#michael braun

[tavolgisvist]

On the train ride back to New York, while the camera team from Granada shoots film for their documentary, Ringo begins to slither around and under seats like an ape.

Then John and George trade coats for no reason.

video from reflectismo

Next, Ringo, with a dozen cameras around his neck pushes through the crowd, shouting, ‘Excuse me! Life magazine! Exclusive! I am a camera!’

Then George climbs up into the baggage rack above the seat and plays dead.

gif by deadpoets

Then Ringo scuttles through the car wearing a blond fur coat and a lady’s white fur hat.

Then George, wearing the porter’s hat and white coat, comes in with a tray of empty coke tins.

At the other end of the car Paul is flamboyantly taking pictures out of the window and shouting, ‘God, how artistic! Railway lines!’

Photo by Paul (from 1964. Eyes of the Storm)

The camera keeps filming; Life, Newsweek, and the Saturday Evening Post keep taking notes, and John occasionally looks up and mutters, ‘Funny, very funny.’

(Love Me Do: The Beatles Progress by Michael Braun)

[themakeupbrush]

Michael Braun at the 2026 Met Gala

[tardigradesonthemoon]

met gala 2026 sub theme: nekkid but not

[crinolinecuriosity]

I actually really like Michael Braun's look but also the penis kind of scares me but I REALLY like the imposition of the statue of david(?) on his blazer, cool way to incorporate theme

[got-ticket-to-ride]

The girls walk over to John. "How do you write the songs?" says the girl whose name is Daphne. John doesn't answer.

Paul shouts across the room in a voice you use to an errant child, "Tell us about the songs, John, tell us about the songs."

"Sometimes we write them together," says John. "Sometimes not. Some of them take four hours; some twenty minutes. Others have been known to take as long as three weeks."

~Love Me Do, Michael Braun 1964

Just love how John doesn't react to anybody but Paul.

[jinsei-pika-pika]

Michael Braun

[midchelle]

In five years it would be 1968... he was planning it all along...

[crepesuzette2023]

An attempt on why Michael Braun closes out Love Me Do! with Observations on the Eloi by the Time Traveller (from H.G. Well's The Time Machine (1985))

The sweet androgynous non-verbal flower children so quick to lose interest in the time traveler and his attempts to teach them his blunt tools are the Beatles, and Braun is the time traveller

Or

The flower children are the Beatles and the outpaced time traveller is their elders

Or

The flower children are the youth of the world and the Beatles are their current toys

Or

The flower children are the descendants of the fans of the Beatles and the time traveller is the Beatles

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The flower children are the Beatles and their songs are the flowers

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Michael Braun is the time machine and the traveller is his book and we are the Eloi playing with it

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There are no Beatles in this chapter the point is they are gone

Or

The time traveller was Jimmie Niccol.

A queer thing I soon discovered about my little hosts, was their lack of interest. They would come to me with eager cries of astonishment, like children, but like children they would soon stop examining me and wander away after some other toy.