it’s been like ten years and im still so devoted to the weird little angel from the unwatchably bad tv show. why, u ask? it’s simple: there are a lot of shots of him in frame alone, looking up
Once, early on, Paul was in New York and he called John at the Dakota to say hello. Not more than three sentences were exchanged before the conversation disintegrated into a screaming match about lawsuits and tax liabilities. “But what about the fuckin’ tax!?” John screamed at him. Paul slammed down the phone and then quickly looked through his phone book for the number of John Eastman, but in his haste he mistakenly called John Lennon’s number again. John picked up the phone on the first ring.
“John?” Paul said. “This is Paul. You wouldn’t believe what that fuckin’ asshole John Lennon just said—”
“Fuckin’ who?” John demanded. “I’m fuckin’ John Lennon!”
Paul, realizing his mistake, slammed down the phone again.
Oh this is fascinating – the transcript related to this story is in All You Need Is Love, the 2024 book by Peter Brown and Steven Gaines that contains fragments of the interviews they conducted in the early 80s (often secured under false pretenses), based on which they wrote The Love You Make, originally published in 1983.
Check out how much the story changed from Paul's words (below) to Brown's prose (the OP above):
PAUL: I went to New York, feeling like the bringer of good news. I rang him up. “Hello, John, how are you? Hello, how’s the kids? Oh, great. What’s all this about publishing? Yeah, great”—laugh laugh laugh—“What about Apple?” Tense. You know, that was the unfortunate thing in the last ten years. The moment you mention the word Apple, all of us go, eeeeep! Dread and horror and shock goes through all our systems. I said, “Look, as I understand it, you need this indemnity.”
John said, “Fucking indemnity. Fucking this, fucking that. You don’t need to give me fucking indemnity, you fucking—” I think we ended up just sort of swearing at each other. I said, “Fuck you, ya big cunt,” ’cause I just couldn’t handle it. I couldn’t be sweet and reasonable anymore. I was shaking for an hour after that.
Of course, the funniest thing was, I then meant to ring John Eastman and say to him, “No, no, it’s not gonna work, this whole thing. I tried to do the indemnity, it’s not gonna work.” Of course, I got the phone numbers wrong. I rang John Lennon back instead. [When the phone was answered, I said,] “Hello, John? Yeah, listen, I just—oh—yeah well…”
But it was Yoko this time, and then I said, “Look, I didn’t mean for it to get like that—but, shit, you know, it seems to have got…” The funny thing was, they knew I was trying to ring John Eastman immediately after, so that would have reinforced their little feelings about me—double-dealing. I’ve hardly talked to him since.
Notice how many extremely liberal changes Brown undertook in order to add spice and fire to this particular anecdote:
Paul's short summary of his smalltalk with John is taken strangely literally, described as "not more than three sentences"
Overly hostile language is put in Paul's mouth when he thinks he's speaking to John Eastman ("That fuckin' asshole John Lennon")
John is stated to have answered the phone the second time, instead of Yoko as Paul reported.
Plus, based on earlier bits of Paul's interview, referring to the indemnity he wants to grant John as "tax" makes semantic sense to me, but the quote remains a strong paraphrase. See read more for details.
Now, Brown and Gaines also spoke to Yoko, and I haven't checked if she perhaps gave an account of this particular episode that ran contrary to Paul's, but even if this were the case, we would be left with two versions of events and Brown presenting only one of them as fact (the one that is more extreme and salacious).
All this to say, be very careful when considering Peter Brown as a source – he was an insider, but he had a verifiably flexible relationship with the truth.
All You Need Is Love excerpt, explaining John's financial concern, in Paul's words:
PAUL: Once, I rang up Lee Eastman and I said, “Where’s the Apple [lawsuits and negotiations] up to?” Like I might call today—because it’s still going on. Exactly as complicated as it ever was. If I rang up today and said, “Where’s the Apple thing up to?” and he would say that the problem is John’s got this sort of—he can’t do it, you three can’t do the deal if John can’t do it. He would want indemnity against any sort of bad things that occurred because of taxes. If he got nicked for tax, he doesn’t want to be left holding the baby, so he wants you three to give him some kind of indemnity. Up until this time, he had had a million pounds cleared, [personal] debts that John was just doing all through Apple. We had just swallowed up the debt in the company, George, Ringo, and I. Sure, we don’t mind—if it has to be. But that was a million, and none of us had ever had a million cleared in debts.
I still don’t want to screw him. I still do feel for the guy. I really like the guy, even though what I’ve gone through. I still see that he thinks he’s the one who was hurt. I spoke to the Eastmans. I said, “If we all think he’s not going to have a tax consequence, let’s give [the indemnity] to him.” ’Cause, you know, if all sides are that smart, let’s all offer it. Break the deadlock.
every episode of spn is like okay we’re gonna spilt up dean you go confront an element of the narrative that will make clear how the abuse you endured as a child continues to harm your self worth and makes you repress every desire you’ve ever had. sam you go interrogate the milf
Leanne Best, daughter of Roag Best, half-niece of Pete Best and granddaughter of Neil Aspinall, has just been cast in the Sam Mendes biopics as Aunt Mimi.
Is it too late to cancel the others and just make two hours of Mimi bitching about everyone else?
honestly might be one of my favorite bits of beatles history
He looked awful. I couldn’t get over it. Horrible. He had one eye open, and he just squawked all the time. They held him up and he looked like a piece of red meat. When I got home I cried, the first time for years and years.
But the next day, he looked more human. He turned out a lovely baby in the end.
imagine going many years without crying over something bad and then ur wife gives birth to paul mccartney
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