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Jed Johnson & Andy Warhol (1977) ★
Jed Johnson captured in the 1973 documentary 'Andy Warhol' by Lana Jokel, featured alongside Andy, Jane Forth and Paul Morrissey ★
John: "She said, 'I'll be loving Paul when he's dead' and I said, 'No no, it's wrong. No, It's wrong'".
Love this little demo lol.
"Paul was sort of like a diva, like he is today. He was...we thought...I thought he was a queer. I did, for months I thought he was a queer. I thought "I'm not gonna let him touch me!" Because the first time I saw him, he had these eyebrows that looked like penciled eyebrows. I said, "that's not normal." (Tony Sheridan)
He also later said:
"John Lennon was always hiding behind his glasses, behind his tough image, although he was actually very soft. We were all showing off, even to each other – building our own image. And they were too. All that music was 50% image! One detail about Paul McCartney made a strong impression on me. When I first saw him, I thought, "This guy is kind of weird. Maybe he's gay?" The thing is, his delicate face and thin eyebrows made him look like a girl. When I first saw Paul, I thought he was half-boy, half-girl. I even doubted his straight sexuality, because he looked so much like a homosexual. He was so soft."
Beatles fans when you tell them your favourite song is hey jude and not a rehearsal tape with john’s voice calling out “paul… paul…’ in a strangely subservient, pleading way
Thelma, John, and Paul
Thelma Pickles has some interesting recollections about John and Paul from her days at art college. First, some background:
My first impression of John was that he was a smartarse. I was 16; a friend introduced us at Liverpool College of Art when we were waiting to register. There was a radio host at the time called Wilfred Pickles whose catchphrase was ‘Give them the money, Mabel!’. When John heard my name he asked ‘Any relation to Wilfred?’, which I was sick of hearing. Then a girl breezed in and said, 'Hey John, I hear your mother’s dead’, and I felt absolutely sick. He didn’t flinch, he simply replied, 'Yeah’. 'It was a policeman that knocked her down, wasn’t it?’ Again he didn’t react, he just said, 'That’s right, yeah.’ His mother had been killed two months earlier. I was stunned by his detachment, and impressed that he was brave enough to not break down or show any emotion. Of course, it was all a front.
My eyes definitely set on John. […] John was so powerful. When he was in a group like that, the focus of attention went to him. He had a presence. I found him very striking from that moment on.
When we were alone together he was really soft, thoughtful and generous-spirited. Clearly his mother’s death had disturbed him. We both felt that we’d been dealt a raw deal in our family circumstances, which drew us together. During the first week of college we had a pivotal conversation. I’d assumed that he lived with his dad but he told me, 'My dad pissed off when I was a baby.’ Mine had too. I wasn’t a baby–I was ten. It had such a profound effect on me that I would never discuss it with anyone. Nowadays one–parent families are common but then it was something shameful. After that it was like we were two against the world.”
Thelma left Art College and briefly dated Paul McCartney, who had just split with Dot Rhone. Thelma says this about Paul:
Paul would never actively treat women like shit. I don’t think it was in his nature to treat anyone like shit. But John would–he wouldn’t hesitate. Even though John was incredibly sensitive, he was terrified of exposing himself. Paul is a much more sensitive human being in the true sense of the word because he was caring and thoughtful and wouldn’t do things without thinking. […] I’m sure Paul got his not unfounded reputation for being the peacemaker–probably a genuine assessment–from Jim.”
By the early 1960′s Thelma, a divorced woman with a young son, began dating Roger McGough, poet and performer in The Scaffold with Paul’s brother Mike. She remained friends with Paul for years.
just came across your excellent post of quotes about the lennon-mccartney rivalry! there's sooooooo much to unpack there, but i was especially struck by your tags and hoping you could say more:
paul thrived with someone to compete against but it hurt john a lot and seemed to wear him down#i personally believe it's the number 1 cause of the breakdown of their relationship and the breakup itself#because it lead to john stacking his deck with allies like yoko and klein and looking for his own niches to succeed in without paul there
Well that's just my armchair psychoanalysis of John haha, I think he had some seriously debilitating (and mostly unwarranted) insecurities in general and particularly in regards to Paul. Their rivalry was always present but as long as their relationship was in a good place, they were working closely together and John could consider himself top dog, it was a positive motivating force for both of them and they could share the glory. But then Paul became increasingly independent (musically, artistically and socially), started churning out A-sides at a pace John struggled to match, and competing with Paul stopped being fun and was more of a source of unhappiness and stress. Then something happened (in India or around that time) that caused him to feel worthless and humiliated, while Paul was just fine, recently engaged, etc. If you're John Lennon and you've developed an inferiority complex along with a fear of being left behind or surpassed, what do you do? You strengthen your position with people like Yoko (a stalker with artistic cred who was willing to spend every moment with him) and Klein (a John guy who flattered him and made it clear he saw John as the boss), so you've got security and support. You free yourself from the pressure to compete with Paul in music by finding different ways to stand out, like politics and art. Then you're in a position where you don't need Paul and you don't need to beat him. You try to get some power back by provoking him with Yoko related antics and threatening a divorce you don't necessarily plan to follow through on - all he has to do to get you back is submit to your demands, then you have your top dog status back and you know he loves you enough to give you that. After all, when Ringo quit he got wooed back with flowers. When George quit, he got enough leverage to make changes to how they worked. But instead, Paul retreats to Scotland, inadvertently announces the breakup, then sues you. So you publicly rage about it and are deeply hurt for the rest of your life, even thought he technically just gave you what you asked for. Few journalists or authors bother to question this and just accept that you were too good for the Beatles and were bored by them and that's why the group broke up. The end.
