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John and Cynthia, 1964

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Together in every universe except this one 💔

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Why is he so precious to me

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When I’m in a pretty girl competition but my opponent is literally Paul McCartney

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So long ago Was it in a dream, was it just a dream? I know, yes I know Seemed so very real, it seemed so real to me

(#9 Dream)

Was I just dreaming, was it only yesterday? I used to hold you in my arms

(Real Life)

I thought I could hear, hear Hear, hear Somebody call out my name (John) As it started to rain (John) Two spirits dancing so strange

(#9 Dream)

Picture yourself in a boat on a river* With tangerine trees and marmalade skies Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly A girl with kaleidoscope eyes

(Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds)

*'The imagery was Alice [Alice in Wonderland] in the boat. And also the image of this female who would come and save me—this secret love that was going to come one day.' (John Lennon, 1980, All We Are Saying by David Sheff)

On a river of sound Through the mirror go around, around I thought I could feel, feel Feel, feel Music touching my soul (nhoJ)** Something warm, sudden cold (nhoJ) The spirit dance was unfolding

(#9 Dream)

**nhoJ and luaP

add to this (mirror) and this (stange dances) and this (looking for you)

for @i-am-the-oyster <33

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'I look in the mirror'

At the Cavern, 1963, photo by Michael Ward

Photo by Mike McCartney

August 13, 1966, photo by Bob Bonis

We wrote with two guitars, John and I. And, as I’ve mentioned previously, the joy of that was that I was left-handed while he was right handed, so I was looking in a mirror and he was looking in a mirror. We would always tune up, have a ciggie, drink a cup of tea, start playing some stuff, look for an idea. Normally, one or the other of us would arrive with a fragment of a song. ‘Please Please Me’ was a John idea. John liked the double meaning of ‘please’. Yeah, ‘please’ is, you know, pretty please. ‘Please have intercourse with me. So, pretty please, have intercourse with me, I beg you to have intercourse with me.’ He liked that, and I liked that he liked that. This was the kind of thing we’d see in each other, the kind of thing in which we were matched up. We were in sync.

(Paul McCartney, about Please Please Me in The Lyrics, 2021)

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A lot of what we had going for us was that we were both good at noticing the stuff that just pops up, and grabbing it. And the other thing is that John and I had each other. If he was sort of stuck for a line, I could finish it. If I was stuck for somewhere to go, he could make a suggestion. We could suggest the way out of the maze to each other, which was a very handy thing to have. We inspired each other.

(Paul McCartney, about Eight Days A Week in The Lyrics, 2021)

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When John and I met, the first year of our friendship was spent talking about these cover versions, the records we loved, and then playing them again and again. As we got to know each other, we practised these various covers until one day the conversation went, ‘You know, I’ve written one or two songs.’ And he said, ‘Yeah, so have I.’ That gave us something in common that was itself wholly uncommon. I went to a school of a thousand boys and I’d never met anyone who said he’d written a song. Mine were just in my head. So were John’s. We took each other by surprise. And then the logical extension was, ‘Well, maybe we could write one together.’ So that’s how we started. And we became versions of each other.

(Paul McCartney, about The Other Me in The Lyrics, 2021)

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Q: "Can I ask you about Lewis Carroll?" A: "Oh, Lewis Carroll. I always admit to that because I love 'Alice In Wonderland' and 'Alice Through The Looking Glass.' But I didn't even know he'd written anything else. I was that ignorant. I just happened to get those for birthday presents as a child and liked them. And I usually read those two about once a year, because I still like them."

(John Lennon, June 16, 1965, interview for BBC)

Paul McCartney in his garden at Cavendish Avenue, 7; photo by Barry Lategan (for Observer 'What Makes A Man Stylish?', July 1968)

I think of the imagined world of Lewis Carroll [Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There] that John and I both loved so much.

(Paul McCartney, about I’ll Get You in The Lyrics, 2021)

We’d been together so much that if you had a question, we would both pretty much come up with the same answer. [about their hitchhike to Spain by way of Paris] <…> It’s a bit crude, but it’s fair to say that, in general, I’d had a good life and John hadn’t. His life had been tougher, and he had to develop a harder shell than I did. He was quite a cynical guy but, as they say, with a heart of gold. A big softy, but his shield was hard. So that was very good for the two of us. Opposites attract. I could calm him down, and he could fire me up. We could see things in each other that the other needed to be complete.

(Paul McCartney about Ticket To Ride in The Lyrics, 2021)

Sometimes I look in the mirror Is nobody there? But I just keep on staring and staring No Can it be? Can it be? Can it be? And if I look in the mirror And nobody´s there But I just keep on staring, and staring No Is it me? Is it me? Is it me?

(John Lennon, circa 1977)

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Whenever i’m having a bad day I draw John Lennon sad and smoking.

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george having his anime girl confession moment with an oblivious paul

apologies if this is shit btw, i haven't drawn digitally in 6+ months and don't do chibi often

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Beatles in Colour → George Harrison in PURPLE For @deadpoets

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How I feel trying to explain mclennon

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I truly believe Help! to be a very fun movie, with a great soundtrack, and amazing cinematography. Its unfortunately pretty hard to try and convince friends and family to watch it and just give it a chance, but when i finally convince them to just keep an open mind and try to have fun with it they usually end up really liking the movie! (Which is good for me bc i could rewatch it a million times over and watching it with other people is always fun)

The cinematography of Help! (1965)

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From Getty Images…

‘A new discovery from our analog files, digitized from the original 130 film negative: The Beatles look chilly at London Airport after returning from a tour of Spain on July 4th 1965’. Photograph by George Stroud

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Paul McCartney admits to using LSD, ITN evening news, 19th June 1967 (video here)

More proof that Paul is hot when he’s pissed off

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Every time I watch Get Back I notice something new, this time it was whatever the fuck John's doing here

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'Beatle people/biographers' ignoring the John and Paul dynamic for years as a factor in the break-up is kind of like if maritime historians started blaming the blinking light in passenger suite 307 for the sinking of the titanic instead of the massive fucking iceberg.