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i find it so interesting that in paris, while homosexuality was legalized, it wasnt for anyone under 21. reminder, paul and john took a trip to paris for johns 21st birthday. hm.

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Does anyone have a link to the recording where john is going “my pau pau” and doing the French accent bit where he also references cafe on the left bank… I can’t find it anywhere and also can’t remember what year it’s from (working on my mclennon masterdoc lmao)

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John and Paul's Paris trip 🗼

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Q: “Jimmie, having played with all these bands —what’s it like being suddenly thrust in with The Beatles?” Nicol: (laughs) “It’s the ‘end’, you know!” [This was slang at the time, meaning that something was the best].

(The Beatle Who Vanished 60th Beatles Anniversary Tour Version by Jim Berkenstadt, 2024)

Sandison [David Sandison from 'Off Beat'], in a two hour long interview with the Fab Four, described his meeting thus: "The door of the dressing room opened a few inches and a face peered out. 'Wrexham Leader', I said. 'Come in lad' said the face, and yelled back in the room 'Press!' A hand was pushed into mine and John Lennon, the leader of the Beatles, introduced me to the other members of the group. 'Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, sit down, if you can find a seat.'

Having found a seat, Sandison launched into a marathon interview the content of which was to be repeated a thousand times in the early years of Beatlemania.

'What don't you like about popularity?' Paul answered 'The long journey to dates. Once you you've arrived it's fine, but the hours wasted in cars and trains are enough to drive you round the bend.'

I remarked on the strong rhythm and blues touch to their music. This time John Lennon spoke up. 'That figures, because Ray Charles is our idea of the end.' (24/29 January 1963)

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Quotes from “John & Paul: A Love Story In Songs”

CHAPTER 5: BÉSAME MUCHO

“Sutcliffe faced relentless ragging from McCartney, and one night, during a performance, he snapped, walloping Paul off his piano stool. The two proceeded to ‘beat the shit out of each other’ on stage in front of an amused audience of German gangsters. Shortly afterward, Sutcliffe and the other Beatles confronted the inevitable and decided to part. [...] Astrid explains Paul’s perspective:

Let me ask you this: what would you do if you were in a band, and were a brilliant artist, and one of your best friends is just fiddling around and doesn’t even practice, but is content to just look great — to look rock and roll? I know what I’d do, I would go crazy… I think Paul was very brave, putting up with Stuart for so long.”

“In September 1961, ahead of his twenty-first birthday, John came into a substantial sum of money: £100, equivalent to about £2,000 today. He could have invested this windfall in new equipment for the band. He could have put it toward a deposit on a flat with his girlfriend, Cynthia, now living as a lodger at Mendips. He could have splurged on records and beer. Instead, he planned a monthlong holiday with Paul.”

“Those who knew Lennon and McCartney marveled at how close they were. Bernie Boyle, a Cavern regular who did some work for the Beatles as a roadie, observed their eerie mental connection: ‘They were so tight it was like there was a telepathy between them: on stage, they’d look at each other and know instinctively what the other was thinking.’ People were drawn to them, and also wary of them, for both were capable of shriveling outsiders with wit. Together, they had an aura of unbreachable self-assurance. This was partly the arrogance of the damaged. The psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk observes: ‘After trauma the world becomes sharply divided between those who know and those who don’t.’ Bob Wooler said, ‘At times, they reminded me of those well-to-do Chicago lads Leopold and Loeb*, who killed someone because they felt superior to him. Lennon and McCartney were ‘superior human beings.’’”

“Vollmer took them to Montmartre, a glamorously seedy district populated by artists and night workers, a Parisian St. Pauli. They found a small hotel room. Their original plan had been to move on to Spain, but they ended up staying in Paris for the full fortnight. They visited the haunts of Hemingway and Sartre. They didn’t go up the Eiffel Tower because it cost too much, contenting themselves with lying on the grass underneath and gazing up. They sat in cafés and drank milk-shakes. They went to see some French rock bands and tried to play themselves, persuading Jürgen to talk to the manager of one club, but there was no interest. When John turned twenty-one, Paul treated him to a hamburger and Coke for his birthday dinner.”

“Ever after, Paris was John’s favorite city in the world. He said later, ‘All the kissing and holding was so romantic… the way people would just stand under the tree kissing. They weren’t mauling each other, they were just kissing… I really loved it.’ He and Paul returned to Liverpool with ambition renewed.”

“They agreed to be represented by [Brian Epstein]. Lennon later claimed to have made the decision himself, over Paul’s objections: ‘I make a lot of mistakes, character-wise, but now and then I make a good one… and Brian was one.’

We should be wary of John’s retrospective tendency to present himself as the driving force of the band, but Paul’s lateness to the Epstein meeting is well attested. Why did he throw a spanner in the works? He seems to have been uneasy about what Brian’s appointment would mean for him. Paul, who like John was a close reader of people, could see that Epstein was besotted by Lennon. He understood what that felt like. As he put it later, ‘I’m sure Brian was in love with John. We were all in love with John, but Brian was gay, so that added an edge.’ What worried him was John’s power over Epstein, and therefore his power over the group if Epstein became their manager. His concerns were not groundless. In his first months as manager, Epstein treated John as the most important Beatle, running any proposed changes by him before talking to the others.”

* Leopold and Loeb were two wealthy University of Chicago students who, in 1924, kidnapped and murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks in what they called the “perfect crime”. There is strong historical evidence that Leopold and Loeb had a romantic and sexual relationship.