"One time Paul had a chick in bed and John came in and got a pair of scissors and cut all her clothes into pieces and then wrecked the wardrobe. He got like that occasionally; it was because of the pills and being up too long."
[The Beatles Anthology, 1995]
In this part of the book, George contextualizes John Lennon’s erratic and sometimes aggressive behavior during the Hamburg years, explaining that his bizarre actions were amplified by extreme exhaustion and the use of amphetamines (Preludin) to cope with the long performance hours.
It must be awful to hate John Lennon because he's simply eternal and you can't pretend he doesn't exist. As a fan, I feel lovely.
A never before released John Lennon's song in 2026 in The Beatles' Rubber Soul Deluxe Edition.
this blog is dedicated to transcribing the nagra reels: 97 hours of bootlegged audio from the beatles get back sessions
as you may or may not know, this project was started by someone who has since left the beatles community here on tumblr, but they have kindly let me take up the mantle for them. so huge thank you to them!!
ABOUT THE NAGRA REELS
in 1969, during the get back sessions, director michael lindsay-hogg was creating Let It Be, a documentary about the beatles. he filmed and recorded every moment of them in the studio, resulting in 97 hours of content on nagra tape recorders. (peter jackson used a lot of it for The Beatles: Get Back, but obviously not nearly all of it.) in short, the tapes were stolen, bootlegged, and eventually digitized. but there's still no full transcription of them publicly available, so that's what I set out to do!
thank you to: purple chick, pc_eclipse, hexer, rogerlancelot, and jameskg for doing all the hard bootlegging work in the 2000s.
i'm using the version available on the internet archive, as i do not have the patience nor the storage for flacs. lol.
INFO
my track title format is: Disc- TrackNo- Title DDSI
for example: D1- 08- Don't Let Me Down 2.01
the track tagging is not 100% accurate! it was done by jameskg, and a small bit of it is incorrect. in the name of a smooth readalong experience, i won't be fixing any of those errors. they're not huge ones anyway. i'm sure you won't even notice.
i'm using the format that the original blog kickstarted, and half of the first day heavily utilizes their transcriptions (thank you again!)
each day will be separated into posts corresponding with discs. if necessary, the discs MIGHT have to be separated into multiple posts. but that's insanely tedious, so i'm trying my best not to do that.
i'm using US spelling and grammar for everything because i am, in fact, american. sorry!
however. dates are going to be in dd/mm/yyyy format.
each post is going to be LONG. be warned.
i want this to be as accurate as possible, so please shoot me an ask/comment/dm if you find any mistakes!
ABOUT ME
my name is sash!
i'm 18 and doing this all on my own, so please be patient
(About McCartney) LENNON: "Really talked to him, no, that's the operative word. I haven't really talked to him in ten years. Because I haven't spent time with him. I've been doing other things and so has he. You know, he's got 25 kids and about 20,000,000 records out. How can he spend time talking? He's always working."
also while doing some research (scrolling on pinterest) on british wwii military uniforms i came to the conclusion that “major” mccartney would actually be a colonel due to the shoulder insignia (which is actually called an epaulette!) and hat he wears! but i don’t think colonel mccartney has the same ring to it 🧐 just a fun little factoid though 🙂
I feel like we have way too much evidence that if any other ship had even one of these moments, the fandom would absolutely explode. But we've just so used to it that we move on way too fast.
Wdym this whole 1961 Paris trip??? Wdym my Cheri Pau Pau? Wdym If I fell photocard?? Wdym Paul write Beatles and John name all over the notebook just like a teenage school crush? Wdym secret code? Wdym they playing thisbe and pyramus as a pair of lover? Wdym Is this a self portrait? Wdym John write a novel that the male character having sex with Amie L'Nitrate in the Paris hotel(Paris again, oh god) while listen to God Only Knows aka Paul favourite song?? Wdym John and Paul marriage are just 8 days apart? Wdym in bed? Wdym "it's only me? I'm still the guy you love in Liverpool"? Wdym I don't know(Johnny Johnny) tape? Wdym "If I was a girl, maybe I could go out and..." and I haven't mention songs that wrote for each other, and the list just keep go on and on WTF
Mclennon truther we are truly the stronger soldier after ppl keep denial their relationship. It's not even rpf anymore, atp it's doing historic research, cause how does no biographer or researcher able to explain what's happening in India??
"they are platonic relationship" my ASS. Come on if one of them are girl IT'S TEEN PREGNANCY, IT'S BIG FAMILY WITH 10 KIDS. but bc it's the beatles, those homophobic male fans rather hype up the Paul is dead theory will look into your eyes and said yeah they are brother who wank each other.
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