ayyyy moving on over to @twunklennon mainly to start over because I do this once every 3-5 years when I hit an arbitrary amount of followers. but it's gonna be 100% beatles as well so I'm going to be changing my tagging system and moving my mutuals only over to that account as well where I'll put everything non beatle related. it's an organization thing + personal reasons but. follow me over there if you want!
I'm gonna be following people as I remember to so if we're mutuals here and you'd like to stay mutuals feel free to follow me and I'll follow back there :) just working through as I go
ayyyy moving on over to @twunklennon mainly to start over because I do this once every 3-5 years when I hit an arbitrary amount of followers. but it's gonna be 100% beatles as well so I'm going to be changing my tagging system and moving my mutuals only over to that account as well where I'll put everything non beatle related. it's an organization thing + personal reasons but. follow me over there if you want!
I'm gonna be following people as I remember to so if we're mutuals here and you'd like to stay mutuals feel free to follow me and I'll follow back there :) just working through as I go
are you going to leave all the posts over here up? It would really be a loss for them to all disappear : (
yeah I'm leaving them up! I think the only blog I've ever deleted was one from when I was 12. I have the world's worst memory so I like keeping up all my blogs unless I just barely posted on them
Man on the Run Interview Recap: 'an artist who must reinvent himself without the Beatles and with his great ally and love, Linda McCartney. But he never fell out of love with John Lennon.'
With the new documentary 'Man on the Run' out, there's been some really good press for it. @destrokkit put me on to one great interview with the man who interviewed Paul for it which I highly recommend
Morgan Neville’s ‘Man on the Run’ premiered at the Telluride Film Festival, showcasing Paul McCartney’s life after the Beatles.
Some stare at the wall highlights:
We're just saying it about John and Paul now:
“Man on the Run” reveals an artist who must reinvent himself without the Beatles and with his great ally and love, Linda McCartney. But he never fell out of love with John Lennon.
The man who interviewed Paul for the documentary sees John as a daily presence in Paul's life
In watching ‘Get Back,’ which I devoured as soon as it came out, you see how much real love that he still has, to the point where John is in his life every day. And I’m not exaggerating. I have no doubt he thinks about John every day, if not many times a day. So it’s not something that’s distant to him. It’s something that he holds onto.
Paul started thinking about doing a documentary about the time period because Get Back finally allowed him to forgive himself for the break-up. Paullllllll
It’s something I’m piecing together from talking to Paul again just a couple weeks ago, in the beginning of the film where he said, “I thought myself as the bastard, when people blame me for all this.” He internalized it, and that period of ‘Let It Be,’ and then suing the band was so painful. And the “Get Back” project actually opened up something in him, saying it wasn’t all bad. Everybody said everything was horrible, but actually it was much more nuanced. There was love, there was tension. And that process of self-forgiveness was the reason this film happened: if that wasn’t that bad, maybe I should think about this other period that I’ve also pushed out of my head in a lot of ways. And that’s amazing that still 50 years later, that’s still going on.
Paul's archive is apparently massive (please Paul I just want a peek one tiny little peeeeek) 👀
Linnddaaaa :(((((((((
I always felt like that decade and the bookends of McCartney, one and two: leaving the Beatles and John’s passing, and running away from the Beatles and what he had done for that decade. And I definitely thought about Linda’s death and we played with it, but it just felt extraneous in a way that Linda did live on for another 17 years past this time. And when I showed Paul the film, he said, “I’m so glad that you left Linda at the end of the film like that.”
I don’t think anybody’s ever understood what Linda meant to Paul in all ways. And that’s what my wife means to me: having somebody who can be your wingman in every imaginable way, who has your back, is the greatest thing. That’s what you need to survive.
Although Linda is seen as a major presence in the film and and to Paul, her grandson has never heard her voice which is heartbreaking, they have this much footage and the grandkids don't know enough to even know what Linda sounds like? :((
Paul's grandson also didnt know that grandpa was a felon. Honey you have a big storm coming hahahahaa
It's a great read and not a long one so highly recommend to anyone because christ alive some of the quotes from it are like being punched in the face.
"I'm just a girl☺️🥰💖💞💅🌺🌷🦄" when you were eight and the teacher said she needed some strong boys to carry something you used to be furious, and when you convinced them to let you help, you carried twice as many chairs as the boys with the righteous anger of a girl who knew she was just as capable as them. Where did that go?
the info about Jim not signing Paul's contract (bcs Paul wasn't 21 at the time, so Paul couldn't sign it himself) came from ''all you need is love" book that was released last year. that part was actually from a direct interview with Dick James from around the fall of 1980. but here it is in full:
But when it came to signing John Lennon and Paul McCartney publishing, to be called Northern Songs, Paul was under twenty-one. Jim McCartney, his father, objected to him being published by a London publisher. He said to Brian, “Why can’t he publish with a Liverpool publisher?” Brian said, “Well, for the simple reason that there aren’t any. You know that. And there aren’t any in Manchester, and there aren’t any in Birmingham. The publishers are all in London.”
Jim dug his heels in and refused to sign. I remember John saying to Paul, “Come on, sign the bloody thing.” Brian said, “No, not, not until he’s twenty-one. That’s the way it’s done.” Paul asked, “Will you have patience? I’m twenty-one in June. And the day I’m twenty-one, I’ll sign the contract.”
