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beatlemaniac00-deactivated20240

John Mulaney Quotes as songs by The Beatles

She’s Leaving Home

Drive My Car

Run For Your Life

Norwegian Wood

Eleanor Rigby

I Am The Walrus

She said, she said

Revolution 9

Hello, goodbye

Help!

Let it be

With A Little Help From My Friends

I Need You

archived-themagicalmysticalboy

ranking the beatles based on if they’d call me a homophobic slur:

George: 10/10 wouldn’t call me a slur even if i stole his wife from him

John: also gay/10 he probably would call me a dyke or something but it’s gay on gay crime, buddy

Paul: 6/10 he’d try to be cool but get nervous if i actually talked abt my sexuality and say something off color

Ringo: 9/10 most likely would not call me a slur and would give me the honorary queer salute (peace sign) without even knowing it

archived-themagicalmysticalboy

ranking the beatles wives based on if they’d call me a homophobic slur:

Pattie: 10/10 wouldn’t dream of it

Olivia: 10/10 wouldn’t dream of it

Bob Dylan: also gay/10 he’d try to make a poetic political statement and call me a slur for the dramatic impact 💗

Cynthia: 7/10 i feel like she would have in college and i can’t explain why. i think it’s just the poor decision making of dating John Lennon that’s getting me

Yoko: 5/10 she’s giving very much the 70s “feminism! but lesbians don’t count”. she keeps points bc marrying john is its own punishment

Linda: 10/10 bc she’d have to fix whatever paul was trying to say

Maureen: 7/10 for the same reason as Cyn

johnmccharmly

BOB DYLAN. GOODBYE.

Finally people are appreciating the George/Bob situation.

#im crying #bob dylan fnjghkf

beatlesy-blog

But love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard, or just think it’s gonna get on with itself. You gotta keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it, and be careful of it.

Remembering John Winston Lennon (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980)

thedissenters

Paul McCartney at his father's home in Gayton in the Wirral, Cheshire | July 1968

eppysboys

George Harrison in Get Back - Part One

blondecasino

"'Cause all these songs of mine, I could give them to people, who could do them good."

George Harrison talking to John Lennon about his intention of releasing a solo album of unused songs in "The Beatles: Get Back".

S1.E3 - Part Three.

#i also love yoko encouraging him

carolsturka

#its rly weird cuz as a beatles fan i've always seen john as a goof #its like the perception of him nowadays is either terrible pos woman beater #or a god on par w mlk and gandhi #no inbetween #like #he was a person who was very complicated #and owned up to his mistakes #and was also hilarious

deactivated-blog

still screaming and crying @ the lennon estate's greatest impact in society: making john lennon, funny beatle extraordinaire, into such a bland soulless figure that mere 40 years after his death people are already like, "wait, this guy told JOKES???"

#they're so boring like #they waaay overplay his activism #and portray him as a martyr for peace #and the general public weirdly ignores paul's activism which comes off far more genuine to me #but those are just my opinions #john was a fucking clown they'll never change that

thedoubteriswise

not to be a beatles fan on main but I just sat through the first part of the new Get Back series and like. the older I get the more traumatizing fame seems. I can't even be mad at these guys for their shitty personalities because the situation they live in is so unbelievably damaging that any insane behavior you can imagine would be downright predictable. they need to go to one of those sanctuaries for entertainment animals who should never have been in a circus in the first place

james-winston

Several years ago I started researching to make a long post about the impact fame had on The Beatles, but I never got around to finishing it. What always stuck with me though is just how dangerous fame is. Fame literally killed John. Chapman initially planned to shoot someone else, but considered John more famous. George’s attempted murder in 2000 surely sped up his death in 2001. Alcoholism almost destroyed Ringo in the 70′s and 80′s. The fact that the worst Paul seems to have come away with is a warped perception of himself and the world is amazing.

Given the small pool of subjects, there's very little research on the psychological impact of extended and profound fame. There's only a handful of people on earth who can even relate to Paul and Ringo’s set of circumstances. One study I read (coincidentally by a guy from Liverpool John Moores University) found that the power you get from fame has a similar impact on the brain as cocaine. The same study also found that if you're famous for more than 5 years your life span shortens by around 20 years.

Obviously the damage caused by fame is on a spectrum, the extreme end being assassination, but all four of The Beatles experienced a myriad of smaller traumas as well. One biographer talked about how John, “couldn’t bear to be touched uninvited by strangers,” and Paul commented on how, “embarrassing,” it was to be grabbed/kissed in public.

George seems to have gotten the worst of it by far. His wife Olivia describes him as having PTSD. After Beatlemania he developed claustrophobia, and would often have recurring nightmares where he would hear people screaming. He hated loud noises and “didn’t want to be startled.” He worried about being assassinated due to the constant death threats. Michael Palin describes walking down the street with George who would often begin, “getting a little twitchy [like] an animal in a searchlight.” Tom Petty spoke about George refusing to join him on stage on tour because it was, “so loud and smokey, and they’re acting so crazy.”

When The Beatles landed in America in February 1964, George was 20 years old. Paul was 21. John and Ringo were 23.

#it makes me think of britney and what happened to her #and her actions were actually completely understandable given her circumstances #the beatles had tons of stalkers and were regularly sexually harassed #no privacy existed #its even worse now w paparazzi and social media

kunosoura

I think all the British hate online is just homophobia. Like be real with me you heard about this quaint, rainy little island where people bum fags and get on their knees for old queens and you just couldn’t handle it, could you? Because they were different.

#i hate yall so much