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"[While discussing Two Of Us] Wherever Linda and I got away, we would buy lots of postcards and send them to all our friends. John was also a great postcard sender, so you'd get some great stuff from him."

-Paul, The Lyrics (2021)

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Hi! What is the source of the quote "Paul and John were emotional partners in a powerful, creative and loving way"??

That was said by Paul Saltzman, who met the Beatles in India in 1968.

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Did Paul McCartney ever say “there was a deeper love there that neither of us could admit too” about him and Johns relationship? I saw it floating around but i don’t think it’s true, especially since I can’t find a source

He most likely didn't say that. I never found the source of that quote. There's lots of fake mclennon quotes .

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Do you think Paul made more songs for Linda or John? (not directly said for Linda or John of course)

Linda. She was his wife for almost 30 years and the mother of his children. It wouldn't make sense to me that Paul would write more songs about John than about Linda.

I want to take this opportunity to clarify something: Many people who read my posts become angry because they get the impression that I believe that John was everything to Paul and that he cared more about him than Linda (OneSweetDream podcast actually blocked me on tumblr because of this). You can't blame people for thinking that Paul's world revolves around John. Paul seems obsessed with John. Just look at the way he talks about him, how often he mentions John out of the blue, etc. My blog is full of these quotes. I don't make them up. HOWEVER, my blog focuses mainly on the relationship between John and Paul because it's the most intriguing to me, not because I believe that Paul loved John more than Linda.

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Hello, I see a lot of people saying that once Yoko dies, Paul will tell us what happened in India (or he’ll at least stop filtering things when talking about him and john’s relationship) however I never found a source for this claim of his. I was wondering if you maybe knew where it came from? I’m starting to deny its existence..

That's not really what Paul said and he never mentioned India. This is what he actually said on a phone call to Hunter Davies in 1981:

“I have some juicy stuff I could tell about John. But I wouldn’t. Not when Yoko’s alive, or Cynthia. John would. He would grab, go for the action, say the first thing in his head. We admired him for that. It was honesty; but it could hurt. And it wasn’t really all THAT honest. He KNEW he could hurt. He could be wicked. But I’m always sensible. That’s me. I would never say the things he said."

And Julian Lennon has recently said a couple of times that Paul has told him on many occasions that he's got some things to tell him about his father "that he has never told anybody". Julian says that Paul is always saying "I've got stuff to tell you".

*And BTW, I'm not even really sure that something particularly important happened while in India. Whatever happened between them probably ocurred AFTER they left India. Most likely during or after Paul and John's trip to New York right after India. By all accounts, they were getting along quite well during the trip and were still very close. But this was also the first time John saw Linda and wondered why Paul was bothering with her. And then after they returned to England he started to publicly go out with Yoko. And when they returned to the studio to record the White Album, their relationship had suddenly become strained. So I think it's possible that the turning point was New York and not India.

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Is there a line from a song Paul wrote about John that you think doesn't get the attention it deserves?

Yes! The last verse of Too Many People:

Why would Paul write this to taunt John? Think about it.

And it's funny beacuse Paul once said:

"In one song, I wrote, ‘Too many people preaching practices,’ I think is the line. I mean, that was a little dig at John and Yoko. There wasn’t anything else on it that was about them." (Playboy, 1984)

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"They were the final arbiters of everything between themselves"

Q: Were you around when [John and Paul] started to get angry with each other? John Dunbar: Oh yeah. I mean, 'cause that was, uh, about Yoko, really. [...] Let me tell you what I can remember is Paul and John were the best pals, really, right? They spent all their time together and stuff, and they had individual lives. But in the end they were the final sort of arbiters of everything between themselves. Yoko completely took over John. I mean, Paul just really felt left out and just hated it, you know what I mean?

-All You Need Is Love: The Beatles in Their Own Words (2024)

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“When we sang together,” Lennon told Mintz in one of their conversations, “Paul and I would share the same microphone. I’d be close enough to kiss him. Back then, I didn’t wear me specs onstage – Brian Epstein said they made me look old. So we’d be playing these concerts, in front of thousands of people, but the only thing I could see was Paul’s face. He was always there next to me – I could always feel his presence. It’s what I remember most about those concerts.”

(x)

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"Nobody was remotely interested in this idea of I wrote songs until I met John! And I’d seen him around Liverpool, he’d got on a bus once and I said: Woah, look at this guy! At the big sideboards, you know, the hair swept back. I thought: He’s got something going."

—Paul (Howard Stern Show, 2020)

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"Growing up in 1950s Liverpool as a guy, you most certainly had to hide away your feelings. Guys would never say 'I love you' to each other. We were just too busy trying to be macho, and we didn't realise it might make you a tad thoughtless sometimes. It was only later, as we matured, that we realised we were doing it because we were trying to be hard, young Liverpool guys. I think a lot of people still do hide away their feelings, but I'm lucky to have got out of that. Not totally, perhaps." (Paul on his song "Too Much Rain", The Lyrics, 2021)

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Paul on Arrow Through Me (written in 1978)

"The character in the song has been wounded. He's been cheated on. And it could've been a great relationship, could've been fantastic. As things stand, you couldn't ''have found a more down hero'', because there was nobody more down than me at that moment." (The Lyrics, 2021)

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"Just because I was involved with Jane at the time doesn't mean this song (I Will) is addressed to, or about, Jane. [...] It's a declaration of love, yes, but not always to someone specific. Unless it's to a person out there who's listening to the song. And they have to be ready for it. It's almost definitely not going to be a person who's said, 'There he goes again, writing another of those silly love songs.'"

-Paul, The Lyrics (2021)

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"I thought I'd do that on stage but then someone suggested, 'Why don't you do one of John's? That would be more poignant.' And it would, I don't know if I could even get through it -- you've got to deal with the emotion of something like that. But it would be nice to make a nod or a wink to the lad, cos he was great. He was a major influence on my life, as I suppose I was on his. But the great thing about me and John is that it was me and John, end of story."-Paul (x)

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was 'oh! darling' really written for John?

I think it's possible. In Get Back, Paul makes a connection between Oh! Darling and Don't let Me Down (with the line "Oh darling, I will never let you down"), saying that there is "a story" going on there. Besides, I always found it odd that Paul has never sung Oh! Darling in his concerts. Someone said it was likely because it's a hard song to sing at his age, but he also never sang it when he was younger either. Also this is the only song from Abbey Road he doesn't explain or even mention in his The Lyrics book. Interesting.

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your work on mclennon research is completely wonderful <3

Thank you! 💗

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Hello! Sometimes I have the impression that many songs that Paul made claiming to be for Linda actually seem to be for John, do you feel that way too? Sometimes I also feel that Paul made a lot of More music for John than he claims to have ever made...

Yes! A couple of months ago I read a quote by Paul were he said that after the Beatles breakup he wrote A LOT of songs about John. Wich it's interesting because the only ones from that period that he has admitted were about John are Dear Friend and "some lines" from Too Many People.

It seems like he feels uncomfortable admitting he wrote so many songs about John. He once said "We were guys; it wasn't like a boy and a girl. In those days you didn't release that much emotion with each other."

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hi, in which episode of OSD podcast did Chris Salewicz say those things?

https://onesweetdreampodcast.com/episodes/interview-series-paul-as-artist-with-chris-salewicz-271