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The defintion of hell is knowing a show is incredibly well-received in its first season, but if people don’t become machines churning out tweets, content, and rewatching 24/7, there’s no likelihood it’ll get a chance to tell its whole story. This shit is madness. Shows in different genres shouldn’t have to pit-battle for dominance. First seasons are MEANT to be baselines establishing worlds and characters, not complete storylines. The idea that this golden age of television has turned into “get it done in one or get out” is revolting.

I’m dead already

“Paul plays “Strawberry Fields Forever” at the piano while John sits a few feet away, hunched over his guitar, trying to act cool, pretending this moment doesn’t mean a thing to him.” — ROB SHEFFIELD

– Jonathan Gould, Can’t Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America

Jack Douglas on Lennon and McCartney in 1980

Do you think that he chose you specifically for that last project because of your prior relationship? I ask the same question. I mean, we were friends, I never had an agenda with him. None whatsoever. Yoko trusted me. Knew that I understood what she was doing and I didn’t think it was crazy. But I asked John… we used to have a lot of talks. We would talk for hours after a session, cause Yoko worked in the daytime for the most part. And she’d go home and John would come in and we’d work all night. And John would like to kick back after a session. He had an old opium pipe that he liked to load with some weed, [a pipe] that I believe he got from Paul. {…} Did he talk much about the Beatles? All the time.

Did he feel like it was a weight on him? No, he absolutely loved it. I used to have a little Sony blaster that I would put up… It’s funny because now I do my fucking mix through a Bose wave radio, but then it was a Sony blaster. A fairly good one. And if you sounded good in there, everything was right. And one day in a few moments when nothing was going on, he would put on WNYW FM and listen to the radio. He loved to listen.

And when a Beatles song came on the radio, he would tell you everything about that session. Everything that happened. He never had a problem talking about how much he loved that band. And how much he loved those guys. He was a little annoyed at George, because George had written a book and he didn’t mention John much in the book, at that time. But he felt that that would come around.

But his love for that band. Phenomenal. It was great. It was what you hoped he would be like.

He loved them as much as everyone loved them. Did he ever discuss why they never reunited, or why they had those near-misses? Well you know he and Paul were already in the process. This Ringo album I think was going to be big.

That could have been a big stepping stone? Yeah.

Did you ever see them together, any of them? No. But I know that Paul was up at the Dakota.

Did they jam together? I don’t know. All I know is that Paul was preparing stuff for Ringo’s album. (x)

The Beatles - “Hello, Goodbye” (1967)

Paul McCartney and John Lennon at Shea Stadium (1965)

I love this so much

John was scared. We were all pretty scared. – Paul McCartney One night during that tour on a show in the South somewhere somebody let off a firecracker while we were on stage. There had been threats to shoot us, the Klan were burning Beatle records outside and a lot of the crew-cut kids were joining in with them. Somebody let off a firecracker and every one of us – I think it’s on film – look at each other, because each thought it was the other that had been shot. It was that bad.– John Lennon

“The thing you must remember is that I'm the number one John Lennon fan. I love him to this day and I always did love him”

— Paul McCartney

John and Paul, Hey Jude recording season; 30th July, 1968.

““…external forces necessitated some extraordinary hostility, but through all the bullshit, all the smoke and fire of public scrutiny, John loved Paul, and in his own way, Paul loved John. John was the more sensitive of the two, so he would be the first to make up. But no matter what happened, too much had gone down. And there was a genuine feeling between them, an affection that even public disharmony could not stop.””

— - Derek Taylor, Lennon Revealed (via mohinsdahlia)

I WANNA DIE

wait can you please post the pete shotten quote? im interested in it but dont gave access to the book

since other people asked me to publish it I’ll do it:

“I decided to wait another two days before calling John again; when I finally did so, it was Yoko who answered their private line. Several more minutes passed before John came to the phone, and it quickly became apparent that he wasn’t really taking in whatever it was I was telling him. I could also hear the muffled noise of Yoko talking in the background, causing John eventually to place his hand over the receiver and engage her in heated conversation. “Look, Yoko,” I heard John say, “he’s fucking come over, and that’s that!” 

“Not again…” I groaned to myself. “After all these years….” I even toyed with the idea of canceling, but in the end decided that if John and I both wished to see one another, then that should be our preprogative - and Yoko be damned. 