Anyway hope that all made sense <3
Paul says "Hey baby!" to the moon before singing Here Today 🤍
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John cries while singing an early demo of Real Love and I’m Stepping Out. And it seems it’s about estranged Paul.
“Was I just dreaming, or was it only yesterday I used to hold you in my arms And now a baby and another on the way Lalalala farm Why must we be alone?”
Wasn't there a guy called Tony, I think, that said John came on to him, and said he had a nicer mouth than Paul, or something like that? LOL
His name was Tony Manero. He told this story in Geoffrey Guliano's book Glass Onion (1999). He claimed to having met John in 1974:
"I saw three guys walking down the block. John was always my idol. I went up to him and said, "I know a lot of people hassle you, but I just want to thank you for your music." He said, "Why don't you come inside for a drink?" Harry Nilsson was also there. After we ordered drinks, John switched seats to be next to me. He said to me, "Are you gay?" When I told him I wasn't, he looked really disappointed. He could have been joking, but he wasn't. I said to him, "No, man. I don't go that way." "Are you sure?" he said, "Look, I'll take you to Hollywood." John was calling me "the pretty one." He said, "You look like a pretty little Indian or Arab chick," because of my color skin. At one stage I went out, and when I came back he was talking to this woman and he said "She said, 'I thought he was Paul, meaning McCartney.'" So John turns around and says, "No, he's prettier than Pauly. He's got a nicer mouth than Pauly. Pauly's got a small mouth." [...] I hung out with him. John almost admitted his gay tendencies. He put his arm around me. He said, "It feels good to hold someone. You know what I mean?" Prior to that he said, "There's nothing wrong with being gay. Two people exchanging feelings is not wrong. Did you ever try it?" [...] Later we went to his hotel rooms, 1608, -9, and -10. There was Harry's bedroom, John's, and a living room with a keyboard. [...] After John died I wished I'd done it. He tried to kiss me. He put his arm around me. He was making moves on me like a guy would make on a woman. I never asked him if he'd had sex with a man, but it was obvious to me he had. [...] He was very loving, like when a guy is very lonely. The man was bisexual. There is no two ways about it."
I hope we are close enough mentally that you understand how obsessed I am with these two
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well, I want to say that Billy Shears is bollocks. It's a so interesting concept and a cult story, but people only think about blood, Billy with a knife, and Paul's head on a plate (I'm making that up myself now, I'm not referring to any particular artist). it can be like a creepypasta, okay. but why make this creepypasta so primitive and boring? personally, I like this PAUL IS DEAD shit, but I genuinely hate Billy Shears with a hammer. he's just using a hammer, he's killing someone and there's a lot of blood. end. is there nothing more to add? even the conspiracy theory on this topic is interesting and well-founded, but not the "fandom" of Billy Shears. I don't want to condemn or humiliate anyone, a person should draw what they want and what their heart is in. but I'm curious to ask, why does the heart lead to this? or do people draw it because it's popular? or is it because it's piece of the fandom? why is Billy Shears only about hammer, blood and Sgt Pepper? do you all just like crazy "Paul McCartney" in a suit or what?
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bro we are like-minded
Q: You were like two sides of the same person? A: Well said. But the sides would switch. On the surface, I was very easy-going, always accommodating. That came easy to me. That’s how I’d been brought up. But, at certain times, I would very much be the hard man of the duo. At certain moments, I could bite. But that would be when no one outside the group was watching, John would allow me to take that role because it enabled him to drop his guard and be vulnerable. On the surface, he was this hard, witty guy, always on hand with a cutting witticism. He appeared caustic, even cruel at times. But really he was very soft. John was very insecure.
(Paul McCartney, July 2004, interview with Jon Wilde for UNCUT)
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I'm happy with the way this collage idea turned out - the background is so textured, even rough, and helps to highlight the foreground
John Lennon, interview w/ Peter McCabe and Robert Schonfeld. (September, 1971)
So much to think about:
John’s bitterness towards Paul is so obvious, he seems to make himself angry by suggesting that Paul has replaced him with Linda.
John viewing writing as a monogamous, almost romantic thing, saying that there is ‘no point’ in writing with Paul anymore because they both have their own separate relationships now.
The fact that the first comparison he thinks of when asked about getting back with Paul is being back in your mother’s womb when in the same interview he says that he viewed Yoko as a motherly figure when they first met…
Also, his certainty that he will never reconcile with Paul- HE WAS SO BITTER ABOUT THE BREAK UP
“So there’s no use contemplating it.” It seems like you’ve done A LOT of contemplating John……