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"Brian was very straightforward with me about being gay. We could talk about it quite openly, particularly once we got to know each other."—Paul McCartney via In My Life by Debbie Geller.

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"I'm OK with gay people, too, because I'm essentially comfortable with my sexuality. I can goof around with gay people. I sort of know who I am by now.  And it's about time."—Paul McCartney interviewed by Holly Millea, 2002.

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"When Epstein went to dinner at the Mirabelle with Geoffrey Ellis, a leading actor at the next table, under the influence of drink, taunted: "Look at that little boy over there... he couldn't get an MBE!" Epstein coolly ignored it and the actor was hustled out of the restaurant. Unconsciously striking a chord that comforted Brian, Paul McCartney told a press conference that MBE stood for Mister Brian Epstein. Such delicious word-play was precisely in tune with Brian's sense of humor, and he enjoyed repeating the story to friends for months."—The Man Who Made the Beatles by Ray Coleman.

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Brian Epstein with Paul McCartney and John Lennon during his final visit to the studio, June 1967.

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Paul McCartney for The Brian Epstein Story (1998) / "Take It Away" by Paul McCartney.

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Brian Epstein, John Lennon, and Paul McCartney / "Objection (Tango)" by Shakira.

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"Indeed, to these city kids of modest aims and British ceilings, Brian Epstein had it all. He was so widely traveled and cultured, so sophisticated in dress and taste, that he seemed more worldly than all the others who previously had gotten involved with the Beatles' business affairs. That image made all the difference to Paul, who, of all the Beatles, aspired most to such pretensions. Paul, says Dot Rhone, 'was more ambitious than John, and he got caught up in the picture of success Brian painted.' From the start, as she watched Paul cozy up to Brian, 'Paul wanted badly to impress him,' Dot says. 'Eventually, he hoped it would give him an advantage over John' ... although Jim McCartney, while certainly impressed by Brian's credentials, cautioned Paul specifically against the wiles of 'a Jewboy.'"—The Beatles by Bob Spitz.

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"I always was [more demanding of Brian]. I was inquisitive and ambitious. I realize now how ambitious I was. I did one or two things to ruin [meaning tease] Brian, like... [how] I mimicked my mom. One or two things that at the time, you think, well, it's the game, tough. This is the way we are, and if I think like that, you think like that. [Like w]hen my mom was saying I ruined [things] by making fun of her slightly higher-class accent that she was trying to put on us kids."—Paul McCartney via All You Need Is Love by Peter Brown