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Paul looks exactly like in George’s and Pattie’s wedding photo. Maybe he liked the look. And George looks fab, as always

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That was a very strange question about why you would not love Yoko. I mean, setting aside everything you know about her egregious behaviour, WHY would anyone who did not know Yoko personally love her? I mean, obviously people love John - his music enriched the world. But what does she have to do with that? She’s just some woman who no one would have heard of had she not married John.

It seems that a lot of people love Yoko. They see her as some kind feminist hero and ground breaking artists. And many people seem to think that meeting her was the greatest thing that ever happened to John. I'm not gonna repeat myself by commenting any of that. And all people have their own opinions and it's of course absolutely fine. The thing i really like about the beatles fandom here in tumblr is that unlike on every other social media, people tolerate differing opinions and don't fight.

The way I understood the question was that the person who sent it thought that I was blaming Yoko and giving John free pass and that is of course not true. John was a grown man and Julian's father and it was HIS responsibility to take care of his relationship to Julian.

But Yoko won't get a free pass from me either. It's obvious that she had a very strong hold on John and she could have used her influence to make sure that Cynthia was treated with the respect she deserved and that Julian had his father in his life even after his parents separated. And she chose to do exactly the opposite.

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"that woman (yoko) is evil" but john is "evil" too😭 why love one and hate the other?

I suppose you are referring to my tags in that post where there is a picture of John and Julian? That post was specifically about John reconnecting with Julian during his separation from Yoko. And as the tags said, May was actively encouraging John to build a relationship with his son while Yoko was even more actively sabotaging John's relationship with Cynthia AND Julian. This is confirmed by Cynthia in her book "John".

I'm perfectly aware of John's shortcomings both as a man and especially as a father and have written about both extensively in my posts about May's book "Loving John" and Cynthia's book "John" and also in many long answers I've written for questions people have sent me. If you are interested in reading what I have to say about him, just find those posts from my blog :)

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The superb Revolver was released 59 years ago today. No one could imagine Revolver with any other cover than Klaus Voormann's masterpiece, but this picture shows Robert "Bob" Freeman's suggestion.

Freeman had been photographing the Beatles for years and his work includes the cover of Rubber Soul. He and his wife Sonny were also close personal friends of the band and of John and Cynthia in particular. The Lennons lived above the Freeman's apartment when they first moved to London.

This turned out to be quite handy, because John kept going downstairs to shag Sonny when Bob was working elsewhere and Cyn was taking care of baby Julian. The affair went on for over a year and when it was finally revealed, it ended the Freeman marriage, the friendship and the Freeman-Beatles collaboration.

Sonny Freeman is believed to be the affair that inspired John to write Norwegian Wood

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A fab long interview of George's from 1987. He looks soooo good here. For those who are interested, the whole thing is in youtube. AND around 5:30 mark the woman journalist doing the interview starts to talk about his "fabulous fingers" and that it feels like "you can do a lot with those fingers". Like girl, whatever you do, please don't jump him in front of the cameras

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George Harrison in Help! (1965)

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Ok, what is this crappy crap now. It's the last day of my summer holiday and I don't approve. And more importantly, neither does Geege

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This was one of John's more fantastical ideas: Buying an island in Greece.

Let's imagine they actually did it. Who would have been the first one to snap and murder someone? Who would have been the first to try and sleep with someone else's wife? Well to be fair, we all know that the answers are George and George and we also know who would have been killed. But would it have been Maureen he'd try to get into bed or some surprise candidate🤔

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Julian & John Lennon Reunited in Los Angeles

Late December 1973 - Julian Lennon, age 10, was reunited with his father in Los Angeles after not seeing him in over two years. Following John’s split with Yoko his new girlfriend May Pang helped to arrange a visit for Julian and Cynthia. They flew to Los Angeles on December 26th, 1973. May Pang arranged for Julian and Cynthia to stay at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Here John and Julian with May Pang and Cynthia (from behind) in the background.

Photo published in a 1974 movie magazine. Scan from the Cynthia Powell Lennon group at Yahoo! 

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Oh Johnny💔

drew a picture of george for something :)

gee i sure hope you know what image this is considering how much ive put it on my blog

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Oh, Georgie and THE BIRD🦆❤️

drew a picture of george for something :)

gee i sure hope you know what image this is considering how much ive put it on my blog

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I saw that discussion too. Some people are just so fucking DELUSIONAL when it comes to Paul. Already in the 60s he had a house in central London full of contemporary art and antiques. He was the one bitching about Apple staff using their money (with good reason of course) and sending shitty postcards about money to their employees AND THEIR WIVES. He's currently worth over a billion and the tickets to his concerts are ridiculously expensive.

But remember: he's a saint and George was the materialistic hypocrite

I was just on reddit searching for something and i saw someone say paul was the least materialistic one out of the four….😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣

WHY are you doing this to paul😭😭😭😭

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george everytime he entered the studio in january 1969

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Regarding Yoko’s malign intentions, have you ever read anything about Sam Green’s background? There’s some seriously disturbing information there.

