#sgt pepper era

[starrybluez]

John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, David Crosby

[flytotheway]

I would listen George Martin for hours why I didn't have a teacher or a professor like him?

The emotion on Paul face while he listens John's voice and then a crazy meltdown. Complete and totally nromal Mccartney's behaviour

1992: George Martin and Paul McCartney listen to the vocal and instrumental tracks for ‘Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds’ at the mixing board. 

[harrisonsbabygirl]

I am in love with their fits in this.

[beatlesmenrock]

mclennon monday… the boys might be drawn today

[glennmillerorchestra]

thinking of doing 60s mod psychedelia for the beatles tribute show instead of a classic mod 60s look. this dress is DAY GLO baby

[get-back-homeward]

ETA: Listen to the audio on archive.org [x]

Q: “John, earlier before we started recording, you said it was in effect written as two separate songs.”

JOHN: “Yeah. I seem to remember, like, the submarine… the chorus bit, you coming in with it.”

PAUL: “Yeah.”

JOHN: “And wasn’t the other bit something that I had already going, and we put them together?”

[interview taped for the Ivor Novello Awards night in March 1967]

[idontwanttospoiltheparty]

also didn't realize people think "album artist" = "embodying an era with your entire aesthetic for a years-long period of time"??

[pjharvey-moved]

every time i talk about the beatles my mom is like “you used to hate the beatles” and i have to explain to her that i said that in literally 2014 and if you were an emo fall out boy fan in 2014 trying to impress another emo fall out boy fan you had a gay crush on and also you were both in the eighth grade it was cool and hip to hate the beatles and talk about how they were overrated. but it wasn’t my heart.

[likeadevils]

Who do you think are the artists that reinvents the most apart from Taylor?

i’m sure there’s a good handful but if i can be myopic about my hyperfixations for a minute the venn diagram between taylor swift and paul mccartney is large and storied and album-centered reinvention is one of many bullet points

[voltrons]

beyoncé what would we even do without you

[dailyhowl]

Loops

They had driven back from the studio. Paul in his pearl-white suit and plum loafers. John in striped apricot pants and a wine silk shirt. They floated into John’s home, navigating the music room by lamplight. John cradled a violin to his flushed cheek and Paul sat at the keys. The tapes spun and the tabs on their tongues melted. And then so did everything else. (Sgt Pepper Era)

[menlove]

Hey! I'm new in the fandom and I was wondering if you have any essential/good fic recs? Idk where to start haha

of course !! i made one like this a while ago but i can't find it so i'll make another and actually put it in a fic recs tag this time lmfao. also here's all my bookmarks if you wanna take a gander there!

i also did a list earlier this week with early days/hamburg fics and then one for like. longer fics that follow them through their lives, kinda.

but here's my all-time favorites (so far)!

your lucky break (by @forthlin hiiiii miles)

explicit. 17k.

When Paul was nine years old, he watched John Lennon sing Twist and Shout on Sunday Night at the London Palladium. Where Paul is a rising singer in the 1970s who grew up idolizing performer-turned-producer John Lennon.

John My Beloved

explicit. 33k. user-only. They've always loved each other, in their own way…

Gretna Green Waltz

explicit. 21k. TRACK NAME: “GRETNA GREEN WALTZ” “JOHNNY’S WALTZ” “JUNK” A fleeting melody chases Paul for decades—a tune half-remembered, a life half-lived. This is its story.

a summer wasting (by @gaitskiller hi eliza)

explicit. 16k. London, 1967: Wish fulfilment, a lot of interrupted kisses, drugs in excess, and a hot, hot summer.

i was a younger man then (now) (post hoc)

mature. 27k. John’s twelve when a bloke appears from a flaming pie and says, “From this day forward you are Beatles with an ‘a.’” The bloke is Paul. Or: paul and john meet at all ages and eras and john is the time-traveler’s wife the way only john lennon can be

I Still Miss Someone

explicit. 64k. It's 1976 and Paul keeps showing up on John's doorstep with a guitar. Eventually John turns him away and Paul goes off to sulk in his hotel room the night before his flight from New York. Based on real events.

When You Are Young They Assume You Know Nothing

mature. 26k. But Paul knows John. There’s something about Paris, though...

Way Up Top

explicit. 12k. Falling out of the sky, together. | Snapshots of the Beatles in Greece, July 1967

1967

mature. 11k.

In 1961, John Lennon and Paul McCartney left abruptly on a trip to Spain, via France. In 1967, they finally come home to face the consequences.

I Do

explicit. 73k. A collection of stories about John and Paul’s developing relationship, with weddings as the theme for the day.

The First Year

explicit. 19k. Get back to where you once belonged. note from meee: since this summary doesn't explain much- it's the first year of them knowing each other.

filling the cracks that ran through the door (by @wronglennon hello aoife)

mature. 4k. user-only. paul/stu centric. John and Stu are in a fight.

always, no sometimes

explicit. 20k. user-only. Stolen moments from a single year. Or: four times someone nearly found John and Paul together, and the one time they found each other. Set around the recording of Sgt. Pepper, 1966.

[stardustvanfleet]

gvf is in their sgt pepper era where suddenly everyone has a mustache

[ceofjohnlennon]

George Harrison doing the iconic mustache for the Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band era. ㅡ From The Beatles Monthly Book n°43, February/1967.

[lennonblues]

OMG I need help I've been unable to come up w a post for a McLennon drawing for my poll from whenever HELPPP

I'M NOT AN AVID MCLENNON PERSON I'M SO LOST AND OUT OF MY LEAGUE IDK WHAT TO DRAW GIVE ME A STUPID IDEA GIVE ME SMTH

Im not really a mclennon girlie either dude i totally get it 😭 I couldn't decide on one so here's a few ideas to pick from

-Something super psychadelic and colorful of them like idk morphing into each other like their faces are joined at the eye or something

-Them touching cigs like this

-them during the sgt pepper era kissing sloppy style

-like a pop art collage with pictures and drawings of them in the 70s

-Major McCartney and Wizard John

-Redraw of the lobster posters

-yuri

[mister-strawberry-man]

some of my favourite beatles things:

songs:

A Day in the Life

Strawberry Fields Forever

Eleanor Rigby

Dear Prudence

I am the Walrus

Tomorrow Never Knows

She’s Leaving Home

The Fool on the Hill

While My Guitar Gently Weeps

Happiness is a Warm Gun

albums

Revolver

Sgt. Pepper

Abbey Road

Magical Mystery Tour

Rubber Soul

White Album

Help!

other things:

beatle: Paul

movie: Help!

live performance: rooftop concert

era: Sgt. Pepper / moustache era

trivia: paul & john’s meeting at the church fête.