The Love of the Loved

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Cilla (2014) Lennstein just DOES things to me

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Beatles Book Monthly 01 (August 1963)

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Brian came home with the record “Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever.” Joanne my sister was just a little girl [and] she kept saying to Brian, “more ‘Penny,’ more ‘Penny Lane.’”

Henry Brian Epstein, Brian’s nephew, via Facebook. Brian is photographed with Joanne in 1967, having returned to Liverpool for his father’s funeral. According to Henry, the beaded necklace Joanne is wearing was made for her by John Lennon.

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"Brian sometimes visited Peter’s home in Gloucester Terrace, but he also trusted him sufficiently to give him a key to his Knightsbridge flat. There, a surly John Lennon suspected Bourne's role as a new boyfriend of Brian when he already had one [Diz Gillespie]. 'I think John approved of the other boy and I was somebody strange and new.' Brian, says Bourne, 'absolutely worshipped John Lennon.' "...'Being gay obviously made him very lonely because he couldn't discuss it with his closest friends. They all knew. They were okay about it: "Well, Brian is gay and that's it." But they didn't want to know anything about that, really. I got the impression he didn't talk to people intimately very much. Lennon was probably the only one.'"

Peter "Bette" Bourne, Brian Epstein's boyfriend in 1964, via The Man Who Made the Beatles by Ray Coleman

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THEY WERE LOVERSSSS

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For anyone who's interested in Lonnie Trimble, Brian's houseman, friend, and confidant for two years of his life, do check out this wonderful video! I've found him rather difficult to discover info about so I was overjoyed when I stumbled upon this. He was truly such an interesting and underrepresented figure not only in Brian's story but the Beatles' as well!

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I can’t stop thinking about the scene from The Birth of the Beatles where Brian hides out in his office for days because he doesn’t want anyone to see the wounds from his most recent gay bashing. Then John just charges in and sees Brian all bruised and tussled. Brian says, “I’m so ashamed,” and then John just comforts him. Like-

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Brian Epstein at the Saville Theatre, circa 1967

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june light turns to moonlight (4590 words) by modrockmocker Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Beatles (Band) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Brian Epstein/John Lennon, Brian Epstein/Diz Gillespie Characters: Brian Epstein, John Lennon, Diz Gillespie Additional Tags: Implied/Referenced Abuse, Protective John Lennon, Unreliable Narrator, Complicated Relationships Summary: Brian visits John at home. A special visitor is with him.

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George Martin in Miami, 1964

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George: I sign the autograph [even if I'm in the middle of a meal] and thank them profusely for coming over, and offer them a piece of my chop. John: If we’re in the middle of a meal, I usually say, "Do you mind waiting till I’m finished?" George: And then we keep eating until they give up and leave. John: That’s not true, Beatle people!

The Beatles for Playboy, 28 October 1964

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Wherever he is today, I hope Tommy Quickly is happy and healthy

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What we need as a society is more Lennstein smut

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I loooove early days, Paris trip you are my everything

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people get so mad when you tell them that their lowbrow entertainment they enjoy is actually lowbrow

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everyone wants their self-indulgent romantasy to be considered high literature and whatever new mainstream pop boy/girl to be treated as the next beethoven and their gay fluff show on streaming apps to be revolutionary art changing the world and like, they're not. and that's okay. i'm literally watching the stupidest show right now and it's fine. it doesn't have to be more.

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there's also the argument of how pop culture used to be the trickle down from high culture for the longest time but now it's an ouroboros eating itself as access and willingness to engage with high culture have been systematically destroyed and diminished through the last decades so your popcorn flick moviemaker now only gets inspiration from other popcorn flicks when their foreparents used to actually read literature and see art of all kinds and your pop musicians used to listen to all sorts of new and old music rather than just their contemporaries/competition and maybe this absence of any sort of culture outside of our easy algorithms is why everyone's so defensive of what they passively consume and so attached to it as a part of their identity but that's a discussion for another day

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Beatles Book Monthly 01 (August 1963)

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