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John Girls mobilising in 1963 (from the Evening News and Chronicle, 12 December)
My fellow John girls doing the Lords work
"The Paul of Tune In isn't real, and so he isn't relatable."
Today's AKOM was outstanding. I have so much to write and probably no time to write it until Thursday, but I had to make the time to say that it blew me away. The aspect I expected to influence me least, influenced me most: the death of Paul's mom. The writing about it. All of it. It humanized him and that loss in a way that hit me hard, and made me realize how much I'd been influenced by Tune In, even though I'd done my own critiquing of that section before.
(I want to write about the money part so badly, because I think that was very real for Paul, and I believe all the evidence shows that Jim was ā or at least would have felt ā much less stable than we really think about. He bet on the horses. He was the fun parent. But no, that's what I don't have time for.)
This was an excellent, excellent episode. The most powerful overall, by far. The most holistic in its picture, the most undeniable, and the one that brings me back to where I started, and with a bullet: "What story is Mark Lewisohn trying to tell? And why?" And why aren't we talking about the fact that he seems to hate Paul McCartney and Apple definitely doesn't like him?"
There are longstanding grievances, and the fact that he makes Paul McCartney into a manipulative ice cube on the page is likely not an accident.
I mean, right??
Lewisohn seems downright deceptiveāmay I even say manipulative?āafter listening to today's episode. And although I have big problems with Lewisohn because studying the text you just have to, I have played Devil's advocate in my head through every episode, but at some point today I lost my ability to find any excuses. It is just impossible to construct any defense of this.
Fucking incredible episode. Brava, ladies.
Reminder clip: Mark Lewisohn on Fans on the Run pod ā "the bastards took my name off it"
Hilarious to see Paul fans so triggered by one guy within the whole Beatles fandom who might actually have criticisms of Paul (instead of acting like he is the only Beatle that matters) while us John girls have to deal with people acting like he was the worst human who ever lived in every post or at best a glorified idiot who was lucky Paul took pity on him (eye roll). Iāll be playing the worlds smallest violin for you.
Sending special love to the original OP who thinks anyone who doesnāt agree with her is narrow minded and that there is such a thing as a historian who isnāt biased. I guarantee if this historian was biased towards Paul she wouldnāt complain.
Find someone who can make you laugh like this
My beautiful Johnny. This is why he was so beloved
what a time to be alive and a beatlemaniac.
BEATLES ARE FOREVER! āļøš
THE BEATLES are officially Number 1 in the charts!!!!
John Lennon begins to realise that Paul McCartney is broken. The Beatles, interviewed by Jeremy James for Day By Day. Portsmouth Guildhall, 12th November 1963 - part 2 (part 1)
The Beatles being menaces in Ireland, 7th November 1963 - part 1 (part 2)
Just look at Paulās life flash before his eyesā¦
Tea with John Lennon
ā John with a cat at Reed Pigman Ranch in Missouri, 19 september 1964
September 2, 1980 ..
āDid you know Paul sent a telegram to Margaret Thatcher in 1982? He did. It wasnāt friendly. He lost his temper over her treatment of health workers and fired off a long outraged message, comparing her to Ted Heath, the prime minister (tweaked in āTaxmanā) felled by the 1974 coal strike. McCartney warned, āWhat the miners did to Ted Heath, the nurses will do to you.ā This controversy is a curiously obscure footnote to his lifeāit seldom gets mentioned in even the fattest biographies. He doesnāt discuss it in Many Years from Now. I only know about it because I read it as a Random Note in Rolling Stone, not exactly a hotbed of pro-Paul propaganda at the time. (The item began, āReports that Paul McCartney is intellectually brain-dead appear to have been premature.ā) But the telegram was a major U.K. scandal, with Tory politicians denouncing him. In October 1982, Thatcher was at the height of her power, in the wake of her Falkland Islands blitz. Many rock stars talked shit about MaggieāElvis Costello, Morrissey, Paul Wellerābut Paul was the one more famous than she was. He had something to lose by hitting send on this, and nothing to gain. What, you think he was trying for coolness points? This is Paul McCartney, remember? He was in the middle of making Give My Regards to Broad Street. He could have clawed Thatcherās still-beating heart out of her rib cage, impaled it on his Hofner on live TV, and everybody would have said, āYeah, but āSilly Love Songsā though.ā Why did he feel so intensely about the nurses? He didnāt mention his mother in the telegram, but he must have been thinking of Mary McCartneyās life and death. So he snapped, even though it was off-message. (He was busy that week doing interviews for the twentieth anniversary of āLove Me Doāāthe moment called for Cozy Lovable Paul, not Angry Paul.) He didnāt boast about it later, though fans today would be impressed that any English rock star of that generationālet alone Paulāhad the gumption to send this. You can make a case that it was a braver, riskier, and more politically relevant move than John sending his MBE medal back to the Queen in 1970. Still, Johnās gesture went down in history and Paulās didnāt, though his fans would probably admire the move if they knew about it. He couldnāt win. He was Paul. All he could do was piss people off.ā
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Rob Sheffield, Dreaming the Beatles.Ā (2017)
This is one of the best books Iāve read on them. Go get it.
This is the stupidity I know and love on tumblr. Ooo Paul. What a hero for sending a LETTER to Maggie Thatcher. Never mind the years he has kissed the ass of the royals and the establishment in general. Bonus points for throwing Johns name in to shit on him for no reason. No one in Johns camp ever compared the incident with the MBE to Paulās no doubt slightly less than vanilla letter but Paulās camp has to sling arrows that Paul is the true hero TM. Lol
Could anybody tells me where this comes from?It is very important for my mclennon theory I thinkā¦ā¦
It can incredibly fit well for the I saw her standing there script
I mean thisā¦ā¦you act like a QUEENā¦ā¦š®
John & Paul š„°
John Lennon and Yoko Ono Bed-In for Peace 1969
Itās John. Itās always John.
Come on now, Paul.