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As they talk, Paul constantly squeezes Linda’s arm reassuringly, strokes her hand or looks to her for approval or agreement whenever he makes a point. The two are inclined to talk at once or to finish each other’s sentences. At times, the link is so tight, they seem almost like different aspects of one person.
Paul and Linda McCartney interviewed for Playgirl, February 1985.
going on a lennon-mccartney coke rant because their 70s/1980 dynamic on john's end was so insane it makes me laugh. john trying his absolute hardest to act like he does Not care about paul whilst being simultaneously SO obsessed is possibly the funniest dynamic ever. laughing at paul getting arrested in his diary and then tweaking out at the idea he was being mistreated in prison. saying his music was shit but having worn down wings/mccartney records in his flat that yoko said they regularly listened to together. disconnecting himself from paul completely then asking his tarot reader how paul's marriage was going (not even going to touch this one). that one recording of him playing uncle albert/admiral halsey drunk at his 1971 birthday party and singing along.... bro we Know you're a fake idgafer!!!!
Interviewer: So Paul, tell us about 'We Two.'
Paul's brain: I am singing about dreaming of John, standing side-by-side with him, and promising to be in love with him until the day I die.
Paul's mouth: Well, we used a Studer four-track machine. And the thing we loved most about it was the snare drum sound. Oh, and we also stuck the tape rewinding at the end because nobody hears that, you know.
“[Dick] James, in fact, was quoted as saying that at the time ATV took over Northern Songs “the wolves stopped baying”. He firmly believed that it would have been wrong to sell Northern Songs to either Lennon or McCartney individually but, even so, he admitted that when he met the two songwriters at McCartney’s St John’s Wood home: “Paul was annoyed but John was inconsolable, he was hurt and I was very sorry.” However before Dick James met up with Northern Songs’ two main creative sources, he had to face the wrath of the other Beatle who was signed to the company. Harrison apparently visited their song publisher in his central London office to make clear his own feelings about the proposed sale and when James, explaining that it was important he moved his shares quickly before the price fell, said it was a very serious matter, Harrison reportedly screamed back at him: “It’s fucking serious to John and Paul is what it is!” According to NEMS director Peter Brown, the songs in Northern Songs represented something very special to the two main composers. “To John and Paul, Northern Songs wasn’t just a collection of compositions, it was like a child, creative flesh and blood and selling it to their business antagonist Sir Lew Grade was like putting that child into an orphanage.””
— Brian Southall, Northern Songs: The True Story of The Beatles’ Song Publishing Empire. (2006)
i would love some info about paul, john and pauls dad jim! maybe jim's relationship with paul, what he thought about john? im so peaked by their strange dynamic in the short time they knew eachother
Paul's relationship with his father is something really complex, and it's a whole other topic that I don't want to get into right now, so I'll just talk about what Jim thought of John. Jim never liked John. From the very beginning, he thought John was a bad influence on Paul. He even tried to get John out of his own group, according to John himself:
"And his dad was the whole thing. Just simple things: he wouldn't go against his dad and wear drainpipe trousers. And his dad was always trying to get me out of the group behind my back, I found out later. He'd say to George: 'Why don't you get rid of John, he's just a lot of trouble. Cut your hair nice and wear baggy trousers.' [...] His dad told him to get a job, he fucking dropped the group and started working on the fucking lorries, saying, 'I need a steady career.'"
Jim was also reportedly "delighted" when Paul got Dot pregnant, which I believe had to do with the fact that this would force Paul to settle down, leave the band, and possibly get away from John. That bad blood seems to have lasted a long time because, in 1971, Ray Connolly was trying to deliver a friendly letter from John to Paul. One day he phoned Paul's London house, and Jim was the one who answered. He immediately and rather angrily shut him down, telling him not to get involved and that "things have already moved on." But I do think there was more to it than simply John's reputation, Jim worrying that he would be a bad influence and get Paul into trouble (which was very true, lol). I'm sure many of you remember that last year I mentioned receiving some second-hand information about someone who spoke to Jim around 1968. Jim apparently still didn't like John. According to this person, Jim said that he and Mimi used to be in somewhat constant contact in the late 50s because neither of them wanted their boys hanging around together, and both became increasingly uneasy about how intensely close they had become, and how quickly it happened. Jim was especially concerned because Paul stopped paying attention in school and was constantly sneaking around to meet John. The person who spoke to Jim got the impression that Jim believed something "taboo" might have been going on between them, and that this was one of the reasons he didn't want them spending so much time together. Colin Hanton also said that Jim made a rule that Paul and John couldn't be alone together in the house, that Jim himself had to be present for John to come inside. But, as we all know, whenever Jim was at work, John would come over anyway. According to Mike McCartney himself, John and Paul would often give him money to go to the movies so he "wouldn't interfere."
