#paul and tara browne

[johns-prince]

Tara vs. John: Paul's LSD Experience

One night, after closing time, Paul was back at Eaton Row with a party that included Sir Mark Palmer; Patrick Kerr, the dancer from Ready Steady Go!; and Viv Prince, the drummer with The Pretty Things; as well as a bunch of girls who had become attached to them in the Scotch. Tara was taking acid on blotting paper in the toilet, McCartney remembered in Many Years From Now, and offered him some. McCartney was unsure, but he accepted. According to Nicki, Tara didn’t actually take it that night. ‘Because it was Paul’s first time,’ she said, ‘he felt it was important for him to stay lucid just in case Paul had a bad trip. And what Paul did was he spent his whole trip looking at this art book of mine called Private View. He wasn’t interested in any of the females there. He wasn’t interested in listening to music either. He was just staring at this art book. I wish it had been more fun for him.’ Paul stayed up all night having what he described as a ‘spacy’ experience. He told Barry Miles that he saw paisley shapes and was super-sensitive to the fact that his shirtsleeves were dirty. He had an engagement the following day, but he couldn’t get it together. When Brian Epstein’s secretary tracked him down to Tara and Nicki’s mews, he told her he had flu and asked her to cancel his commitments for the day. John later said he thought Paul regretted taking it. Paul said it was something that he wouldn’t want to have missed but he would always have mixed feelings about what happened in Tara’s house that night. For all his ambivalence about taking acid, it would have a profound effect on him.

—I Read the News Today, Oh Boy, Paul Howard (source)

I was more ready for the drink or a little bit of pot or something. I’d not wanted to do it, I’d held off like a lot of people were trying to, but there was massive peer pressure. And within a band, it’s more than peer pressure, it’s fear pressure. It becomes trebled, more than just your mates, it’s, 'Hey, man, this whole band’s had acid, why are you holding out? What’s the reason, what is it about you?’ So I knew I would have to out of peer pressure alone. And that night I thought, well, this is as good a time as any, so I said, 'Go on then, fine.’ So we all did it. . . . It was such a mind-expanding thing. I saw paisley shapes and weird things, and for a guy who wasn’t that keen on getting that weird, there was a disturbing element to it. I remember looking at my shirtsleeves and seeing they were dirty and not being too pleased with that, whereas normally you wouldn’t even notice. But you noticed and you heard. Everything was supersensitive.

—Paul McCartney, Many Years From Now by Barry Miles (source)

“We stood there for a minute or two, with John swaying gently against my arm. ‘I’m feeling better,’ he announced. Then he looked up at the stars. 'Wow..’ he intoned. 'Look at that! Isn’t that amazing?“ I followed his gaze. The stars did look good but they didn’t look that good. It was very unlike John to be over the top in that way. I stared at him. He was wired-pin-sharp and quivering, resonating away like a human tuning fork. No sooner had John uttered his immortal words about the stars than George and Paul came bursting out on the roof. They had come tearing up from the studio as soon as they found out where we were. They knew why John was feeling unwell. Maybe everyone else did, too - everyone except for father-figure George Martin here! It was very simple. John was tripping on LSD. He had taken it by mistake, they said - he had meant to take an amphetamine tablet. That hardly made any difference, frankly; the fact was that John was only too likely to imagine he could fly, and launch himself off the low parapet that ran around the roof. They had been absolutely terrified that he might do so.  I spoke to Paul about this night many years later, and he confirmed that he and George had been shaken rigid when they found out we were up on the roof. They knew John was having a what you might call a bad trip. John didn’t go back to Weybridge that night; Paul took him home to his place, in nearby Cavendish Road. They were intensely close, remember, and Paul would do almost anything for John. So, once they were safe inside, Paul took a tablet of LSD for the first time, 'So I could get with John’ as he put it- be with him in his misery and fear. What about that for friendship?”

