[bitchontheprairie]

longhorn sheep looking through a window, 1981, linda mccartney

[tavolgisvist]

Lucky Spot looking through the window, 1977, by Linda McCartney (x)

[lunar-harrisons]

george during get back I think

[sexchangedotcom]

thank you for tuning in to faggot fm i’m your dj sexchange.com we've got some hits lined up for you tonight. semen and girlfunkel, joan bi-ez, gay bob dylan and kicking us off as always are the normal beatles

[giveyourhearttosomebody]

[1967mccartney]

Paul McCartney, photographed by Gered Mankowitz at Decca Studios, London, 1967 📸

[woodstock-in-my-mind]

I Wanna Hold Your Hand (Dir. Robert Zemeckis, 1978)

[underthecitysky]

SEAN ONO LENNON: It's almost like when you see twins in a family, brothers who are twins. The twins really start to latch on to tiny things that distinguish them from each other, like I'm the one who's into these kinds of records, and you're the one who's into those kinds of records' Because they're twins, so they really want to distinguish themselves. But I feel like if you zoom out and look at The Beatles, especially my dad and Paul, you realise that in the big picture they're much more the same than they are different.

SEAN ONO LENNON: Musically, I think Paul has this once-in-a-generation talent that obviously he nurtured and developed, but there's something God-given there that's undeniable. Like, you hear about Mozart memorising entire operas when he was seven years old. I think Paul really did have that ability musically, in a different way than my dad did. I think everyone recognises that about Paul McCartney, especially my dad. He was probably one of the first people to recognise it.

SEAN ONO LENNON: I think one of the other remarkable things, since we're on the topic of Paul's remarkable remark-ableness, is just that he had such a long and beautiful relationship with Linda. I remember a time when he came to the Dakota with Linda to meet my mom about the [Beatles] Anthology or something silly like that. Not that the Anthology was silly, but it was something business-related. I remember there was some tension between Paul and my mom. Let's just say my mom could get a little bit testy some-times. And I'll never forget, Linda just reached out and grabbed her hand, and grabbed Paul's hand. And she just goes, 'Hey, come on, guys. Like, we're hippies. Like, it's all about love. Let's just relax. It's love. We love each other!'

I'll never forget that. I just looked at her. I was like, 'Who? This person is so an-gelic' Linda just had such a good energy.

I could see as soon as she grabbed Paul's hand and my mom's hand. They both just relaxed. It was like they both came back into their bodies and were like, 'Oh yeah!

Like, what are we doing?' I don't know if I'm allowed to say this ... but then we smoked a joint. And it was cool! It was really cool, because it just seemed so sim-ple. Like, how easy is it to just not worry about the business stuff, or whatever the dispute might be? 'Just remember that we're hippies and we love each other and it's cool!'

I'll never forget that moment because it just really humanised my mom and Paul to me. It just made me realise that they're just humans. Despite all of the whatever tension over the years, it was that easy to let it go. And Linda had that sort of magic, that love energy in her. I think that reflects very beautifully on Paul. All you need to know is that he had that beautiful relationship and that they were such great parents. That, in the end, is the measure of a man. Both my dad and Paul had such strong women to be partners with.

-Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run

[subaru-copilot]

[underthecitysky]

TWIGGY: Paul and Linda used to go up to Liverpool for New Year's. Paul said, 'You've got to come up, it's brilliant! We stayed in his dad's house. And on New Year's Eve, they used to drive over to his uncle Joe's, which was in another part of Liverpool. I think his dad had moved to a posher part of Liverpool. We were on the other side of the Mersey. I didn't know Liverpool at all. I'd never been there.

Anyway, we all climbed into a big old Land Rover. But the way Paul knew how to get to his uncle's wasn't there anymore,and there was no satnav [GPS] in those days, so he got lost. Paul McCartney got lost in Liverpool!

By now, we're running late, real rock and roll time. It's, like, twenty to mid-night. We stop by this pub. And out from the pub comes this terribly happy young chap, none the worse for wear. He's staggering down the road. Paul stops the car and he winds the window down. And you've got to remember, in Liverpool, Paul is like a god.

Paul says, 'Excuse me, mate, do you know how I get to blah, blah, blah?' And the guy turns around and says, 'Yeah, you go down there ... And he turns and he does a double take. And he went, 'Oh my God!' And he staggered back and went into the middle of the road and dropped to his knees. I won't swear, but he went, 'OH MY GOD, IT'S EFFING PAUL MCCART-NEY!' Really loud. And he kept saying it. And Paul was going, 'Shh, shh!' Because we thought the whole pub's going to come out, and he's going to be lynched.

We managed to drive round this guy and get away. He just kept screaming, IT'S EFFING PAUL MCCARTNEY!' He was very happy!

We carried on. Tiny, dark streets. And we saw this lone lady, she was a middle-aged lady walking along with a couple of bottles of beer under her arms, obviously going home for New Year's. Paul stopped and said, 'Excuse me, love, do you know how I can get to blah, blah, blah street?' She went, 'Yeah, you go down there, and then you turn left, and then you turn right. I'm going that way. Can I have a lift?'

There was no recognition on her face at all. So Paul said, 'Yeah, sure! He said,

"Twiggs, shove up' So we shoved up, the lady got in the back with us with her two bottles of beer. She was completely calm.

We got to where her street was. She said, 'You can drop me off here, love, I can walk down that bit. And then you go down there' Paul said, 'I know where I am now.' She got out and she went round to Paul's driver side and said, 'I know who you are, you're Paul McCartney, and that's Twiggy in the back there. And that's Linda. And it's so lovely to meet you.'