Like Jim not acknowledging Mary’s death or being present for his children during their grief is objectively traumatizing. Like I don’t think they knew Mary was as sick as she was and then she’s suddenly dead and people are telling you to just move on. Also Paul asking what they would do without her money makes me think Jim was not trusted as a stable presence Paul could rely on.
so much of how he parented is just objectively traumatizing honestly. but honestly it seems like he just had a very unstable childhood with money & finances and it's pretty common in lower income households for that to be way too much of a topic of discussion with the kids around who wind up shouldering a Lot of it. which isn't necessarily abuse in itself, but it is a part of growing up poor that's incredibly traumatizing.
and i do always wonder how that conversation went. like was mary the one not wanting to tell them how sick she was? was that a joint decision? like i see the want to protect your children from the stress of a parent dying, but i do think with like. how paul behaves and how him & mike talk about their childhood, it seems more like those sorts of things just weren't talked about or acknowledged in general. something that should have come with warning and time to cope was instead a very sudden death.
and that's not even getting into the emotional & physical & financial abuse that him and mike went through (though mostly paul on the financial aspect, mike wasn't making that kind of money and as far as i know jim wasn't controlling his finances into his 20s like he was doing with paul)
and i'm glad that fandom talks about it more but i really wish it was something that was acknowledged in more of the bios and like "beatle academia" section of discussion, bc paul's childhood is always presented as very idyllic in comparison to john specifically. like how many times have we heard beatle biographers go on about how paul had two loving parents and a huge family, as opposed to john who gets talked about like he was little orphan annie? and that's not to say john's childhood WASN'T traumatic, it definitely was, but it's just wild. of course, a part of it is paul himself, who also pushes this by comparing himself and john a lot, but i think a lot of victims have a tendency to do that. i do that too, where i'll see someone with "worse" trauma and immediately invalidate my own
but i think it's very necessary in understanding him as a Person to talk about how rough his childhood was, because even though he himself always compares it to john's to say it wasn't that bad, it did have a huge impact on him as a person and like. all of his future decisions. especially around finances & emotions.
idk about controlling, I might have used the wrong word there really, but he and paul did have a joint bank account until after paul & linda were married:
The cash for everything came out of a joint account held by Jim and Paul. Into this account came Paul's music publishing money from Northern Songs. Frequently, after a chat with Paul, Jim would pay bills for relatives. A nephew might be having the phone cut off, or a sister might need a new piece of furniture. Much later on, after Paul and Linda had married, a financial affiars man came from London. He went through all the household expenses and told my mum that Paul and Linda wanted to know what it cost to run Rembrandt so that they could make a specific annual allowance. The joint account was closed at that stage.
(ruth mccartney, "my stepbrother was a beatle", 1982)
and I can't find it rn so maybe someone else has it but there was a time when jim wasn't signing like certain documents/etc for the band on pauls behalf bc he still legally couldn't sign for himself until he was 21 but I can't remember the exact circumstances around that one just that I read it and went wow this guy kind of sucks so bad
edit: thank you, anon, for finding the quote!! it's from dick james in 1980 but found in all you need is love by peter brown & steven gaines:
But when it came to signing John Lennon and Paul McCartney publishing, to be called Northern Songs, Paul was under twenty-one. Jim McCartney, his father, objected to him being published by a London publisher. He said to Brian, "Why can’t he publish with a Liverpool publisher?" Brian said, "Well, for the simple reason that there aren’t any. You know that. And there aren’t any in Manchester, and there aren’t any in Birmingham. The publishers are all in London."
Jim dug his heels in and refused to sign. I remember John saying to Paul, "Come on, sign the bloody thing." Brian said, "No, not, not until he’s twenty-one. That’s the way it’s done." Paul asked, "Will you have patience? I’m twenty-one in June. And the day I’m twenty-one, I’ll sign the contract."
one time when I was a kid my parents were arguing while we were driving somewhere and I was in the backseat so I wrote "are you going to get a divorce" on my foot and slowly extended my leg betwixt the seats
I don’t know who you are referring to as ‘the bully’ but it sounds like your mutuals do from the one post where they are all discussing the person, and sorry, but it’s unsettling if you know their age and that they are married with kids because no one discloses that kind of information on tumblr so I can only imagine that you are discussing people on a server - people who don’t know that they are being discussed. And that feels like bullying. Maybe you think that it doesn’t count because you are vagueposting, but it certainly doesn’t set you apart from whoever they are.
if you would look at the notes on that post you can see that there are many people from many fandoms reblogging it which does imply that it is a broad issue i'm talking about and not a specific person! i hope this helps
realizing u meant one of my friends tagging it "don't you have kids to take care of" or smth along those lines which fasjdfasdfasdf promise you all that's not anyone targeting a specific person with personal info it's a joke like "don't you have taxes to pay"
there just happen to be many 40 year olds with children who bully people online. it's a reoccurring thing that happens. have we not all been bullied by a 40 year old fandom mom with children
English singer, songwriter and musician Paul McCartney in a studio to record ‘The Family Way’, November 1966. Composed for the film of the same name, ‘The Family Way’ is considered by many to be the first Beatles solo album. A photoshoot for The Sunday Times.