—George Martin, Anthology (source) (source)

"I thought, Maybe this is the moment where I should take a trip with him. It’s been coming for a long time. It’s often the best way, without thinking about it too much, just slip into it. John’s on it already, so I’ll sort of catch up. It was my first trip with John, or with any of the guys. We stayed up all night, sat around and hallucinated a lot.  Me and John, we’d known each other for a long time. Along with George and Ringo, we were best mates. And we looked into each other’s eyes, the eye contact thing we used to do, which is fairly mind-boggling. You dissolve into each other. But that’s what we did, round about that time, that’s what we did a lot. And it was amazing. You’re looking into each other’s eyes and you would want to look away, but you wouldn’t, and you could see yourself in the other person. It was a very freaky experience and I was totally blown away.  There’s something disturbing about it. You ask yourself, 'How do you come back from it? How do you then lead a normal life after that?’ And the answer is, you don’t. After that you’ve got to get trepanned or you’ve got to meditate for the rest of your life. You’ve got to make a decision which way you’re going to go.  I would walk out into the garden - 'Oh no, I’ve got to go back in.’ It was very tiring, walking made me very tired, wasted me, always wasted me. But 'I’ve got to do it, for my well-being.’ In the meantime John had been sitting around very enigmatically and I had a big vision of him as a king, the absolute Emperor of Eternity. It was a good trip. It was great but I wanted to go to bed after a while.   I’d just had enough after about four or five hours. John was quite amazed that it had struck me in that way. John said, 'Go to bed? You won’t sleep!’ 'I know that, I’ve still got to go to bed.’ I thought, now that’s enough fun and partying, now … It’s like with drink. That’s enough. That was a lot of fun, now I gotta go and sleep this off. But of course you don’t just sleep off an acid trip so I went to bed and hallucinated a lot in bed. I remember Mal coming up and checking that I was all right. 'Yeah, I think so.’ I mean, I could feel every inch of the house, and John seemed like some sort of emperor in control of it all. It was quite strange. Of course he was just sitting there, very inscrutably.”

—Paul McCartney, Many Years From Now by Barry Miles (source) (source)

Paul and Mal Evans came to stay with us somewhere in the late spring of 1967. (…) Paul and Mal, this time, were full of tales of this here LSD and what it could do. Unrecognisable psyches on familiar heads and shoulders: the voice was Paul’s but the tone was … God’s? Paul said he and John had had ‘this fantastic thing’; which really wasn’t very informative, so I pressed him to flesh it out. ‘Incredible, really, just locked into each other’s eyes … Like, just staring and then saying, “I know, man” and then laughing … And it was great , you know.’ … Realising he wasn’t getting through, Paul said, ‘You’ll just have to try it.

—Derek Taylor, Fifty Years Adrift, 1983. (source)

“When I came back after five months, Paul had changed so much. He was on LSD which I hadn’t shared. I was jealous of the spiritual experiences he’d had with John.”

—Jane Asher, The Beatles Hunter Davies. (source)

[tavolgisvist]

A Day in the Life

Q: Then the tricky one that the BBC banned – ‘A Day in the Life’. It’s been said that this is a sort of requiem to Tara Brown (the heir to the Guinness Trust, killed last December in a car crash in London). A: I’ve heard that. I don’t think John had that in mind at all. The real words to that are ‘Read the news today’. There’d been a story about a man who’d made the grade, and there’d been a photograph of him sitting in his car. John said ‘I had to laugh’. He’d sort of blown his mind out in the car. Q: Literally, with a gun? A: No, he was just high on whatever he uses, say he was pissed in this big Bentley, sitting at the traffic lights. He’s driving today; the chauffeur isn’t there, and maybe he got high because of that. The lights have changed and he hasn’t noticed that there’s a crowd of housewives and they’re all looking at him saying ‘Who’s that? I’ve seen him in the papers’ and they’re not sure if he’s from the House of Lords. He looks a bit like that with his homburg and white scarf and he’s out of his screws. That’s a bit of black comedy…

(Paul McCartney, November 1967, interview with Alan Aldridge for The Observer)

The verse about the politician blowing his mind out in a car we wrote together. It has been attributed to Tara Browne, the Guinness heir, which I don't believe is the case, certainly as we were writing it, I was not attributing it to Tara in my head. In John's head it might have been. In my head I was imagining a politician bombed out on drugs who'd stopped at some traffic lights and he didn't notice that the lights had changed. The "blew his mind" was purely a drug reference, nothing to do with a car crash. In actual fact I think I spent more time with Tara than John did. I'd taken Tara up to Liverpool. I was with Tara when I had the accident when I split my lip. We were really quite good friends and I introduced him to John. Anyway, if John said he was thinking of Tara, then he was, but in my mind it wasn't to do with that.