Unaware that I’d overheard any of their exchange, John suggested i give them a buzz when I arrived at the Dakota; we’d then proceed directly to his favorite Japanese restaurant. 

When John and Yoko emerged into the Dakota’s foyer, both of them seemed unusually uptight - at least with one another. John, moreover, looked far more drawn and pale than he had two nights earlier; and throughout much of the evening, his features were to remain locked in an expression of grave intensity. 

His dinner conversation, however, flowed as volubly as it had on the previous occasion - only this time he spoke almost exclusively about mysticism and the occult, while Yoko remained totally mute. He told me about his having sighted a flying saucer over the East River from his apartment window, and described in glowing terms the book of Carlos Castaneda. He also said he believed the theory that we all have two distinct selves - a “little I” and a “big I”.

“Still on the old fucking search, then, John?” I laughed.

“Yeah, Pete” he nodded. “It doesn’t ever seem to end, does it?”

John brightened up somewhat by the time we got back to Dakota, where we chatted in his white living room for another couple of hours. But he was plainly very tired, and since he had another Japanese lesson the following morning, I decided to push off at around two o’clock.

After I put on my shoes, John and Yoko walked me out to the lift. Before shaking hands with John, I gave Yoko a little goodbye kiss: a deliberately cheeky gesture that was nonetheless my way of saying, “Come on, Yoko, let bygones be bygones - there’s really no need for any of this shit.”

“Cheerio, then, Pete! See you again soon, I hope!” John called after me, as the doors of the lift slid back into place.

“Give my love to England!”.

- From Pete Shotton “John Lennon, In my life”

So there I am, idly skimming a 2015 issue of Uncut and reading this list of shit Paul has around when suddenly… 

The most eye-catching item, though, is a Lennon calendar hanging on the wall; the image for ‘July’ showing Paul’s former bandmate during his August, 1972 Madison Square Garden show. 

Hi, I am Chinese mclennon fan, and I'm new to the couple.So could you introduce me some biography about John and Paul?Thank you very much! I love you ❤️😘💕

You are welcome!

I think it’s important you first read a couple of biographies separately first.

When choosing a book about John and Paul, I think it’s very important to decide first what you want to know about them.

If you want the typical journalist/critic biography, an objective point of view of the facts, I suggest you ‘Many years from now’ for Paul, it’s seen as the almost official biography about Paul (even if last year Philip Norman has published a book about him too, more than 1,000 pages about Paul’s life. I haven’t read it yet but you can give it a look?)

If you want the perspective of someone close to them, which in my opinion is always the best choice, cause these are the people who really know what happened, I suggest you Mike McCartney’s book about his brother ‘The Macs, Mike McCartney’s family album’, he really does a good job showing his family roots, telling so many untold stories about Paul with never-seen-before pictures of the family. He tells the story from the beginning to now.

For John, the two suggestions are:

If you want the journalist/objective point of view, pick Philip Norman ‘John Lennon: The life’, he really was one of the first writers that tried to show a different image of the man everyone know, sometimes going into deep waters, showing his dark side. Philip Norman got critics from the papers and Yoko and Paul cause in the book he writes about John’s sexuality, his ‘love’ for Paul and his bisexuality, he really was one of the first journalist to try investigate about it and I think he did a really good job.

If you want a closer look, someone who’s been with him from childhood, pick Pete Shotton ‘John Lennon: In My life’, or Cynthia’s book ‘John’, or Julia Baird ‘Imagine this’. From all the 3 I rec you the first one, cause it’s the look of a friend, who doesn’t have resentments against someone so it’s a kinda objective point of view.

For a Mclennon book I rec you these, you can read here my reviews

- If you want to know more about the songs they wrote for each other, read ‘Lennon vs McCartney’ by Adam Thomas

- Powers of Two by Joshua Wolf Shank, for a psychoanalitic analysis of their creativity partnership

-Pick one from ‘Lennon-McCartney, the story of music’s greatest songwriting duo’ by Charles River or ‘John Lennon and Paul McCartney, their magic and their music’ by Bruce Glassman.

-‘The day John met Paul’ by Jim O’ Donnell is all about July 6 1957, the day they met. It‘s really nice.

