The Beatles (In My Life)

A twenty-something casual fan girl turned beatlemaniac rediscovering The Beatles one album, song, video, book, and photo at a time. Because this world can always benefit from more peace, love, humor, and great music from the best band of all time!

[stopandimagineloveforever]

Paul McCartney headlines Glastonbury!

(Mary took these bts videos)

June 25, 2022

[eppysboys]

klausvoormannofficial: Today - June 18th - is Pauls 80th birthday. But what to give such a great artist, human and friend on this feast day? I decided to draw a birthday card in memory of our session which took place May 2008 in Pauls Hog Hill Mill studio. It was his generous gift on the occasion of my 70th birthday.

1961 I first held a bass guitar in my hands. Stuart Sutcliff’s President Bass in the Top Ten Club in Hamburg. At that time Paul was still the pianist of the Beatles band. He waved to me to come up on stage. But I was to shy and sat in front of the stage. We played the Fats Domino Song “I’m in Love Again” with the Beatles. 46 years later Paul and I were sitting in his Hog Hill Mill studio pulled out of a box of nostalgic songs for my very first own album. Paul sat at the piano in his white shirt, vest, and jeans, as though he had just come straight from the Liverpool Cavern Club. I sat beside him, a bit nervous with a President bass model in my hands, from the same Hoefner series as Stuart’s instrument back then.

Instead of 2 hours as originally planned we were at it for 3,4,5 hours. Paul, as always, the absolute professional, could not be stopped on this Monday in May. He was in high spirits and infected us all. He played all overdubs: Paul on drums, Paul on acoustic guitar, Paul on the E-guitar (….That’s an Epiphone, one of my favourites. We played it on “Taxman” and “Paperback Writer”…) Paul with a toy harmonica out of a gum machine, Paul on the Hammond organ. We were floating through sounds and memories and lost all sense of time and place.

Before he left home he picked roses for Christina, me and himself from a bush in front of the studio. „ This is a McCartney Rose“, he said. „ Did you invent it“. „Yes, I was up all night“, he answered and laughed mischievously.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAUL AND WELCOME TO THE ROCKING 80TH-CLUB !

[charlottesharlottes]

Sean Ono Lennon’s instagram: A little birdy told me this was one of your your fav Beatles tunes. So Happy Birthday! Thank you for all the beautiful music. You have mine and the whole world’s undying love and respect. (This version is a bit rough because it’s such a pretty song I kept getting choked up and staring again!)

[s-i-r-b-o-o-t-s-deactivated2023]

[davidhudson]

Happy 79th, Paul McCartney.

[bluebeatlesgirls]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAUL MCCARTNEY

"Music is like a psychiatrist. You can tell your guitar things that you can't tell people. And it will answer you with things people can't tell you" -Paul McCartney

"I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird" -Paul McCartney

"I only ever asked two people to work with me as a partner. One was Paul McCartney and the other Yoko Ono" -John Lennon

"I'm in awe of McCartney. He's about the only one that I am in awe of. He can do it all. And he's never let up. He's got the gift for melody, he's got the rhythm, he can play any instrument. He can scream and shout as good as anybody, and he can sing a ballad as good as anybody. And his melodies are effortless, that's what you have to be in awe of... He's just so damn effortless. I just wish he'd quit [laughs]. Everything that comes out of his mouth is just framed in melody" -Bob Dylan

"Doris Day, who I know a little bit, once said to me, "Age is an illusion." I reminded her of it recently - I was wishing her a happy birthday. People say age is a number. It's a big number the older you get. But if it doesn't interfere, I'm not bothered. You can ignore it. That's what I do" -Paul McCartney

June 18th, 1942. 79 years ago

[agonisedghost]

[eppysboys]

Happy 79th Birthday Sir Paul McCartney!

“From ‘Eleanor Rigby’ and all its lonely people, to ‘Mr Bellamy’ (the 2007 tale of a would-be suicide) a strand in Paul’s story songs has been the everyday outsider, trapped in the social margins. The quietly compassionate ‘Footprints’, on Press to Play, personifies another stubborn loner, as invisible to society as the lives of quiet desperation he enacts in ‘Teddy Boy’ or ‘Another Day’. You can hear the same well of fellow-feeling being tapped in ‘Treat Her Gently/Lonely Old People’ from Venus and Mars – an intelligent sympathy for the forgotten. If McCartney could be said to have a signature song, it could perhaps be ‘With a Little Luck’: the gentle optimism that seeks no higher (or lower) purpose than to help us all along.”  Paul Du Noyer, Conversations with McCartney

[way-beyond-compare]

From Stella McCartney’s Instagram 😭❤️❤️

[misanthrope1993]

Wembley Arena, London, England, 7 December 1979

[soundsofmyuniverse]

Happy Birthday Paul McCartney // June 18, 1942.

I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.

[archived-themagicalmysticalboy]

RINGO!

DID YOU HAVE TO DO HIM DIRTY LIKE THAT ON HIS BDAY?!?!?!

[lovely-beatles]

Paul’s love for buses is amazing

[cultofbeatles]

“I never thought of them as ‘white guys’ they were The Beatles! They were colorless. And they were fucking amazing!”

Whoopi Goldberg in The Beatles: Eight Days A Week - The Touring Years

[longforyesterday]

Like so many fans, John took steps to turn into his hero [Bob Dylan]. His voice grew more rasping, his attitude more sarky, his lyrics more opaque. Years later, he told the photographer David Bailey about these replicant instincts. ‘He said to me, “Y’know, when I’ve discovered someone new, I tend to become that person. I want to soak myself in their stuff to such an extent that I have to be them.” When he first found Dylan, he said, he would dress like Dylan and only play his kind of music, till he kind of understood how it worked.’ During one recording session, George Martin had to ask John if he could try to sound less like Bob Dylan. ‘He wasn’t doing it deliberately. It was subconscious more than anything.’

Craig Brown, One Two Three Four – The Beatles in Time

[twentyeightif]

what’s wrong babe? *breakdances slowly* 😔

[thebeatlesbw]