John Lennon Is My Mother, My Lesbian Aunt, My Sworn Enemy, My Personal Punching Bag, My Gender Identity,

Deborah Dixon & The Beatles during the filming of Help! in the Bahamas | 27 February 1965 © Enrico Caruso

the lyrics: the statistics

did a re-read and this is driving me insane so i must share. this isn’t including mentions in the credits of the song or in photographs, just times paul explicitly mentioned their name in the write-up.

ringo mentioned in 21/154 song entries (13.6%)

george mentioned in 27/154 song entries (17.5%)

linda mentioned in 36/154 song entries (23.3%)

john mentioned in 80/154 song entries (51.9%)

A friend of mine just described his sexual fantasy to me — John Lennon in a fox kigurumi

walking martha and discussing house chores somewhere in 67

Paul is a victim of chronic childhood trauma, whose personality was shaped by three destructive forces: the death of his mother (loss of love), his father's violence (loss of safety), and his unpredictable "care" (loss of trust). His psyche operates in survival mode: suppression of emotions, traumatic attachment to the abuser, and somatization of stress. He experiences an unresolvable internal conflict between the awareness of his father's toxicity and the childlike need for his love. Music is the only light in this darkness. His story is a classic example of a "broken child" in an adult's body, where the pain of the past continues to live in the present

it’s because i wear four rings

All it ever does is rain, Christophe Jarcot

John Lennon helping Yoko Ono in her photoshoot for David Bailey, July 18, 1971.

Rhiannon Salisbury (British, b. 1984)

Unwrap, 2021

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