#peter asher

[cleopatragirlie]

𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐀𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐬 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐚 𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐞'𝐬 '𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫'𝐬 𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐞' (𝟏𝟗𝟔𝟔)

[gardenwalrus]

Paul and Linda McCartney with Peter Asher and Linda Ronstadt, photographed by Robert Ellis, 1976

[ljblueteak]

Robert Fraser’s interview with Peter Brown and Steven Gaines, All You Need is Love

Some highlights:

Robert Fraser: Peter Asher was Jane’s brother. I think he brought Paul over to my place. He made me sorry because he saw a sculpture in my apartment and said, “I want that.” It was quite a lot of money for those days, it was like 2,500 quid. Paul never asked the price until he decided to buy something. If he liked it, he wanted it.

Steven Gaines: I guess they didn’t have to think about the price

Robert Fraser: No, but most people, even if they don’t have to think about it, they want to know the price. Paul was very, very open-minded, but he was also more…Well, John was too, but I mean John was sort of very difficult to…He was more difficult to…He was very shy in a way, and it comes out in an aggressive way.

Steven Gaines: It’s an odd decision Paul made to live at his girlfriend’s home with her parents.

Robert Fraser: Paul was a very domestic sort of personality. He liked the idea.

Peter Brown: I didn’t think twice about it, but looking back on it now, it was pretty ahead of its time to move in with your girlfriend’s family.

Robert Fraser: Even now, he’s done exactly what he wants. He’s not really like…He never really lived a rock star’s life.

[undying-love]

“That’s very hard to delve into [John and Paul's relationship]. They were great friends, and had great mutual respect, but they were also quite different from one another. I don’t know. Human relationships are tough to analyze. It’s like trying to talk about someone else’s marriage.” — Peter Asher (Jane's brother)

[groovybananastarfish]

[banjoandthepork]

Ron Kass interview: "One of the first things I was asked to do at Apple was to fire Peter Asher. Paul asked me to fire him because he said, "I'm breaking up with Jane, and it's embarrassing having her brother [Peter] around." I stalled him. I said, "You know, Peter really has a good ear. He's a musician, and I'd like to have him." Paul grumped a little bit and said he really preferred getting rid of him. He thought I had fired him, and Paul started to see Francie Schwartz, and enough time went that Paul forgot all about Peter. One day, Paul said to me, "Did you sack Peter Asher?" I said, "No." Paul just grumbled and walked away and that was the end of it."

-All You Need Is Love, Peter Brown & Steven Gaines

[underthecitysky]

I have Eyes of the Storm and just started to leaf through it and am totally overwhelmed.. it’s way more than I was expecting. I won’t be able to really go through it until tomorrow but just look at how he photographed Jane ..

I kind of love that she’s included .. and the comment about her hair (wonder what she thinks)

And Peter and the view from the back of Wimpole Street .. living for every crumb of detail about the life at the Asher’s.

[ladyjaneasherr]

Beautiful Jane Asher alongside her brother Peter Asher as she helped to set up the Indica Bookstore which was opened on January 28th, 1966. Jane had made a donation of a vintage till that she used as a child and Paul designated the logo for the bags. 🌻

[beatlepaul4ever]

So there’s Peter Asher, standing with a scantily-clad buxom Bunny girl on his arm and he has eyes only for the male bunny there.

[tearyourpetals]

Courtney Love and Peter Asher photographed by Chris Cuffaro, 2004

[harrisonarchive]

Photo 1 (from the arrival back in London) by Watford/Mirrorpix via Getty Images; photo 2 cross-posted at This Lovin' Time.

“First social call was to Peter Tork’s house. When we arrived Peter was wearing a string of beads and very little else, since it was far too hot to be anywhere but a swimming pool that day. Dave Crosby (Byrds) was there, too, and we had a good get-together. […] I suppose the highlight of L.A. this time for us was the session we had at Peter Tork’s place. Peter Asher joined us there — he played bass, Peter Tork was on piano, George and Dave Crosby on guitars and Ringo drumming.” - Mal Evans, The Beatles Monthly, August 1968

“Ringo Starr and George Harrison dropped by the Studio City home, Tork recalled. ‘We went swimming for a while in the pool.‘“ - The News Journal, July 16, 1989

“Just relaxed, just played what you could play. […] I played with Ringo Starr, Ringo, and George once, played with those guys. Same thing: bam, everything settles down, everything’s in order, everything is taken care of, and play what you can play.” - Peter Tork, Musicgroups, 2007

“Steve [Stills] was there [too], and he was embarrassed; he shook hands with George and kind of turned his back on him, the way shy guys will do. [...] We all jammed, Stephen and George and Ringo, and I was on keyboards, and I don’t remember who played bass. It was fabulous to hear Ringo play. My God, what a drummer. God, he was good. He was so solid, and the authority was astounding. I learned so much just by playing with him for five minutes; it was a wonderful experience.” Q: “It’s a bummer it didn’t get recorded.”
 PT: “It is too bad, nobody thought to record it. The best we had at the time was cassettes, but even so, that would have been a wonderful jam.” - Peter Tork, Rolling Stone, 2007; published 2019 (x)

(In connection with today's post: July 1967, post 1, July 1967, post 2, and January 1968.)

[cleopatragirlie]

❀ꗥ～ꗥ❀ 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐀𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐫 ❀ꗥ～ꗥ❀

[boxwright]

Peter And Gordon - Peter Asher

[ludmilachaibemachado]

John Dunbar, Marianne Faithfull kissing the best man Peter Asher, 1965🥀🥀🥀

Via Pinterest🥀

[rolloroberson]

Paul McCartney, with Peter Asher on bass guitar in the background, during recording sessions at Apple Studios in February of 1969. Photography by Ethan A. Russell © Apple Corps Ltd. (http://www.thebeatles.com/)

[ilovedig]

Anthology fic of how Paul would respond to an interview Jane did a few weeks ago depending on who he was with.

Some people you know and some you might not.

ch 1 - John (of course)

ch 2 - Peter Asher

Ch 3 - George Harrison

Ch 4 - Denny Laine

Ch 5 - Icke Braun (this one got away from me, it's significantly longer than the others.)

It's a great fic, super introspective of Paul and whoever he's with!

Check it out!

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