You 've got to hide your love away

[beatles-tarot]

IV -- The Emperor

[weirdartgirl]

➤ Drawing of the og lesbian couple, Paul Mccartney and Linda Eastman.

➤ the photo I used as the reference:

[wontyoucomeouttoplay]

New Article of the Week: Prostitutes and Lesbians: Exploring Queer Characters in Beatles Songs

Prostitutes and Lesbians

Exploring queer characters in Beatles songs

"Beyond the question's [How queer are Beatles' songs?] initial fear of blatantly obvious lyrical evidence of queerness, is it possible to interpret some of the lyrics, songs, and characters through the queer lens? The answer is yes, it is! Interpretation is often left to the reader, or in this case the listener, and being able to give context to some songs could bring forth a new perspective. One that may introduce some to hidden queer characters that are beloved in Beatles songs."

Written by @monkberryfields, this lyrical analysis highlights some of the queer characters in Beatles songs — some you may have not realized had queer connotations. Give it a read on the WYCOTP Substack and subscribe if you haven't!

[muzaktomyears]

Stu Sutcliffe with one of his paintings hanging over the fireplace at Percy Street, 1959

Stu Sutcliffe in Percy Street, 1959

“I remember Stuart very vividly. He had this faithful companion who was always a couple of places behind him and never said very much, rather like the Duke of Edinburgh with the Queen. That was John Lennon. In view of his later capacity for talking, it’s extraordinary that I should remember him that way.” - Adrian Henri

from The Beatles in Liverpool, Spencer Leigh (2014)

[st-johns-wood]

McLennon Internet Archive Project

Introduction

Hi everyone!

I had this project of creating an online mclennon archive on which everyone could upload files and look them up since a while. This was because tumblr is fine and some blogs on here are really well organized and they're very good sources of information, but I thought that a chronologically organized collective archive could be even more effective for research.

Page link

So basically I asked @undying-love about what they thought of my project and they told me they also wanted to do something similar, so we created this internet archive page: https://archive.org/details/@the_mclennon_files/web-archive

How it works

The idea is that if someone wants to upload a file (image, text, audio, video) that can be considered relevant in the context of the history of the relationship (which means NO FANART OR FICTION) between John and Paul they log in on the account, upload the file, write the source, date and details in the file description as indicated in the page details (x), and put it in the correct folder, according to the format (audio, video, etc) of the file.

In this way everything would be sorted in chronological order and easily accessible.

We wrote everything you need to know in order to upload files in addition to the rules and guidelines in the page description (x). Please read them before using the account.

Account credentials

The account credentials will be shared on here, so that everyone who wants to upload a file can log in and do so, therefore it is based on trust that No one uses the account maliciously. However I think that there should be some kind of admins who check the content which has been uploaded to see if it's ok. If you want to be an admin please dm me.

Anyway here's the credentials:

Email: [email protected]

Password: the-mclennon-files

⚠️ Log in just if you want to upload files, you don't need to be logged in if you just want to access to them!

Final words

Please don't go share these credentials all over the internet but just with people who are interested and reliable. But you can share the link of the archive with whoever might be interested.

The archive is empty for now, but it's ready to be used (I'll probably start uploading something in the next days), so if you're interested in this project check out the page, reblog this post, or talk to someone who might be interested as well about it.

If you have any asks about how it works, suggestions or comments, dm me or send asks and I'll be pleased to answer, and I think @undying-love will be, too.

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If you think that this is a nice idea please share and talk about it so that the project can kick off!

[mozartok]

holy in love john

the fact hes the closest to him of all of his family.

[always-a-mad-comet]

"It's funny, in films like Nowhere Boy, you'll get this thing where John's mum is teaching him rock-and-roll or buying rock-and-roll records. But two of John's favourite songs, when I met him, were 'Close your eyes, put your head on my shoulder...' which is very much a Thirties/ Forties song. And the other one was 'Little White Lies': 'Doo-doo diddle-oo, the lies that you told me...' When I met John those were the kind of songs that we'd been listening to. "That attracted me to him. I thought, yeah, I love that song. And he'd say, 'I love this one, or that one.' They did have quite an influence."

Paul McCartney in Conversations with McCartney by Paul Du Noyer.

[the-boney-rolls]

Paul will not let George get away with Paris erasure.

