#sad little bi ghetto scouser x sad little gay freak

[merrysithmas]

another thing that really interests me after hearing the demo verison of "Goodbye" (which was the song written by Paul and given to Mary Hopkin) are the songs written by Lennon/McCartney that they "gave away" for others to sing.

when listening to the Goodbye demo we hear for the first (and only?) time Paul singing yearningly to a enigmatic and mournful male lover who "calls him to his side" by the beat of a lonely drum, a call that Paul, touchingly, describes that he must answer with an emotionally stalwart devotion reminescent of two lovers separated by a war (or ... a world that will not let them publically love one another).

TO ME it's so obvious he "GAVE THIS SONG AWAY" only because he couldn't sing it with it's original intended pronouns or face homophobic backlash, and so gave it to a female singer (actually he specifically scouted and signed a female singer SO she could sing it...).

I've always noticed so many Beatles songs avoid the use of pronouns in love songs or use amorphous language such as the abstract "Girl" sung about in the song that shares the name. This to me speaks very clearly to a few things - one: marketing savvy, two: queer writers, three: their cultural awareness of needing to hide their feelings or WANTING to hide them for their own safety and privacy. but alongside that can come a lot of inner pain, as most queer people know, even if it is a choice for safety and/or peace of mind's sake.

being the most famous men in the world - it was clearly a combination of all those things.

so ANYWAY, after discovering this demo a while ago and also John's demo for "Bad to Me" I've gotten really interested in which songs the two "GAVE AWAY" aka perhaps didn't want to change or felt was too much of a dead giveaway regarding their emotional origins so they handed them off.

Here's a list I found in case anyone else wants to look into it too for crumbs!

[The one I cut off in the first pic was "I Am The Greatest" the song John gave to Ringo]