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Ok goofball 🤪

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GEORGE IN BLUE JAY WAY (1967)

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"Whether he was picking up diapers for Sean or a prescription, John inevitably corrected the humble Middle-Easterner, who insisted on calling him "Mr Lennon". Not missing a beat, John would inevitably correct him: "Said, it's John," he'd reply. "It's just John."

— From the book "John Lennon: 1980," by Kenneth Womack.

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Paul McCartney and George Martin on the set of Give My Regards to Broad Street. (1983)

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Easter card from John Lennon's mom, Julia Lennon, for him in 1957: "Dear (my) stinker wink Don't forget your mum's crazy but she loves you anyhow See you when your 21 Lots of love, my sweet old feller Mummy Judy xxx."

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The Beatles at the Top Ten Club in Hamburg, Germany | May 1961 © Gerd Mingram

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John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison’s passports, used during their first trip to Hamburg in 1960.

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The Beatles interview at the Playhouse Theatre in London (October 16, 1963)

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PAUL McCARTNEY, LINDA McCARTNEY, RINGO STARR, and ERIC STEWART in the music video for “So Bad”. 1983.

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John Lennon recording "Remember Love" with Yoko Ono during their Bed-In For Peace in Montreal, Canada.

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IT’S SO FAR OUT, IT’S STRAIGHT DOWN (1967)

‘It’s So Far Out, It’s Straight Down’ is an episode of the British TV Series ‘Scene at 6:30′. The episode which aired on March 7th 1967, focuses on the burgeoning London underground movement and psychedelic music scene of the time. It features interviews with Paul and leading underground figures connected to the International Times newspaper and Indica Bookshop, such as Barry Miles. The episode sought to explain to a mainstream audience the cultural changes taking place in London.

Author and broadcaster Richard Metzger comments on the documentary: “it’s pre-Summer of Love. The time seems so pregnant with promise. This is the exact moment, historically speaking, when pop culture went from B&W and shades of gray to vivid color…”

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doodle beatles~

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MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR (1967) dir. The Beatles

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A letter from John Lennon to a Norwegian fan/friend, Lindy Ness, from Hamburg in 1962.

The Shit ????? Hamburg Dear Lindy How are we? Thanks for your lovely letter your a gas man. I can’t think of anything funny for you ‘cause I’m so cheesed off I could bloody cry. I hate Hamburg and I wish I was at home. I loved you being at the Airport it was very thoughtful or something and your hair was good god. I think Mary is here some German said something but I haven’t seen her.This letter won’t be a long one 'cause I’m tired and I don’t feel like writing even to you – I haven’t answered any other letters 'cause I’m fed up – everyone will think I’m a bastard but I don’t care so there. I can’t think of anything to say so I’m going to finish any minute now (The letter continues on the back, apparently.)

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Yoko Ono & John Lennon at the Amsterdam Hilton, Netherlands | March 1969 © Elmar Welge

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John Lennon's poem for Gary Noguera and Len Richmond's book "The Gay Deliberation" in 1972: "Why make it sad to be gay? Doing your thing is O.K."

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McCartney says touchingly: “There is this period of John which is all pre-Beatles, pre-huge fame, pre-drugs – and it is another John completely – that was always there right until the end.

[John] got much sweeter, too, once he settled in New York. Once he was reunited with Yoko, and they had Sean, he became this sweet personalty again then when he was more comfortable with himself. But the acerbic John is the one we know and love, you know, because he was clever with it, so it was very attractive.

But, for me, I have more than a slight affection for the John that I knew then, when we were first writing songs, when we would try and do things the old songwriters had done. I slightly regret the way John's image has formed, and because he died so tragically it has become set in concrete. The acerbic side was there but it was only part of him. He was also such a sweet, lovely man – a really sweet guy. ”

And would his songwriting partner have liked this album of standards and accompanying TV show? “Yes, he liked the songs of that era. He was brought up on them, too, and certainly we used to talk about them. One of his favourite songs was 'Little White Lies'. He would have liked some of the songs on this album. We thought of Lennon/McCartney as following on from Rodgers and Hammerstein.”

Paul McCartney talks (unusually for him) the real John Lennon (2012)