(Paul McCartney, 1997, Many Years from Now by Barry Miles)

I did once have an accident in Liverpool where I fell off a moped and busted my lip open, and we had to get the doctor round to my cousin Betty’s house. That was around this same time, when I was twenty-something and going out on the moped from my dad’s house to Betty’s house. I was taking a friend, Tara Guinness. He died later in a car accident. He was a nice boy. I wrote about him in ‘A Day in the Life’: ‘He blew his mind out in a car / He didn’t notice that the lights had changed’. Anyway, I was with Tara and had an accident – fell off my moped, busted my lip, went to Betty’s, and she said, ‘Get a doctor, get a doctor. It needs stitches.’

(Paul McCartney about Rocky Raccoon (!), The Lyrics, 2021)

[bbbrianjones]

“HE BLEW HIS MIND OUT IN A CAR... HE DIDN’T NOTICE THAT THE LIGHTS HAD CHANGED”

TARA BROWNE [04.03.1945-18.12.1966]

“He looked like something that had fallen from the ceilings of the Sistine Chapel. He was like a king in his own terrain. He was miles ahead of his years. I’d never met anyone like him. He was completely unique.” - Glen Kidston, a friend of Tara’s

“He was this charming, very young-looking, rather frail-looking child. Very blonde, with big eyes and I think clad in something that put me in the mind of Little Lord Fauntleroy. And he was dancing in a very wild and deranged fashion. I’d never clapped eyes on him before and I thought, “Who is this strange flower that’s suddenly sprouted in the garden?” - Christopher Gibbs

“It was like a death knell sounding over London. I think it was a definite turning point for a lot of us. It was the end of the sixties for many people. To have someone who was so full of life and so full of joy suddenly taken from you, it made you very pessimistic and cynical about the world, which is what we'd all been trying so hard not to be.” - Marianne Faithfull

[gardenwalrus]

In my mind's eye the last image of that night is this: John and Yoko, both completely legless, deciding to drive themselves in the psychedelic Rolls over to Ringo's old flat on Montagu Square. They would've crashed and killed themselves. Driving wasn't John's forte, never mind the acid. I see Spanish Tony, keeping himself cool on coke and smack, rushing out and putting them in a taxi. He hands the driver a twenty-quid note and tells him, 'Don't let them out till you get to 38 Montagu Square.'

- Marianne Faithfull on Mick Jagger's party at the The Vesuvio Club, 8 August 1968. Within Memories, Dreams and Reflections (2007)

['Spanish Tony' is Tony Sanchez, drug dealer and owner of The Vesuvio. Longer quote on the party under the cut of this reblog]

[ludmilachaibemachado]

Brian Jones with Anita Pallenberg, Nick & Tara Browne, and Paul & Talitha Getty, Tripping on the Moors, Ireland, 1967. Photographer Michael Cooper🌻🍂🌺

Via I🖤Sixties Models/ Fashion! FB🌼

[crepesuzette2023]

ooh Mike/Tara? Interesting!

This one is in the early stages, meaning I have one page and a general idea and free-floating images, but yes--it's from Mike's POV. Tara took Mike to Paris, and it's centered on that, but it's also about Mike's observations of Paul, and John, and the LSD issue, and of course that grisly polaroid. A story about brothers and their shared childhood and weird memories, and the danger of losing each other, and trying to hold on? Then there's the '68 wedding, and the McGear album. So much material. It might be beyond my current skills, but you know what they say: the more you do, the more you can do. (Very Paul.)

[beatleskinkmeme]

paul wants to try having sex with a man just once (for artistic purposes so he can see himself as truly living a bohemian lifestyle). he ends up having sex with tara browne at a party, but for some reason can’t stop wishing that tara was john

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[ohjohnnysblog]

This Boy

https://archiveofourown.org/works/62530042

[got-ticket-to-ride]

13 for the Beatles ask game :)

13. If you could travel back in time to one Beatles event, which would it be?

Acid trips. The first time when Paul dropped acid with John. I would drop acid with them and join their trip, WHAT DID THEY SEE? WHY WAS REVOLVER SO GOOD? WHY WAS JOHN THE EMPEROR OF THE UNIVERSE?

Why did Paul drop acid with Tara first and invited him to the family Christmas party and not John? I love me a good Hallmark movie, where the childhood friend (John) is jealous and the rich, privileged guy (Tara) gets to impress the family in the small town.

WHY PAUL, WHY?

(also wasted this question because I should've gone to one of their concerts or fucking went to Hamburg and joined their flea infested mattresses at Bambi Kinos. Rat boys for life).

