#mclennon dynamic

[rockytheraccoon]

“We used to talk about growing old together. We’d have little farms next to each other.” - John Lennon on Paul McCartney

[got-ticket-to-ride]

January 14th - 15th 1964, Paris

From Love Me Do by Michael Braun

The first night, John and Paul stayed in their suite, listening to records and reading fan mail. George, who had been signed for 100 pounds a day by the Daily Express to write of his experiences in Paris, went to a nightclub in the Place Pigalle. Back in the City of Light, John and Paul slept till three o'clock in the afternoon. That much everybody agreed on. Quote by Vincent Mulchrone from Daily Mail: George Harrison was astir early, but John Lennon and Paul Mccartney slumbered on until franctic photographers forced them at lens point into the Champs-Élysées. Derek Taylor (a British journalist) wanted to know why the Beatles slept so much. "My office wants to know what they're doing in Paris, so they'd better be doing something."

Mr. Taylor, you better not worry, they are doing something alright. My head just running wild with theories, sleeping till 3 PM in the afternoon would only mean that John and Paul stayed up till 8 AM in the morning to do god knows what (definitely not just listening to records, composing and answering fan mails, right?)

And then they emerge from their hotel room looking like a newlywed couple in the afternoon of January 15th 1964

And then the pictures Paul personally took of John

[by-a-silver-spoon]

Why 'Come and Get It' is about John

If you want it, here it is Come and get it, mhm Make your mind up fast

It’s important to include the context of when this song was written and recorded. Paul wrote and recorded it within 24 hours sometime in July 1969 during the Abbey Road sessions.

What was going on in the summer of 1969?

oh, idk just a few things like:

-John and Yoko move in together

-John appoints Allen Klein as business manager

-John and Yoko are on a media junket SPREE acting like they’re the new Lennon/Mccartney

-John performs without the Beatles several different times

-Paul and Linda get married

-John and Yoko get married

If you want it  Anytime I can give it  But you better hurry  'Cause it may not last 

Basically I interpret these first two verses as Paul addressing John directly:

“Hey, John, wtf do you want here? Cause if you want to stay with me and continue this Beatles thing, I’m game. I’m here, I’ll always be here, if you ask I will come running to your side. But Jesus fucking Christ, man, hurry up and put me out of my misery cause a man can only wait so long…”

Did I hear you say  That there must be a catch? Will you walk away  From a fool and his money?

Paul consistently refers to himself as “the fool”. Re: The Fool on the hill, even “The Nerk Twins” (Nerk is Liverpudlian slang for Fool).

At this point, it's clear that the other Beatles seem to be ganging up against him (Nobody seems to like him).

So when I read these lyrics I hear Paul saying: “are you seriously going to walk away from me, John? I know I’ve been acting clinically insane, but it's only because I CARE! I can be better, I promise!!! We changed the world together, bitch! We got rich and famous together just like we always dreamed! You’re not honestly going to walk away from me and all our success, are you? ARE YOU?”

If you want it, here it is  Come and get it  But you better hurry  'Cause it's going fast 

If you want it, here it is Come and get it, mhm Make your mind up fast

(see above analysis)

Sonny!!!!

I’ve always found this choice of word to be the dead give away.

Paul wrote this song addressing someone with male endearments? Son? Sonny? Call me heteronormative but I’ve never heard anyone refer to a woman or a girl by “Sonny”.

The way he’s written this song, he’s obviously addressing a loved one, and up until this point, any casual listener would safely assume that subject is a girl.

And it’s not as though he had the excuse of writing this for a girl group or a woman like Mary Hopkins. He wrote it for The Badfingers, a group of guys. SONNY???? Sonny!!!!?????? He’s ADDRESSING A MAN.

if you want it Here it is Come and get it  But you'd better hurry  'Cause it's going fast You'd better hurry  'Cause it's going fast 

Like @sleeper9 said: “if you liked it then you should’ve put a ring on it”

[legionofnone]

McLennon things that I think about a lot and feel as though I have no one to tell them to:

There’s an interview with Paul where he’s talking about the meaning behind “This One,” trying to say it was written from George’s perspective about John’s death. (Which…yah, sure Jan.) He talks about how he’d written it for George, because Paul and John had “really made things up and gotten our relationship back on track in the w—months leading up to his death.”

What’s weird about this is the fact that it directly contradicts what he says in later years, that he and John hadn’t spoken in about a year, that they hadn’t seen each other in four years.

There’s other sources that say they’d actually booked studio time together for January of 1981, too.

There’s enough evidence that says the two of them absolutely met up after 1976, that they were talking regularly on the phone in the months and weeks leading up to his death, and that there was a reunion scheduled for the following month. Another interesting thing of note is James McCartney stating he remembered being held by John at the Dakota - but he was born in 76, so how would he remember that if Paul hadn’t seen John since then, supposedly?

So why does Paul downplay his relationship with John (friendship or otherwise) in the last few years of John’s life? Why does he make it sound like they were merely friendly acquaintances at the end?

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I also just heard John’s first demo of “Real Love,” the one where he talks about the “baby just born and another on the way,” supposedly after having read the pregnancy announcement of Paul & Linda expecting James. He ends it “I should call him” (admittedly I’m paraphrasing.)

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I had the pleasure of getting to see Paul McCartney in Mexico City on 12 November, and it was absolutely amazing. It did not go unnoticed that he came out on stage waving a giant rainbow flag, and then said, “this here is my favorite part of the show, and soon you’ll see why,” before launching into the duet with John on “I’ve Got a Feeling.” I wonder what broke loose in the last few years to have him be such an openly sentimental sap about John these days? Not that I’m complaining! He also played “Here Today,” and “Now and Then,” and I cried like a damn baby.

Lennon McCartney is the greatest tragic love story only partially told. I hope someday it gets told, but I also understand we’re not fundamentally owed anything.

I hope the afterlife is real, if only so they can see each other again.

[rungosturr]

Things I can talk about non stop: how literally Paul is singing „Oh, Johnny” in „Oh, Darling” and nobody even cares

C’mon people???

[cultestrogen]

This is so Mclennon (John) coded I nearly threw up and shit myself

[rockytheraccoon]

“I was trying to put it ‘round that I was gay, you know - I thought it would throw them off… dancing at the gay clubs in Los Angeles, flirting with boys… but it never really got off the ground.”

- John Lennon, Hit Parader

[rockytheraccoon]

”she’s me in drag.”

— John Lennon when asked why he was attracted to Yoko Ono.