It was brilliant! I think Paul gave her a kiss, and she walked up the road. It was magical. We got there about three minutes to midnight. A little terraced street, little houses. But his family were all so lovely. And everyone comes out on the street to do 'Auld Lang Syne'. It was a brilliant New Year.

- Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run

(I love that there are still new stories to be told)

[javelinbk]

John Lennon and Paul McCartney on their way to Slough, 5th November 1963 - part 1 (part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5) (x)

[pixelsoaked]

George Harrison photographed by Bill Zygmant, 1968

[maccamaniac1]

In a heartfelt interview in late 2023, Paul McCartney spoke emotionally about a dream that had shaken him. He said he saw John Lennon in the dream, alive, laughing, and speaking to him like old times. The encounter felt so real that he woke up in tears. While talking on the podcast McCartney: A Life in Lyrics, Paul revealed, “It was one of those vivid dreams where John was there. We were just sitting across from each other and I remember saying, ‘John, it’s so good to see you again.’” His voice cracked slightly during the recounting.

This memory came as part of Paul’s promotion for the 2023 release of the final Beatles song Now and Then, which used a vocal demo from John originally recorded in the late 1970s. With the help of AI technology developed by Peter Jackson for the Get Back documentary, the scratchy home recording was cleaned up enough to allow Paul and Ringo Starr to add bass, drums, and harmonies, giving the track the emotional power of a real Beatles reunion.

What moved Paul deeply was the process of recording around John’s voice as if he were in the room again. “It was incredibly touching,” Paul said during a BBC interview in November 2023. “When I heard his voice clear as day in the studio speakers, I had to take a minute. It wasn’t just music. It felt like a message.”

During an interview on The Tonight Show, Paul recalled the early writing days with John. He mentioned how, even in their youth, the connection had a depth that went beyond collaboration. “We’d sit across from each other with our guitars and just look into each other’s eyes as we figured the lyrics. It was a strange, beautiful sort of unspoken trust.”

But one of the most unexpected revelations came when Paul spoke about a 1980s moment that haunted him. After John’s death, Paul would often write letters to him. Letters that were never sent, just tucked away. In an emotional passage from his 2021 book The Lyrics, Paul included a portion of one note: “Would you believe me if I said I still hear your voice in the harmonies?” He admitted he sometimes sang along to old Beatles songs at home, imagining John beside him.

During the making of Now and Then, Paul said he looked to John for guidance. “I kept thinking, ‘Would John approve of this part? Would he like the string arrangement?’ That’s how present he felt,” Paul explained during the SiriusXM Town Hall session. “It was like he was in the control room with us, nodding or raising an eyebrow.”

A particularly touching moment came when Paul recalled a studio exchange with Ringo while they were finishing the song. They were sitting in silence after laying down the final tracks. Paul turned to Ringo and said, “Do you feel him here too?” Ringo replied, “I do. It's mad, isn't it?” That moment, Paul said, was among the most emotional of his recent life.

In a quiet revelation during his conversation with Rolling Stone, Paul shared a short anecdote involving a cassette player he still keeps in his study. The tape inside it carries one of the last audio letters John sent to him in 1979. “He was being silly, doing voices, making jokes... I’ve never had the heart to rewind it past that message. It’s frozen in time, just like him.”

Paul also touched on their complicated past. “We had our fallouts, sure. But I never stopped loving him. I don’t think he ever stopped loving me either,” he said. Then he added a line that stunned the room silent: “I still write with him. Not every day, but when I’m stuck on a song, I ask him what he thinks. And sometimes, I hear the answer.”

Now and Then topped charts globally, but to Paul, it meant something no chart could measure. “It gave us one last chance to sing with John,” he told the crowd at an intimate event at Abbey Road Studios.

Even after all these years, Paul’s voice trembled slightly when speaking about John. He ended one appearance by simply saying, “We started off as kids with guitars, and somewhere in the music, I still find him.”

[dykebeatles]

LESBIANS ID REALLY QUITE LIKE TO GET INBETWEEN

[mydaroga]

“Everything I say will come out just a little bit different, I don’t mean on the transcript, but as it leaves my mind and comes through my mouth, it gets a little bit messed up just around about the mouth, where the words start….. doing it.”

— Paul McCartney, International Times, January 16, 1967

[get-back-homeward]

“It can make it difficult because if you say a thing according to the new book of the prophet, they say things in reply according to the old testament, and you find yourself saying “Well, yes, but I don’t quite mean that. I know it sounds like that but is not. What I mean is, working on a new assumption of everything being fluid,” you find yourself getting into cock-ups with words. It’s a big battle at the moment. Trying not to say too many words and if there’s a pregnant pause in the conversation, not feeling that I’ve got to fill it. But let someone else, who fears the silence, fill it. I don’t fear it anymore. Of course it will need a bit of training. But the good thing about it is that if you are prepared to accept that things aren’t just broad and wide, they’re infinitely broad and wide, then there’s a great amount to be learned. And the change over … it can be done. It just takes a bit of time, but it will be done, I think.”

[eppysboys]

“Near the end of his life he told me, ‘If you’re going to go to an affair with a boy make sure he’s very good-looking, because it’s far worse to be accused of bad taste than being gay.’ I’ve never forgotten that.”

— Nat Weiss about Brian Epstein

[luvmacca]

[1967mccartney]