Something else I've noticed is that Paul often seems reluctant to admit either that Jim didn't like John or that he and John used to hang around the house while Jim was away at work. Paul does often say that they skipped school to play guitar and write songs together, but he usually doesn't specify that they HAD to sneak around behind Jim's back. Howard Stern actually brought this up in 2013, and Paul sounded a little hesitant:
Howard: Your father, by the way, didn't want you hanging around with John. Paul: Uhh... he... he didn't mind... he didn't mind John, you know. Howard: Didn't he say that John was a bad influence and you had to sneak out and meet with John when you guys were young kids? Paul: Well... almost, you know. But... by the time I met John, uh...I had a little say on the matter.
And to end on a rather funny note, look at the Beatles picture in the background. It actually looks like Jim deliberately hid the right side of the photo—the part where John is supposed to appear—behind the other frame 😂
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my favorite thing paul does in interviews is when he mentions a beatles song and then starts singing it to make sure people know it, like he'll say "we were performing she loves you, you know 'she loves you yeah yeah yeah...'" like you literally don't have to do that. everyone knows that song. you are paul mccartney
My personal favorite is when he goes to tell and a story and he prefaces it with "you know, john and I- john lennon and I-" like yeah no we know that. we know who john is. you are the beatles
Hi Undying!
Hope you’re doing well. I was wondering what your favorite moments or quotes about John and Paul being together were. Just anything you found cute, sweet or funny in regard to John and Paul’s relationship.
Love your blog ❤️☮️
Thanks!
"Paul told countless stories about the echo chamber. He said he’d hide out there with John, kind of giggling and laughing when there would be another session in another studio. If you solo’d any of those tracks you’d probably hear them laughing." (Greg Kurstin)
"Lennon uses others to bring him out of his moodiness. The one who does it best is Paul." (someone who worked on the set of Help!)
"Lennon and McCartney were spotted together, chatting and laughing backstage, at the sixteenth annual Grammy Awards at the Hollywood Palladium [1974]." (Tom Doyle)
"Every week there was a rumor that the Beatles were going to get back together. It had nothing to do with it. But I didn't notice any animosity between John and Paul. The sessions at the Record Plant [in 1972] were interrupted whenever Paul called. They spent hours talking. The next day, an article appeared in the newspaper saying that they hated each other." (Gary Van Scyoc)
"John and Paul were inseparable that night, like Siamese twins. It was like the rest of us didn’t exist. They spent most of the evening talking, conducting a whispery summit in one corner. In the middle of the party they went out, ostensibly looking for a cigarette machine, and appeared some time after carrying a cocky-watchman’s lamp. The next morning, when it was time to leave, we couldn’t get out of the house because they had put cement stolen from the roadworks into the mortise lock so the front door wouldn’t open. And we had to escape through a window.” (Charles Robert)
"They were so tapped into what the other was doing and could sense their partner's next move, they just read each other like a book." (Johnny Gentle)
“Paul and John would come to my father’s place, go upstairs and lock themselves in for hours and hours, listening to records and thumping about up there.” (Julia Baird)
"Paul and John were the best pals. They spent all their time together and stuff, and they had individual lives. But in the end they were the final sort of arbiters of everything between themselves." (John Dunbar)
"Paul and John were so tight it was like one person at times." (Roger McGuinn)
“I was fortunate enough to see them together many times in the late 60’s, and have always been fascinated by what I saw/heard: they finished each other’s sentences, laughed together, just seemed totally in sync. I was a 15-year-old girl, but I did notice that about the two of them and will never forget it.” (Lizzie Bravo)
"The wife of an important member of their movie crew told me, "Paul and John have a way of turning out the others when they're on. George and Ringo sometimes sort of wander away." I observed this too. John and Paul, the songwriters, are often a duet, with George and Ringo acting as loners." (Phyllis Batelle)
"In 1964 the Beatles stayed at the Four Seasons Hotel on the banks of Loch Earn [...] They went to bed early - on Tuesday morning - and slept long after sunrise. John and Paul, who shared a chalet, were out and about first.They took a short walk on the shores of Loch Earn, whetting their appetite for lunch. They found the invigorating fresh air a bit chilly, but waited to try to entice a dog into the loch by throwing sticks for it to retrieve. They later tried their hand at boating and went out on Loch Earn. After some confusion at the start, until everyone had learned how to drive their boats, they went off and beat up the loch for half-an-hour or so. Later on Tuesday a party was held for the four Liverpool tourists by the manager of the hotel and his friends. Paul retired first and John followed." (X)
"They were intensely close, remember, and Paul would do almost anything for John. So, once they were safely inside, Paul took a tablet of LSD for the first time. 'So I could get with John to be with him in his misery and fear.' (George Martin)
"He asked me to join the group, and so we began our trip together. We wrote our first songs together, we grew up together and we lived our lives together. And when we’d do it together, something special would happen. There’d be that little magic spark." (Paul)
"Why don't we take off alone? Take a trip somewhere far, far away We'll be together all alone again Like we used to in the early days"
Happy 84th Birthday Paul! 🎂🎈
I think it’s pretty obvious that John had non-platonic feelings for Paul complicated by mental illness but there’s not any actual evidence Paul had feelings for John beyond friendship.
