#but reading tune in and seeing peter at dovedale when john and george were too

[with-eyes-closed]

I'm thinking so much at the moment about those early Beatles sibling dynamics, especially as they became more and more enmeshed in each other because like - - Mike presumably would've met George around the same time as Paul, between the bus or the Inny or the Speke estates (depending on when you think they actually met), and of course went on to photograph all iterations of the band so extensively and connect with the people in it, and I wonder so much about George's second brother, Peter, maybe(?) having been in the same class as John at Dovedale Primary School, and John asking about him in that letter to Louise from Hamburg, and George and Paul and John playing at the wedding reception of George's oldest brother, Harry, in 1958, and George and Paul practicing at his house, and what did that feel like? To be creating your own sort of family while adopting parts of each others and finding these different forms of intimacy and familiarity when fame was far away, and how did it change when fame was suddenly grabbing at your shirt collar? When it was pressed against your back?

And what was it like to see the band your 15-year-old brother played in at your wedding suddenly plastered on magazines and mobbed at airports, hotels, venues, street corners? What was it like to be an outsider on the inside? So close to this thing, and yet not actually a part of it? There's a bit of talk about what it was like for the wives and the girlfriends and even the parents, but there's something so interesting to me about the siblings, especially as their lives were interwoven not just before The Beatles, but before their siblings ever met each other, and I can't imagine that doesn't come without its own baggage.