[ljblueteak]

Andy Warhol, Gerard Malanga, Michael Cooper and Robert Fraser by Michael Cooper. Text by Paul McCartney (transcribed below)

Andy Warhol was lovely. We had dinner one evening at a place that used to be called The Baghdad House in Fulham Road, where the big attraction was that you could smoke hash downstairs. Andy knew Robert quite well and he came down and showed one of his films at my house. He was a very shy, quiet guy who didn't talk much, but he seemed very interesting.

The film that we looked at at the time was of the Empire State Building and there was something like three hours of one building, which is pretty tough going--it was a good job we were into pot, because we couldn't have handled it otherwise!

Tara Browne got killed very near The Baghdad House one evening and that's another connection in mind mind. Tara was such a sweet guy.

[kinsfaun]

A travesty! Not THE FACE....

59 years since this diva messed up his face baaaad

[wouldyourecognizethisperson-poll]

Top 50 Most Recognized

(As of April 9)

Dwayne (The Rock) Johnson - 99.4% of poll respondents recognized

Gordon Ramsay - 98.9

Ellen Degeneres - 97.9

Will Smith - 97.4

Daniel Radcliffe - 96.1

Benedict Cumberbatch - 96

Bob Ross - 95.9

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Leonardo DiCaprio - 94

Misha Collins [TIED] Rowan Atkinson - 93.4

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25 Least Recognized

Steve Gonsalves (Ghost Hunters) - 0.3% of voters recognized, [TIED] Jackson Browne (Musician) - 0.3

Forrest Wheeler (Fresh Off the Boat) - 0.4

Tara Lipinski (Olympic ice skater) [TIED] Yanni (Greek musician) [TIED] George Lazenby (On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Becoming Bond) [TIED] Génesis Rodríguez (The Umbrella Academy, Special Ops: Lioness) - 0.5

Ted Leo (Musician, Ted Leo & the Pharmacists) - 0.6

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Isaiah Thomas (basketball player) [TIED], Tippi Hedren (The Birds) - 0.9

Brian Eno (Musician) [TIED] Lauren Daigle (Musician) [TIED] Jeremy Sumpter (Peter Pan), Scout Taylor Compton (Halloween remake) [TIED] Eve Plumb (The Brady Bunch) [TIED] Dale Earnhardt Jr (Racecar driver) - 1

Kate Maberly (The Secret Garden) [TIED] Blu Cantrell (Musician) - 1.1

Joss Stone (Musician) [TIED] Chuck Lorre (TV producer) [TIED] Amy Shark (Musician) - 1.3

Patricia Quinn (Rocky Horror Picture Show) [TIED] Joshua Bell (Musician) [TIED] Michelle Phillips (Musician, The Mamas and the Papas) [TIED] Patti Hansen (Model) - 1.4

Kaori Sakamoto (Olympic figure skater) - 1.5

Lance Armstrong (Disgraced bicyclist) [TIED] Thalia (Musician) [TIED] Louisa Jacobson (The Gilded Age) [TIED] Lupe Fiasco (Rapper) [TIED] Tommy Hilfiger (fashion designer) - 1.6

Grace Slick (Musician, Jefferson Airplane) [TIED] Gloria Gaynor (Musician) [TIED] Michelle Kwan (Olympic figure skater) [TIED] Rachel Platten (Musician) - 1.7

Sean Paul (Musician) - 1.8

Taio Cruz (Musician) - 1.9

Andrew VanWyngarden (Musician, MGMT) [TIED] Julie Christie (Doctor Zhivago) [TIED] Nancy Wilson (Musician, Heart) [TIED] Steve Miller (Musician, Steve Miller Band) [TIED] Criss Angel (Magician) [TIED] Wolfgang Puck (Chef) - 2

Jennifer Grey (Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Dirty Dancing) [TIED] Dave Davies (Musician, the Kinks) [TIED] Sarah Polley (Women Talking) - 2.1

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Salman Khan () [TIED] Ray Davies (Musician, the Kinks) [TIED] Barry Gibb (Musician, the Bee Gees) [TIED] Eva Marie Saint (North by Northwest) [TIED] Trisha Yearwood (Musician) [TIED] Taj Mahal (Musician) [TIED] Kenny Loggins (Musician) - 2.4

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Tom Waits (Musician) [TIED] Sienna Miller (Anatomy of a Scandal) [TIED] Maria Sharapova (tennis player) [TIED] Tonya Harding (Olympic figure skater) [TIED] Barry Bonds (Baseball player) - 2.9

