know when I’m bad. I know.’ Nobody suffers more than yourself, right? Than one’s self when you know you’re not being true, and he TORMENTED himself, you know, I think, a lot. But he was a curious guy, and he just wanted to have all the experiences and hope he could get back in time for the big exit.

Olivia Harrison, “All Things Must Pass at 50″, BBC Radio 4 (21 Nov. 2020)