#john and paul: a love story

[paulandjohn]

[cheesenchalk]

i never know how to phrase it but something about the way beatles biographers and people in general view paul's reflexive placating persona and determination to smooth things over as manipulative or duplicitous and john's reflexive barbed persona and habit of lashing out as brave and subversive despite both being equally defensive mechanisms to shield themselves from the world that resulted in them saying things that weren't true says more about how we culturally view kindness or friendliness as inherently untrustworthy or flimsy and anger and carelessness as more believable as someone's true nature than it says about either of them in actuality

[romcomisdead]

John and Paul book early release, they were giving it out for free at Central Park (strawberry fields) GOT MY HANDS ON IT!!

[the-boney-rolls]

It was New York, around 1974, and I think it was around the first time they had gotten back together again. I got a knock at the door at the Pierre Hotel where I had taken over a suite for months and months…. About three in the morning there’s a knock on the door and John was there, and he had Paul with him! The two of them had been out on the town for the evening. He said “Can we come in? You won't believe who I've got here,” and I said, “Wow I thought you two had…” and he said, “No no, all that's going to change.” It was great! We just spent the evening talking. It was kinda a strange thing between them, there was a little bit of distance every now and again. But that must've been the first time they were back together since the big bust-ups. They actually asked me if I'd join the two of them and become a trio with them, and we'd change the name to something like David Bowie and The Beatles because they liked the idea of it being DBB. But, you know, the next morning it just never came to anything.

David Bowie on BBC 6 Radio Music in 2004

[lc-mrbrownstone]

JOHN LENNON AND MAY PANG!

[fanart!]

[javelinbk]

Paul McCartney tells the same anecdote for 60 years, #37925

[beetle-baguette]

Shambles

[talulahsjusthere]

Me whenever Here Today or Now and Then play on my Spotify playlist

[storyshark2005]

So Now and Then is a qualified success, although the question remains: what’s it for? It clearly doesn’t exist to make money, which none of the Beatles or their estates need [...] Perhaps the real reason for its existence lies with McCartney. No Beatle tried harder to keep the band together or seemed more shattered by their split. And no Beatle has worked more tirelessly to affix a happy ending to their story, never failing to remind interviewers that the band were a tight studio unit to the end, regardless of what was happening outside of it, and that he and Lennon were friends again at the time of his death; [...] The premature conclusion of the mid-90s sessions clearly niggled him: he has repeatedly mentioned finishing Now and Then in the intervening years. Now he has, an act of closure underlined by one of the lyrics he appended to Lennon’s: after the lines about missing you and wanting you to be there for me, he adds “always to return to me”.

from https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/nov/02/the-beatles-now-and-then-review

[harrisonsbabygirl]

The White Album

And Paul working on the picture collage with Richard Hamilton

[centalk]

You know what would be cool a forbidden love between the beatles and a poc reader set in the 60s at the height of their fame

[paulandjohn]

Publication date: April 8 2025

Pages: 448

Publisher: Celadon Books

Dimensions: 15.56 x 2.54 x 23.5

[rhapsodynew]

#A rock suitcase forgotten in the basement

Nothing on earth goes unnoticed,

And the youth that is gone is still immortal.

How young we were,

How young we were,

How sincerely they loved,

How they believed in themselves.

[prolibytherium]

Somehow that ongoing 1,500,000+ word The Beatles Paul McCartney x John Lennon fanfiction I read includes like the most absolute minuscule details of the Beatles lore, like tiny little things where I was like "that can't be real" but I looked it up and it was (IE a guy claiming to be Jesus Christ barging in on one of their recording sessions). But it does NOT include the apparently real group masturbation sessions

[ringosmistress]

[javelinbk]

Two of Us: The Play?!

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