Have fun! :)

John and Paul during the recording of I’ll Follow The Sun in 1964.

J: I’m playing, baby! Don’t stop me now.

P: Oh, no…

J: I’m not looking at you, am I?

P: You WERE! I know!

J: Well… I can laugh.

P: I know I can’t stop laughing when you’ve got tears(?) in your eyes.

J: Well, I’m laughing over here.

P: I know, but I can see __(?) and everything.

Q: Did you see The Beatles differently from John Lennon? Paul: Hmm. I don’t think so. We all had a common vision, at least in the early days. Then everyone seemed to think that we wanted to go in different directions. But I’m not even sure that’s true. The thing about me and John is that we were different, but we weren’t that different. I think Linda put her finger on it when she said me and John were like mirror images of each other. Even down to how we started writing together, facing each other, eyeball to eyeball, exactly like looking in the mirror. That’s how songs like ‘I Want To Hold Your Hand" were written. Q: You were like two sides of the same person? Paul: 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. He carried a lot of that from his upbringing, what with his father leaving when he was five. Then, of course, we’d both lost our mothers so we had that in common. Ultimately, we were equals. All The Beatles were equals. If things got too deep, Ringo would crack a one-liner and that kept us on a level. If things were getting too sentimental, John would harden it up. If John was getting too hostile, I’d soften it down. Then George was always on hand with his own kind of unique wisdom.

Uncut Magazine, July 2004 (via mclennonwasreal)

“There’s a million ways to write, but the way I always used to write was with John and it would be across from each other, either in a hotel bedroom on the twin beds, with an acoustic guitar and we’re just looking at each other. He’d make up something, I’d make up something and we’d just spin off each other. The nice thing for me is seeing John there, him being right-handed, me being left-handed, it felt to me like I was looking in a mirror.Obviously, it was very successful. I know I can never have a better collaborator than John. That is just a fact. So I don’t try and escape it. I just know there’s no way I can find someone now who’s going to write better stuff with me than I wrote with John.

Bbc interview with Paul McCartney, March 23, 2017. (via mclennonwasreal)

Lennon/McCartney by David Bailey, 1965.

Click for large versions of 1, 2, 3, 4.

john lennon dancing makes me happy

John Lennon speaking french

MCLENNON QUOTES AND PHOTOS

Well I’ve separated some quotes and related photos about mclennon for you guys to read how real this ship was. Enjoy.

QUOTES

Here are some quotes from books, people, or from John and Paul:

“John had a very close relationship to Paul on a different level than Stuart. His relationship to Paul was music. He admired and loved Paul.” - Astrid Kirchherr

“We wrote our first songs together, we grew up together, we lived our lives together.” - Paul McCartney

“John and Paul are essentially a legendary world-changing love affair that ends in heartbreak — like Burton and Taylor, but with no touching. They are the thing the other was looking for. A major part of their lives was settled the day they met at Woolton fair — they were completed, reborn and undone with each other.” - Caitlin Moran 

“Cynthia Lennon is a goddess, you know. Paul is a god. Aren’t I lucky to have such a religion?” - John Lennon

“Paul and I know each other on a lot of different levels that very few people know about.” - John Lennon

“There was a deeper love there that neither of us could admit to.” - Paul McCartney

“In continuing rebellion against their new bespoke image, John habitually left his top button undone and his tie crooked; often before they went onstage, in an almost wifely — or motherly —  gesture, Paul would stand him still and do up the button for him.” - Philip Norman: 

“John never looked at anyone the way he looked at Paul.“ - Cynthia Powell

“I was just the same as everyone else Harry, I fell for Paul’s looks.“ - John  Lennon to Harry Nilsson

“They’re like a old married couple with their kids.” - Ringo Starr

“They needed each other like mad.” - George Martin

“I always find myself wanting to excuse John’s behaviour, just because I loved him. It’s like a child, sure he’s a naughty child, but don’t you call my child naughty. Even if it’s me he’s shitting on, don’t you call him naughty.” - Paul McCartney

“The thing you must remember is that I’m the Number One John Lennon fan. I love him to this day and I always did love him” - Paul McCartney

“I’m the only person who is allowed to say nasty things about Paul. I don’t like it when other people do so.” - John Lennon