I could write a 5,000-word essay about this lol, but I will try to be as brief as possible.
To me, this is a fascinating topic because most of the evidence used to show that John was "obviously" in love with Paul has a direct equivalent on Paul's side. The major difference in the narrative usually comes down to Yoko’s statement in Philip Norman's book (though that quote itself is somewhat problematic, as the author admitted to altering some of the wording and adding his own interpretation, like the whole "immovable heterosexuality" term he used to describe Paul). Still, it is treated as the most explicit evidence because it's John's wife discussing his feelings for Paul, alongside her mentioning that John was bisexual. On Paul's side, we have less explicit but highly suggestive statements from his ex-girlfriends, like Francie and Maggie, who implied they believed Paul had feelings for John too. Another major factor that, for many people, seals the evidence for John is his well-documented attraction to men, which he hinted at himself. While Paul is much more guarded, there are subtle details about him that could be interpreted the exact same way; we just don't get the same blunt statements or impulsive behavior that we saw from John. It is worth mentioning, however, that one of his exes called refered to him as closeted and said that he often didn't feel "manly enough", while another noted how defensive he was about his sexuality and how he hated being called queer (and believe it or not, there were plenty of rumours in the 60s about Paul being gay, even Paul himself said this to John Dunbar). We never see speculation about Paul’s sexuality in the media today (or back then either, at least publicly), yet Paul has, for decades, unpromptedly talked about how "completely ungay" and "secure in his sexuality" he is, to the extent that you have to wonder where that defensiveness stems from. None of this really proves anything though, I just thought this could add more nuance to the subject, as many people often claim that Paul's heterosexuality has never been put into question, in constrast to John.
When people point to the "obvious" evidence of John being in love with Paul, they usually compile specific things: John's intense jealousy of Paul's romantic partners; the whole "John never looked at anyone the way he looked at Paul" backed by photo compilations of him gazing at Paul; John expressing physical attraction to Paul ("I fell for his looks," "he looked like Elvis. I dug him"); John being very defensive of Paul and threatening to hit anyone who spoke badly of him; John writing love songs about him; John obsessing over and missing him intensely in the 70s; John rushing to marry Yoko as soon as Paul married Linda; John making sexual jokes about Paul; John moaning Paul’s name during a rehearsal tape; and John constantly using marriage language to describe their bond. But the thing is, we have "evidence" from Paul that has a parallel to every single one of those examples. We have ample instances of Paul being jealous of Yoko (with him reportedly looking disturbed whenever John would talk about how much he loved Yoko) and Stuart (with Paul's own girlfirend at the time mentioning how much Paul hated Stu because of his relationship with John). Interestingly, he didn't seem to be jealous of Cynthia, just as John didn't seem to be jealous of Maggie, Francie, or Dot, all of whom mentioned how well John treated them. We have videos and photos of Paul staring at John just as intensely and lovingly, if not more so. We have Paul using romantic and marriage metaphors even more frequently than John. We have Paul drunkenly murmuring John's name over and over in a studio in the late 70s. We have examples of Paul being fiercely defensive of John, with witnesses stating he would literally leave the room if someone spoke badly of him. Paul made suggestive jokes about him and John, wrote emotionally loaded, romantically coded songs about John, and people close to him in the 70s reported how deeply he missed John, calling it a "huge hole" in his life. Paul also made repeated comments about John's looks (often whenever he's talking about seeing John at the church fete) that seem to imply physical attraction: "He looks good. I wouldn't mind being in a group with him," or "He had beautiful hands" (Paul loved hands btw. A friend of his mentioned how he'd go on and on about Linda's hands). He even admitted to coming to love John's "beery breath" and recalled seeing him at the fete by saying, "I just thought, ‘Well, he looks good...’ Of course, he had his glasses off, so he looked really suave." People dwell on John rushing to get married after Paul, but they forget that Paul himself admitted his own wedding to Linda was (at least partly) spurred by John being so close to Yoko that Paul felt left out and reacted by getting married ("we spurred each other into marriage"). You should also compare the way he talks about John vs the way he talks about any other of his friends. It could not be more different.
Ultimately, the thing that makes John's evidence stand out more to the public is simply that John was more blunt and direct, and his behavior was more impulsive and shocking, making the "evidence" from Paul's side appear more understated by comparison. But we do have plenty of people who knew them well talk about the intensity going both ways, and not one-sided at all. And, as I pointed out, for every piece of "evidence" used to argue that John was in love with Paul, there's often a comparable and compelling "evidence" that can be used to argue the same for Paul.
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I don’t “remember” facts and history about The Beatles, I’m haunted by them