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obsessed with this bit of paul twirling around in the alternative fool on the hill video in a way that is concerning

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source

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favorite photo of him maybe ever because he literally just looks like a drag king like what the fuck

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Got soft. Found a ref. Here it is. Idk

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thinking abt how 4 months ago john lennon was just the extremely famous imagine-all-the-people weird artsy beatle who i knew like six facts about max. now i know too much and have weirdly strong feelings/opinions on him. this is a process that occurs every time you get hyperfixated on something but the beatles had for so long been cemented in my head as these caricatured cultural icons. it's like being rly intense abt JFK or something. like i shouldn't know the exact year john lennon shifted from wearing square rimmed glasses to tiny circular glasses but i do.

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you can tell paul had it from the very beginning. he was on the ed sullivan show about to perform in front of millions of americans for the first time. the others still seemed reserved but paul mccartney came out fucking bouncing bobbing his jelly round head long anime girl legs giving disney knees before either of those concepts were a thing singing oh yeah i'll tell you something. and he did. without care. through grainy static filled screens he captured the souls of thousands of women so fast that 60 years later i am typing this on tumblr. just raw star power.

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Paul McCartney & John Lennon during a press conference at the Odeon Theatre in Glasgow, Scotland | 3 December 1965

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John Lennon backstage at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, CA | 29 August 1966 © Jim Marshall

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the beatles signing with klein in front of a big fuck off photo of john and yoko kissing is visual symbolism the likes of which production designers wouldn't even bother to think up because it's too on the nose. and yet it happened in real life.

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the way some people especially male beatle fans / biographers talk about paul mccartney like he's this manipulative conniving two faced control freak mastermind is so fucking funny. girl i don't care if he personally went and did the jfk assassination solely to intensify the spectacle of their first trip to the usa. that diva did what she had to do to get the beatles to where they are like truly from the bottom of my heart IDGAF.

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“was john lennon crucified tho” well yeah actually

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Shout!: The True Story of the Beatles (Philip Norman)

15-year-old Paul McCartney joining the Quarrymen and immediately bossing them all around will never not be my fave thing <3

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he does have nice legs doesn’t he

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one of my favorite johnpaul moments that i think about very often is that time when paul mccartney like idiot doofus the third told tv reporters that he's taken LSD and obviously got backlash and was explaining himself to a journalist and john jumped in like Yeah well the Tv Reporters shouldn't have fucking Reported on it it's not Paul's fault He got asked a Question what do you want him to do Lie? You want us to fucking Lie? This is all the fault of Big Media. Fuck you. and paul is sitting beside him like Yeah... :)

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these two pictures in conjunction make it seem like paul grabbed john's wrist to put him on time out for slapping his ass while they were hung mid air or whatever.

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October, 1973: John sings his own brittle, crooning rendition of ‘Be My Baby’ by The Ronettes. (Note: The number was originally recorded for - but left off of - John’s Rock ‘N’ Roll LP. It was eventually released on the unauthorised Roots LP. This is an alternate rough mix of the track.) 

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John: [about his haircut] I've had it on and off for five years. Paul: Yeah. You should've seen it off.