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"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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Today's Document
PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
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Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her

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@pwordmccartney
What the fuck does this have to do with the Beatles?
John Lennon and Brian Epstein fucked on a trip to Barcelona
just realized you’re not even a Beatles fan account and I’m just a dumbass. There’s just a lot of Beatles fan stuff on my feed sorry lmao
yeah no problem! but this is for sure about the Beatles
John Lennon and Paul McCartney on their way to Slough, 5th November 1963 - part 1 (part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5) (x)
paul mccartney was fucking insane for putting two beetles fucking on the ram album cover what is wrong with him (i know what is wrong with him). even funnier that he tried to lie that it wasnt deliberate later on. girl please.
complete credit to stvrkdream on tiktok but this edit changed my life i go back to it constantly
Yoko vs. Dakota employees
June-July 1974: John goes through ‘Whatever Gets You Through The Night’ in the studio.
JOHN: Suddenly / I’m not half the man I used to be / ’Cause now I’m an amputee…
October 9th, 1971 (Hotel Syracuse, New York): John and Yoko celebrate John’s 31st birthday in their hotel room in Syracuse, New York, surrounded by friends and guests. John conducts a nostalgic singalong session, during which he lapses into a song by his old, estranged (and absent) fiancé.
JOHN: Why he had to go, I don’t know, he wouldn’t say…
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pro maxwells silver hammer
anti maxwells silver hammer
maxwells silver hammer neutral
Ah yes, a very standard thing for one heterosexual man to say to another heterosexual man, using personal pronouns, alone in each other's’ company. Nothing to see here! 👀
Some not at all lighthearted thoughts about Maxwell's Silver Hammer
I've been thinking a lot about Maxwell's Silver Hammer, Joe Orton, and 'original sin'.
Orton was killed by his (male) partner with a hammer on the 9th of August 1967. He had written a script for a potential Beatles movie (it was returned without comment) earlier that year. He was due to meet with Richard Lester on the morning of his death, to discuss filming a revised version of the script, with Mick Jagger as a possible lead.
18 days later, on the 27th of August, Brian Epstein was found dead.
Less than six months later, in Rishikesh, Paul started working on Maxwell's Silver Hammer. On the face of it, one of Paul's 'story songs'. On closer inspection though there's reason to suspect it's more symbolic and less allegorical. The timeline is off: Maxwell starts in college, then goes back to school, then suddenly finds himself in a court. The second and third verses are dream-like in their unrealism.
The other three Beatles' frustration with the recording of the song is well known, but John also said it was their first attempt at writing a song about Instant Karma.
From this site:
Former Apple employee Tony King expands on the song's meaning a little further in Steve Turner's book “A Hard Day's Write,” by relating a conversation he had with John Lennon concerning his song “Instant Karma.” “John told me that 'Maxwell's Silver Hammer' was about the law of karma. We were talking one day about 'Instant Karma' because something had happened where he's been clobbered and he'd said that this was an example of instant karma. I asked him whether he believed that theory. He said that he did and that 'Maxwell's Silver Hammer' was the first song that they'd made about that. He said that the idea behind the song was that the minute you do something that's not right, Maxwell's silver hammer will come down on your head.”
Paul tends to speak of the hammer metaphor more like random negative events, rather than some kind of deserved retribution, but he did talk about the breakup like this:
That whole period weighed on me to such an extent that I even began to think it was all tied in with the idea of original sin
So I was already thinking something along the lines of: what if John and Paul had come to some terrible conclusion about "sinful" gay activity attracting divine retribution. They decide they need to find "the right woman" to settle down with, and resist these "sinful" urges. Paul deals with this, in part, by writing a freaky song partially inspired by Orton's murder, where he giggles at the mention of the word 'behind' (in every take, apparently). He also allegedly obsesses over the recording of the song.
So when I saw this section of John's lyrics sheet for Now and Then I gasped:
Remember when we thought our eye [to eye?] had ended the gods had been offended
Yeah.
Joe Orton's partner's name was Halliwell btw.
John Lennon / Get Back - Part One
“Yeah... That’s what I was thinking...”
Happiness Is A Warm Gun - The Beatles
'Originally, the “Sunshine Superman” single was subtitled “For John and Paul,” a reference to Lennon and McCartney. Donovan was friends with the Beatles.' (link)
When I say we'll be cool I think that you know what I mean We stood on a beach at sunset, do you remember when? I know a beach where, baby, a-it never ends When you've made your mind up forever to be mine
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