“John had beautiful hands.” - Paul McCartney

“I copped money for Family Way, the film music that Paul wrote while I was out of the country making How I Won the War,” said Lennon, laughing. “I said to Paul, ‘You’d better keep that’, and he said, ‘Don’t be soft.’ It’s the concept. We inspired each other so much in the early days. We write how we write now because of each other. Paul was there for five or ten years, and I wouldn’t write like I write now if it weren’t for Paul, and he wouldn’t write like he does if it weren’t for me.” - John Lennon

“It was like a tug of war. Imagine two people pulling on a rope, smiling at each other and pulling all the time with all their might. The tension between the two of them made for the bond.” - George Martin

After a late lunch, Linda launched into a long paean to the joys of living in England. When she was finished, she turned to John and said “Don’t you miss England?”, “Frankly”, John replied, “I miss Paris.” - May Pang, Loving John

“John is a central figure in my life. I will always be grateful for having so much intimate time with him. The more distant his stuff becomes, the greater he seems. I used to do caricatures of John. He was the only person I knew with an aquiline nose. When I painted him recently, I found myself saying: ‘How did his lips go? I can’t remember.’ Then I would think: ‘Of course you know, you wrote all those songs facing each other.’ ” - Paul McCartney

“I thought John was cheating on me with Paul” - Yoko Ono

“John and I used to hitch-hike places together, it was something that we did together quite a lot; cementing our friendship, getting to know our feelings, our dreams, our ambitions together. It was a very wonderful period. I look back on it with great fondness. I particularly remember John and I would be squeezed in our little single bed, and Mike Robbins, who was a real nice guy, would come in late at night to say good night to us, switching off the lights as we were all going to bed.” - Paul McCartney

“I just saw a girl who said she saw John Lennon walking down the street in New York wearing a button that said, “I love Paul.” She asked him: “Why are you wearing an ‘I love Paul’ button?”, and he said: “Because I love Paul.” - Harry Nilsson

PHOTOS

Well, here are some photos. Remember Cynthia’s quote?

“John never looked at anyone the way he looked at Paul.“ - Cynthia Powell

So now you can see these beautiful pictures. Enjoy² :

And now, Paul looking at John:

And finally, they looking at each other:

*cries in mclennon language* 

Well, that’s it. I hope you have appreciated how mclennon was real and perfect ♡ 

beatles links for when you’re feeling sad 

when the interviewer spit on george 

“well, we just sort of wanked :o oops sorry!”

“can we talk about your quotes on lsd?” GASP

the whole ken dodd 1963 interview where they were all smiley and laughing 

george pushing john into oncoming traffic 

random singing in an interview followed by fighting 

oh how the tables have turned 

george smiling while ringo is working out how to play octopus’s garden

“morning paul!” “morning rich!”

i talk about george reacting to this boy a lot but it warms my heart 

something about the announcer telling the audience the beatles are so excited followed by a shot of ringo stoned makes me laugh 

paul waiting for his turn with ringo’s attention so he can show him a random painting 

john the baptist 

i don’t even want to know why george was laying there 

“SHUT UPPP.”

“shut up while he’s talking..” 

ringo’s dance moves 

paul mccartney making mashed potatoes 

the good ‘ol shakespeare skit 

“if we did know we’d form another group and be managers.”

“thanks for the purple heart”

everything about this video 

“where could we go” “argentina?”

the way he screams gets me every time 

the beatles first radio interview 

“hey mister can we have our ball back!”

john throwing a pillow at paul 

eric lennon 

baby beatles

“what have you grown up to?” “29.”

“she looks more like him than i do.”

george speaks his own language i swear to god 

iconic george and ringo interview 

pattie and george interview 

learning about new cameras 

“why are you called the beatles?”

morons 

george dancing “aye i like it, do it again for me.”

george dancing again 

john dancing 

this is the saddest thing ive ever heard john say 

their dumb texas interview that includes the “john’s wife” joke 

george hitting himself in the face 

“you’re the first person from liverpool i’ve met” “great.”

mockers 

george being cute and paul being moody 

john and paul doing impressions 

“we aint written no poetry”

these bloopers 

“they’re entitled not to like us and were entitled not to have anything to do with us.”