[beatlblog]

#omg George’s passive aggressive ukulele playing#where did the ukulele come from?#he probably motions to a PA off camera#if I have to hear about Paris one more time#I will pluck my ukulele Hare Krishna (via talkin-bout-the-boys-now)

#George playing Paul off stage like at the Oscar’s I can’t (via glowing-gold)

#all of them still just mind boggled by John's hundred quid#nobody questioning that of course that hundred quid was spent on Paul like nobody brings up that that was weird#of course it was that's John's widow#Cynthia who#Stuart who#and yes George being done with the story#because not only does it ruin his attempt to take some credit for something damnit#but it goes into the thing that ruined his career which was the gay love affair between his two best friends (via m1ssunderstanding)

#george is so funny omg i love him#paul's storytelling is so irish god (via mylonghairedladyy)

#george playing his emotional support ukulele while paul is still talking lmao (via awakenandsee)

#george immediately playing the ukelele like he did not care (via nellslions)

#that is the ukelele playing of someone who was sick of hearing about the gay paris trip 20 years ago (via oopshidaisyy)

#he’s so daddy (in the sense that I identify with all of his fucking embarrassing behavior and need him to stop acting like that in public)#please shut up please get a grip#I fully support george and his passive aggressive ukulele (via faultlessspills)

#george: here's how I remember getting the haircuts#paul: I tHinK yOuLL FiNd it was me and john on our paris honeymoon GEORGE#george: hand me that ukelele I need to shut this fucker up#george sounds quite posh here he must have lost the accent a bit later in life (via slenderfire-blog)

#genuinely love this era for how willing they were willing to (publicly) give each other the business#ringo like i will give you one hundred dollars right now to shut the fuck up about paris#handshake ringo openly cracking up in the studio session with george martin when george asks what album golden slumbers was on#not to mention chekov's ukulele this documentary has everything (via cloudsinmyeyes)

#The ukulele got me#It's like George lives in disney cartoon#and he starts to play every time a cathartic moment happens (via rumyodin)

#george said anyways lalala (via gayyytripper)

#and Ringo's just kind of there listening even though he was also in Hamburg! (via ljblueteak)

#‘not the fucking gay paris trip again’ - George Harrison (via samusaran221)

#losing it at george playing the ukulele over paul’s talking#he’s heard it enough all ready (via thegirlwiththeaxe)

George's ukulele spawning in 😂 (via crashing-a-jeep)

[motherlennon]

god does he love it when Paul is a bitch to the press

[subaru-copilot]

[undying-love]

I still can't believe these quotes are real

Paul: It was as if I was another girlfriend.

John: I wish I was back with Paul.

Paul: If he was to start a new relationship, he had to put this other one away.

John: He was jealous [of Yoko]. Because up till then, he had all my attention, all my love..

Paul: My relationship with John could not have remained as it was and Yoko feel secure.

John: I want a divorce from you like I got from Cynthia.

Paul: He went through all his old affairs, confessed them all. You prove how much you love someone by confessing all that old stuff. John's method was to slag me off.

John: I was riding on the boat called Paul, and now I'm going to ride on a boat called Yoko.

Paul: We were like married, so you got the bitterness. It’s not a woman scorned this time, it’s two men scorned — probably even worse.

John: A song by an old, estranged fiancée of mine called Paul.

Paul: You just don’t want to know about your ex-wife or ex-husband. After all the bitchiness, you feel the desire for a complete break.

John: Being around Paul gave me a sense of stability. When I met Yoko, I knew it was time to cut myself loose.

Paul: I couldn’t stand in the way of someone who’d fallen in love. You can’t say, “Who’s this?” You can’t really do that. If I was a girl, maybe I could go out and…

John: There may be two [in the band] who sort of go off and are friends, you know...strictly platonic, of course.

Paul: There was John's attempt to get rid of the spectre of me, which I understand, because he had to clear the decks just like I did

John: I've compared it to a marriage a million times. It was a LONG relationship. It started many, many years before the public knew us. Paul and I were together since he was 15, and I was 16.

Paul: We spurred each other into marriage. [John and Yoko] were very strong together, which left me out of the picture. So I got together with Linda...

[johnylovespaulie]

Another Kind Of Mind : New episode! The summer of love😍

[homicidalbrunette]

Love this bit of weaponized incompetence John does for Paul's attention

Going from playing She Came In Through The Bathroom Window easily and without looking at any notes...

...to saying he has no idea how to play it and making Paul come show him and then they have an excuse to touch, just coincidentally of course.

[shy-attention-whore]

me, whenever someone asks what I like to do for fun

[poisedwalrus]

📚 Must I Paint You a Picture by Sminking 📚

[paulandjohn]

The News Today OH BOY!

Podcast Episode · Another Kind of Mind: A Different Kind of Beatles Podcast · 04/03/2025 · 1h 7m

@anotherkindofmindpod new podcast episode! Woohoo!

[undying-love]

hello! first, thank u for all ur work re compiling info on john and paul!! I wanted to ask if you'd heard anything about the song "girl" as being about paul, actually. I swear I'd seen speculation about it before and am thinking you had some post about it or if it's something I completely made up??

Hi!! I don't have any post about it. The only time I have heard someone speculate about Girl being about Paul was Rob Sheffield, in one episode of the podcast Another Kind of Mind. I think it's this one: https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-nfrh3-1277b09?utm_campaign=w_share_ep&utm_medium=dlink&utm_source=w_share