#mclennon music

[javelinbk]

A little bit of heartbreak for Valentine’s Day…

A Little Bit Yours - JP Saxe / The Beatles: Get Back

[oldrockstarrstalker]

This is one of my favorite GIFs istg 😭

[lemonrush]

🎀🐇 john & paul

[just-wanna-draw-em]

“Are we gonna have a problem?”

[maybeyourelocalbi]

1963 the beatles perform at the beatles christmas show, at the astoria cinema, finsbury park, london, new years eve, dec.31st

[paulmccartneyexplodingonstage]

“If we can’t be lovers we’ll never be friends…”

Mixed media, 22.5x30in, 28 hrs

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One day I’ll sit down and give an extensive talk on my experience with synesthesia, but for now I’ll just say that for me, music has always been tied to my art. Inextricably. When I put on music as I paint it’s not just background noise, it’s actively informing the piece. This is an example of me taking that to the logical extreme, this entire piece was made and crafted by the music I heard as I painted it. Using Beatles (and solo career) songs from across their lifespan, the finished piece becomes a visual symphony of shared history between Paul McCartney and John Lennon. Everything shared, and everything left unsaid.

[oneofthebeautifulpeople]

Call me crazy but please tell me I’m not the only one who hears Paul’s voice here too, just below John’s?? To my knowledge they didn’t do voice doubling on this song and this is the only part where two voices are heard. Did Paul just decide to scream the verse too at this particular point in the song for some reason? Can anyone who knows more about it than me confirm or deny it’s driving me crazy.

If they are then it becomes hilarious, because I can just imagine the others in the room with them while they were all recording, being forced to listen to these two basically have musical hate sex, radiating angst while on the brink of a divorce all like

[asurrogateblog]

I think we need to take a page from the fleetwood mac fans and re-sensitize ourselves to how crazy it is to write songs about your breakup while the breakup is happening in a band with the person who you're breaking up with and then performing said breakup songs with said person

[hyusworld]

glasses

tooootally not self inserting into john

[beagle-amarelo]

Hey! And also for the fellow old band fans, I'm also a band fan artist! I have all of these on sale in my INPRNT shop. If you can't buy one right now, feel free to follow me to keep seeing more of these guys in your dash :^)

[javelinbk]

The Beatles - Get Back / Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart

[eaatmyheaart]

the look of endearment.

[ringosmistress]

[martikmeow]

some sketches with bugs!!!⭐️💘

[foryouwereinmysong]

“Now and then, I miss you / Now and then, I want you to be there for me / Always to return to me,” (...) It’s a passage where Lennon’s yearning for McCartney intertwines with Paul’s mourning for John, a shared grieving for the partnership that defined both their lives. link

"Now and Then" is 81-year-old Paul McCartney finishing a song of John Lennon, who has been gone for almost 43 years.

But it is also 15-year-old Paul finishing a song of the boy who wandered around Liverpool with him, talking about their future and love of music.

It is 18-year-old Paul finishing a song of the guy who picked him as his partner and took him to play nightclubs in Hamburg.

It is 20-year-old Paul finishing a song of the lad who wanted to write song after song with him.

It is 23-year-old Paul finishing a song of the man he made history with.

It is 24-year-old Paul finishing a song of the soulmate who shared his visions.

It is 26-year-old Paul finishing a song of the person who serenaded him eating a cupcake.

It is 31-year-old Paul finishing a song of John, who loved him in his own way.

And it is 39-year-old Paul finishing a song of the friend he just lost.

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[fansplaining]

We're thrilled to publish our newest piece—this time by a returning writer. @areyougonnabe first wrote for us about Tumblr back in 2020 (and also was one of the podcast's final guests this year before we went on hiatus). Now she's back with a deep dive into contemporary classic rock fandom—the shippy, transformative kind—and the interesting temporal shift that happens within historical RPF:

Today’s young Beatles fans can consume every atom of sound and image from the 1960s, but however fond they are of Ringo’s silly tweets or Paul’s new music, there’s a line of demarcation somewhere in the past which spiritually separates then from now. Real-time, ongoing celebrity pop culture can be full of anxieties, but an older band’s story can be more like reading a book that was already written. 

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