#Lennon Remembers

[mydaroga]

I understand why this isn't the most quoted part of "Lennon Remembers," but I'm currently losing it over his inability to, haha, remember who is in Crosby, Stills, and Nash:

Maybe Neil and a couple of the Byrds — what’s his name, the one in the Stills and Nash thing, Crosby and the other guy, who used to do the lead.

Like he's literally the first name in the band.

[thestarsarecool]

"Paul had an impression, he has it now like a parent, that we should be thankful for what he did for keeping the Beatles going. But when you look back upon it objectively, he kept it going for his own sake. Was it for my sake Paul struggled?"

— John Lennon, Lennon Remembers (Rolling Stone 1970)

"I was still in my love cloud with Yoko and I thought, well, I’ll just say something nice to Paul: 'It’s all right, you did a good job over these few years, holding us together.' He was trying to organize the group, and organize the music, and be an individual and all that, so I wanted to thank him. I said 'the Walrus is Paul' for that reason. I felt, 'Well, he can have it. I’ve got Yoko, and thank you, you can have the credit.'"

— John Lennon, also in Lennon Remembers (Rolling Stone 1970)

[thegalaxyinapaperbag2]

compiling trends in beatles fanart

[kinsfaun]

Paul says:

😔

(it’s a very John & Paul song, is what I’m saying)

[hatsonllamas]

Also, I think I vomited in my underwear somehow?

[x]

[sgtpeppers]

Jonah Lees as John Lennon, Blake Richardson as Paul McCartney, Leo Harvey-Elledge as George Harrison, and Campbell Wallace as Ringo Starr. Midas Man (2024)

[beatlesmenrock]

i keep forgetting to post this piece but here it is <3

inspo under the cut !

[prettybabyimblue]

[get-back-homeward]

me at lewisohn when he takes johns comment about him and paul never really writing together as absolute fact in tune in

why are old man beatle fans convinced John Lennon meant things he said and understood things he felt?  that is surely the wildest reading of John Lennon. 

it’s like they were raised in caves and never saw him but learned about him from carvings and third hand memories of their dying brothers.

[got-ticket-to-ride]

Arriving at the scene for their interview "RoundUp" April 30, 1964 // John looking glum when Paul asked Morag Hood out to come to their show.

[icriedforthemoon]

No one I think is in my tree...

[gojisaurus]

bob dylan gets tormented by a hangover and john lennon for 28 minutes 17 seconds

[ncwhereman]

[Brian] was a most generous man, thoughtful to the point of embarrassment at times, shy and gregarious at the same instant, but if John ever refused him a request he could behave like a spoilt child and throw tantrums, even stamping his feet with frustration, tears in his eyes. And no one could frustrate Brian more than John. I think he revelled in his power to make Brian squirm and lose his temper, even though he admired Brian as manager and godfather to our son.

Cynthia Lennon, A Twist of Lennon

[javelinbk]

Paul: I think we thought it was ok - I think, looking back on it, I think we were quite pleased with it. Erm… at the time, it was alright, you know, it wasn’t the great thing we’d ever done… I defend it on the lines that, nowhere else do you see a performance of I Am The Walrus, that’s the only performance ever… so things like that I think are enough to make it an interesting film

John: And now we’re going to play a track from Magical Mystery Tour, which is one of my favourite albums, because it was so weird, and it’s I Am The Walrus, it’s also one of my favourite tracks cause I did it of course, but also cause it’s one of those that has enough little bitties going to keep you interested, even a hundred years later

Paul McCartney and John Lennon discuss the I Am The Walrus performance in Magical Mystery Tour, filmed 23rd September 1967. The Beatles Anthology (1995)

[paulic]

I vaguely remember Paul telling a story during his conversation with Jarvis Cocker about how he went to the gym and it was closed so he had to wait for an hour. He got out his guitar to kill the time and wrote a song. Bringing a guitar to the gym is actually insane girlie you’re addicted to music if this is true

[muzaktomyears]