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18+ 🇺🇦 Ukr/Eng DNI RUS !!!READ MY STRAWPAGE BELOW!!! my main interest for this blog is 50s-60s counterculture and music, most of it surrounding Paul McCartney. I'm a "close friend" of Barry Miles. I also write fanfiction, my ao3 is @antriss. !!!Everything is just for FUN!!! https://macca1966.straw.page/

[paulmacca1966]

🍏 INTRO

i've decided to make a better "intro post" or something to pin it. bc nobody reads my strawpage anyway. but it turned out pretty shitty i'll probably change it soon.

my main interest for this blog is of course paul mccartney and the beatles, but with the focus on his connections with 1960s counterculture. as in, indica, ashers and all that from his social circle at the time. this is both an archive and personal diary. i talk about all kinds of stuff in general, music, movies, literature, history.

i can post 18+ stuff so be safe. and i like and write RPF. you can request for me to write something too and i might do that but nothing weird. my ao3. i also make edits.

obviously my favourite beatle is paul mccartney... and other people that i talk about on here are my fav writer barry miles, sweet and talented jane asher and her too talented brother peter asher, my fav evil gay art dealer robert fraser, and marianne faithfull with her beautiful voice. i don't really post a lot about other beatles... i am too slowly discovering authors of the beat generation. i read and loved william burroughs' naked lunch recently.

the books that i'm reading atm:

- you can find links to my other socials in my strawpage. there's also more information about what i like and my DNI. i also have another blog where i post about bret easton ellis' books though i'm not really active there rn.

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watch It's So Far Out, It's Straight Down (1967) and Going Underground: Paul McCartney, the Beatles and the UK Counterculture (2013) and read what i had to say about them in this post that i really need to update...

i have to mention these three cool beatlings @taolaoo @steel-and-glass-64 @theo-shershis

[ashersdiary]

I love you I love you I love you Jane.... I can’t help it, you’re right next to me and I still feel like saying it again. You’re lovely, y'know? Properly lovely.

Love you. Love you. Love you. xxxx

paul, my love — you are quite impossible, you know that?

you’re right beside me and still writing me little love notes… i don’t know whether to laugh or kiss you awake for it. (i won’t — you’re far too peaceful like this.)

i didn’t even know you were writing this earlier, you sneak. and here i was thinking you’d fallen asleep straight away. you’re terribly lovely yourself, you know. properly, hopelessly lovely.

sleep well, darling… xxxx

i love you. i love you. i love you.

[paulmacca1966]

get a room.

[robindotcom]

fixing a mcmartin-shaped hole where the rain gets in ☔️💧

[paulmacca1966]

oomf @ikellynnphilia drew another masterpiece

[paulmacca1966]

sometimes i notice that a lot of beatles fans don't know that indica gallery and bookshop are two different locations. Not like anybody cares

[ceofjohnlennon]

"Indica books, in Southampton Row." ㅡ Peter Asher (The Beatles From "A" to "Z", 2019 : letter "J")

"Inside the Indica bookshop, with Barry Miles and Jane." ㅡ Peter Asher (The Beatles From "A" to "Z", 2019)

[vinsnerdystuff]

"Sweet Baby James" outtakes

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[paulmacca1966]

it is from the same photoshoot :Р

[paulmacca1966]

Peter 2009: "...the idea that I shall never get to sing those songs with him again, that I shall never again be able to get annoyed when he interrupts me on stage or to laugh at his unpredictable sense of humor or even to admire his newest model train or his latest gardening effort is an unthinkable change in my life with which I have not even begun to come to terms."

Gordon 1964: "Before this pop business began, I didn't work regularly. And when I needed money, I used to do any odd job I could get—labouring for farmers, gardening and interior decorating. "And I know what I'm going to do if and when I quit show business—go wandering abroad. And if any girl wants to marry me, she'll have to be prepared to go tramping around the world with me."

[paulmacca1966]

i don't have anything to say about that beatles announcement I don't care about the beatles anymore even

[paulmacca1966]

source

[ashersdiary]

hello, everyone — !

he's the jelly to my peanut butter ♡

jane asher here. you may know me from my work on stage and screen, or perhaps from seeing my name in a programme or newspaper now and then. either way, welcome.

i thought i’d make this little diary as a place to chat with people whenever i’m not caught up in rehearsals, filming, or trying to learn another set of lines.

i’m an actress, a lover of stories, and someone who is often found with a script in one hand and a cup of tea in the other.

if you have a question, feel free to leave one here. i may be busy from time to time, but i’ll answer whenever i can.

thank you for stopping by — it’s lovely to have you here!

mod info below..

hiya! you can address me as mod whenever youre asking a question directed to me <3 my pronouns are they/them

a heads-up i miight answer your ask super late and im sorry for thatt😭.... im a busy little bee but i promise ill answer all your asks lovelies! implications of nsfw are ok with me

[paulmacca1966]

guys it's jane asher no way.

[paulmacca1966]

finished. Crazy. insane guy everyone should know how fucking insane Peter Asher is

[amoralto]

Above: Peter Asher and the Indica Books and Gallery wrapping paper designed by Paul McCartney. Below: Peter Asher stands outside Indica during the construction period. The cloth in the window was put up to stop people looking in at Paul McCartney, who helped to paint the walls and put up shelves.

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In the meantime I began to assemble the stock for the bookshop in the basement music room of Peter’s parents’ house at 57 Wimpole Street. Peter still lived at home then, as did his sister, the actress Jane Asher. Peter had an L-shaped room on the top floor, and in the smaller room next door (once a maid’s room), directly above Jane’s bedroom, lived Jane’s boyfriend, Paul McCartney. He had been there for several years, ever since the Beatles moved to London from Liverpool in 1963. Paul took an immediate interest in the book stock, and sometimes, late at night, when he got in from a club or a gig, he would browse through the books and leave me a note to say which ones he had taken. He was Indica’s first customer.

John Dunbar found premises next to The Scotch of St James’s, a club in Mason’s Yard, off Duke Street, St James’s. This was the appropriate area for the gallery because it was where the few modern art galleries that London had were located, one or two streets either side of Piccadilly. Paul McCartney once again took an active role, preparing the walls, filling in holes with polymer filling, painting walls and helping put up the shelves. We had to whitewash the windows to stop crowds gathering to watch. Peter reported that Paul had been behaving in a suspicious way and would not let anyone into his room. We joked that he must have a groupie holed up in there. Then, on the day the bookshop opened, Paul pulled up in his Aston Martin and heaved a large, heavy package out from the back seat. He had designed and had printed wrapping paper for the shop – 5,000 sheets of it. He had hand-lettered the name and address of the shop in black and white and composed them in the shape of a Union Jack – very sixties. It was a terrific gift, and he was correct in thinking that we had not thought to provide ourselves with wrapping paper, so it was very welcome.

— Barry Miles, The Zapple Diaries. (2015)

[doraemonmon]

Marianne Faithfull

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