“i don’t mind whether i’m remembered or not” and he’s now considered one of the greatest artists ever 

i’m sharing the yoko and john screaming in the studio bc it does make me laugh tbh 

cynthia..you deserved the whole world and i hope you’re happy wherever you are. 

love by john lennon 

hey jude by the beatles 

i’m happy just to dance with you by the beatles 

do you want to know a secret by the beatles 

hello, goodbye by the beatles 

all together now by the beatles (it’s catchy. leave me alone)

the guitar solo in i saw her standing there 

john’s stand by me cover 

here comes the sun by the beatles 

in my life by the beatles 

keith moon’s cover of in my life bc i love it so so so much 

“and in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.” <3

fantastic writing

Jimbert one shot: “The One Time When”, PG-13

Word count: 1701

Summary: They’re kissing. That’s it.

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led zeppelin moments i think about a lot and cherish (not including a lot of their song moments/improvises that i enjoy bc that’d be a lot)

“it’s a song.. of love…” “oh goddd.”

jimmy and the fucking bow during this performance 

“i’d like to introduce led zeppelin to you..”

“I think football’s a load of bollocks.”

that time robert was asked about making solo albums and his response continues to break my heart 

when robert, jimmy, and jonesy went on david letterman and john paul jones carried the whole interview with his perfect humor 

“was there a leader?” and jimmy just sits there giddy and smirking 

i just like how smiley and happy jimmy looks here 

this whole interview with robert and bonzo 

robert being silly 

that one interview where the interviewer kept having to cut them off and tell them to speak into the mic. if you know you know.

if you want asmr just listen to jimmy page speak 

the headley grange home movie footage 

backstage at madison square garden 

jimmy and bonzo dancing together while john paul jones plays the organ 

“i’m a bit upset that there’s not a pool table..”

gotta get in my daily listening of the bible 

“it’s a sign the years have passed by, he’s never complimented me before.”

this 1980 interview john bonham did where he was smiley and laughing 

“why am i doing all the talking here?” “bc he keeps asking you all the questions..”

“of course i am in the 80′s i have my own career” followed by an eye roll from jimmy 

“here’s a kid that’s getting all the chicks.” “yeah, yeah you’re right.”

jimmy ranking guitar playing 

jan. 9, 1970 show. watch it. 

madison square garden 1971. watch it. 

the stairway to heaven kennedy center honors performance that had jimmy so excited and robert in tears 

“oh gosh, i’m also very shy..”

japan 1971 immigrant song performance 

please add on more if anyone has any 

No Words by Paul McCartney. “It’s only me. I love you”

This song was released in 1973, it’s on the brilliant Band on The Run album. What i love about this song is that it doesn’t make us think maybe it’s for John Lennon, it IS for John Lennon, no doubt. Keep in mind two main points that are obvious:

-  All You Need Is Love, lyrics by John;

- This quote:  “One of my great memories of John was when we were having some argument. I was disagreeing and we were calling each other names. We let it settle for a second, and he lowered his glasses and he said, ‘It’s only me’ and then he put his glasses back on again.  To me, that was John. Those were the moments when I actually saw him without the façade, the armour, which I loved as well, like anyone else. But it was wonderful when he let the visor down and you’d just see the John Lennon that he was frightened to reveal to the world.“  (Paul McCartney,  Come Together: Lennon & McCartney in the Seventies by Richard White, 2016). Song “No Words” Lyrics: You want to give your love away And end up giving nothing I’m not surprised, that your black eyes are gazing You say that love is everything And what we need the most of I wish you knew, that’s just how true my love was No words for my love You’re burning love, sweet burning love It’s deep inside, You mustn’t hide, your burning love Sweet burning love, your burning love You want to turn your head away And someone’s thinking of you I wish you’d see, it’s only me, I love you No words for my love By Paul Mccartney

Listen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD9BxqgkWns

“Even when they weren’t in the same room, they were writing Lennon-McCartney songs. Even after they broke up, they kept bouncing songwriting ideas off each other, aiming answer records at each other. They gave each other no peace. That friendship followed them around their whole lives. I love the story John’s limo driver tells — it’s 1980, John is in the back of the car, listening to the radio, really enjoying this new hit song called “Coming Up,” wondering who the singer is. Then suddenly he says, “Fuck a pig, it’s Paul.” They couldn’t get away from each other.”

— Dreaming the Beatles: An Interview with Rob Sheffield