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Help! (1965) dir. Richard Lester

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Peter Asher & Paul McCartney at the Playboy club, London. February 1968.

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John Lennon and Yoko Ono photographed by Bob Gruen at Central Park in New York City on April 2, 1973.

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🎶The Beatles in 1963 and 1967🎶

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strawberry fields forever

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BOBBY DEERFIELD (1977) dir. Sydney Pollack AL PACINO as Bobby Deerfield

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“MIKE: I saw the Lennon play [written and directed by Bob Eaton] before I came over here and Our Kid comes out of it a wet and rather weedy character, which is absolute bullshit, you know. KING: Not long after John died, I heard that at a showing of Let It Be, the audience booed Paul… MIKE: Tragic. That really is tragic because you’ll never know what sort of love they had for each other. You didn’t need to put it into words. So it’s sad. And I found the Lennon thing, the Lennon play in Liverpool, it’s equally sad in the fact that it wasn’t like that for one. They had a healthy regard for each other. John, in his own inimitable style, was like a brother in many respects… trying to tell Our Kid things and communicate with all his things, but you know, Johnny chose, ’cause that’s the way he was, to put it in public. He chose to wash his dirty linen in public. But you’ll notice Our Kid never answered back, never replied because just as John has his right to do it his way, Our Kid also has his right to do it his way. But it doesn’t mean just ’cause you don’t get in a ring that you’re not – it doesn’t mean that you’re a coward. KING: It’s always struck me that Paul, despite the image and all, was actually one of the more private ones… MIKE: And far more powerful than people think for one. And far more powerful than is shown in Lennon. I mean, it is John’s play and OK, fine. But you gotta realize that Lennon without McCartney is rather like Rogers without Hammerstein. It’s like saying, ‘Oh yeah, it’s Rogers’ new play’, Rogers who? Hey, Hammerstein’s play? What’s that? You know, new musical. It was the two of them. KING: It was a symbiotic relationship. MIKE: Well, the secret behind their success was the two of them. It wasn’t one. KING: They seemed to feed off each other. MIKE: They complemented each other. Where one was weak, the other one gave strength, and vice versa.”

— Mike McCartney, interview w/ Bill King for Beatlefan: The Family Way : the Mike McCartney Interview. (February, 1982; orig. conducted in December, 1981)

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Watch Paul McCartney's brain short-circuit, while promoting Linda's posthumous album Wide Prairie, when a fan says they hear a similarity between her music and John Lennon's music.

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the most toe-curling, jaw-dropping, magnificent sounding 1 minute and 13 seconds of my life.

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Ron and Russell Mael in The Sparks Brothers (2021), dir. Edgar Wright

Being Ron and being Russell, and being Sparks, it's all kind of one and the same.

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it's called a museum because me 'n' u see 'em

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John Lennon at the NEMS Enterprises Ltd offices at Sutherland House, 5-6 Argyll Street, London, England | 30 May 1964 © David Magnus

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 "Experimental exercises by a lunatic whose brother was on the telly.“