[ludmilachaibemachado]

Brian Jones, Nicky Browne, Tara Browne, Paul Getty Jr, Talitha Getty & Anita Pallenberg photographed by Michael Cooper in Ireland on Tara's 21st birthday, 1966🥀🍃🍂

"The first time I met Robert was in Ireland when he was chaperoning Mick, Keith, Marianne Faithfull and Anita Pallenberg at Desmond Guinness's superb Georgian castle, Leixlip, near Dublin. Mick and Marianne were lording around the grounds like the old money Mick was not. It was amazing how quickly he laundered himself from a terraced house in Dartford to a very large castle in Ireland. It had taken the Guinnesses a hundred and fifty years to achieve the same transformation. It took Mick fifteen months." -Andrew Loog Oldham🥀🍃

Via @weirdtvland on Instagram🍂

[crepesuzette2023]

For John's Birthday: some of my favorite John POV fics

Drop Chute (bookofapril). "The last stall on the end had an “out of service” sign on it: he darted in, locked the door, and sat down on the lid of the toilet. Thank god it was clean. He put his glasses in his pocket. Then he drew up his legs and rested his head on his knees, the cool embroidered satin of his trousers a balm on his forehead, safely hidden from sight." (1967, John vs. Robert F.)

I Think of Things We Did (J_Deandra_j). "He sucked Paul’s dumb, lovely fat lips, licked his teeth, tasted the drumbeat of Paul’s heart in the stubble threatening to erupt beneath his jaw, and his soul awoke like a sad bitch at the shudder of Paul’s skin under his tongue." (Obertauern)

at midnight (anonymous). "The first time John lets another man press against him, it feels like dying." (Long brilliant character study)

Sunday Driver (@boshemians). "Tara Browne is the kind of pretty boy who wouldn’t bat an eye at being called one. Proud of it, even, and not shy of an excuse to do just that—bat his eyes, or eyelashes really, at anyone. Men, women, dogs. It annoys John when Paul does it but it annoys him even more in Tara because of the money thing, the always having had it, so that he is not so much coy as simpering." (65/66, John v. Tara B.)

February in New Orleans (@eveepe). “Kiss it,” said May, from where she was tucked in beside Linda. “Go on, he likes that.”—“Do what she says, baby.” Linda leaned over to slide her hand into Paul’s hair and guide his head gently towards John. (John and May visit Paul and Linda in 1975)

deeper than oceans you run (@orphanbeat). "Rich kisses him slowly, purposefully, as he does them all. John thinks he probably likes Rich’s kisses the best, then realizes that they all must do." (Beatles OT4, Greek Island AU)

Our Version of Events (@javelinbk). "There are also some stories that have just tilted the world’s axis slightly, asking questions like if Brian hadn’t found them, would they still be famous? The answer, according to that writer, was no, which John felt gave Brian far too much credit and Paul’s bullheadedness too little." (John discovers fan fiction in 1971)

non nobis solum (downtothelastdrop). “I think it’s cute,” Helen says again. “The way he looks at you. He likes to push back, doesn’t he, but I bet when you get down to it he’d do anything you asked.” (John's fascination with Paul in school uniform)

Bermuda (@scurator). "Today he felt that life really might begin at forty, if a bloke could just admit certain predilections to himself." (1980 as it should have been)

The McCartney Issue (@pauls1967moustache). "It’s only because it’s Perfect Beatle Paul with a dildo up his ass that anyone cares at all." (John Lennon's purely artistic appreciation of Linda McCartney's Playboy spread of her husband)

dreaming of the past (@revollver). "Meanwhile, the real Paul, sweet boyish features and Beatle-cut grown a touch too long, can be seen on the coffee table, inspecting the cupcake wrappers on George’s plate. All John gets is a brief look: soft curve of a furred thigh as Paul darts behind the paper cups. Graceful calf and perfect, miniature foot. Tantalising glimpse of one arse cheek." (1969 John imagines Tiny Paul to distract himelf from the present–with delightful consequences)

ageless children, animal sweat (eyeball2eyeball): "Looks like Pete’s got his night lined up, eh?” He looks back to John and rests his chin on his palm and smiles, this small secretive thing, and John can’t help but be convinced that Paul knows what he’s thinking somehow — dangerous, that. “What about you?” (Hamburg)

[beatleskinkmeme]

Paul takes Tara up to Liverpool to stay overnight with his family but either can't stop comparing or finally gets to live out his fantasies

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