I had obviously heard his name but didn't really know anything about him. Your question made me do some searching which turned out to be really interesting so thank you!

The funny thing is that still don't know much about him. Internet is full of all kinds shit, but this Sam Green seems to be an elusive character. There was an article people praised on many social media platforms in New York Times when he died in 2011 ("A Collector of People" they called him) but it's behind a paywall and even my Beatles obsession will not make me give money to that paper.

There is a page about him in website called warholstars.org and I found some other stuff too after googling John's will. And oh dear.

There was some pretty disgusting speculation about Green, his one time lover Barbara Baekeland and her son Tony. But since there is no way of knowing whether that story is true, I won't repeat it here. But for anyone interested it's easy to find, just google her name. But be aware: it's disgusting.

But what seems to be true is that he was a close friend of John's and Yoko's and Yoko had an affair with him during the summer of 1980. And even though I loathe Yoko, no judgement. He and John had their own rules and John himself was never faithful to anyone, so fair game. BUT: In his will John named Sam Green to be Sean's guardian in case he and Yoko died. Pretty wild, and it also confirms what Cynthia said in her book "John": that after meeting Yoko John pretty much cut ties with his relatives (including his two half sisters) from his mother's side who had been really close and important to him before that.

Sad and, as far as it comes to Sean, very irresponsible, especially since Green himself apparently found out about this only AFTER John died. Jeez.

There was also an interesting detail in that warholstars- story. It says that when they first moved to NY, John and Yoko practically glued themselves to Warhol's side, demanding that he introduces them to all the "right" people and arranges parties for them every night. But they were not Andy's kind of people. This is straight from the article:

"After about five days of this he (Warhol) called and said: 'I just can't do it any more. They are so boring.' So I took up the cause."

And that's how they ended up with Green.

According to that article Warhol would arrange parties and then J&Y sat huddled together in some corner without speaking to anyone.

It made me giggle at first but then I remembered the young man John was before his demons really started to crush him around 67/68 and it just made me so, so sad.

There's so much to this story and so many people who all tell it differently. It's really hard to know what is true and what's just fabrication.

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Thank you @georgeharrisonsmiling , great info as always. It has always been my impression too, that Paul was pretty keen on the beatles getting back together. He just loved the band (and who can blame him for it). But since I didn't know for sure I didn't want to say anything definite.

About the Rolling Stone's "Lennon Remembers" - interview. It's absolutely unbelievable that it became "canon" for Beatles "historians", such as they were, for years even though John himself so publicly regretted it and said that he was just "letting of steam".

Jan Wenner is a clown and an embarrassing John&Yoko fan boy, so it's no wonder that he milked that interview as much as he could but the fact that Yoko allowed Wenner to republish the whole thing as book in 2000 even though she knew what John himself would have thought about is just awful. But of course it perfectly fits to everything I know about Yoko.

It’s very sad, not least because the life John had was obviously not the life he wanted. My own view is that he had realised by 1973 that he had made a big mistake. He wanted to be Beatle John again - hence, “I wish I was back with Paul”, hence the interviews hinting at Beatles reunion (which none of the others wanted - they were focused on dissolving the partnership), hence the album of songs from his youth. The problem was, the others (and especially Paul) had moved on and there was no Beatle machinery to cover up the reality of the situation - that John was a violent alcoholic who needed a handler to protect other people from him. Maybe he hoped that Paul would take on that role, as he had done previously. But Paul in 1973/74 had a young family to think of. He couldn’t be responsible for John, so it had to be Mother.

I'm not sure what John or Paul for that matter thought about a Beatles reunion in the early 70s, but I know that it would have never happened because there is absolutely no way George would have ever done it, and I'm sure at least Paul understood it.

But it's quite possible that John was regretting leaving the band so hastily. I'm very hesitant to write anything specific about his mental health since I'm not a professional and I wasn't there. But everything about his behavior in 69/70 seems somehow manic. According to Joe Flannery, their and Brian's old friend from Liverpool who according to his book spoke with John on the phone just before he was killed says that John somewhat sheepishly said that he had "made a little bit of a tit of himself" a decade earlier when he did all those bed-ins and what not with Yoko. So according to Flannery he was a bit embarrassed about his behavior during the time of the "divorce" and supposedly he also talked about returning to UK.

But yes, he needed psychiatric help. And since he didn't get any, he needed "a handler."

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Just look at our pookie, so happy and excited about the bird. This loveliest of gifs posted by @blu3jayway gave me an idea for the scene with the bird. It's on chapter two of my lennison fic In Heat, link below

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Ok, one more story about George being much better looking irl than in pictures

George Harrison at a press conference in Las Vegas, August 20, 1964. Photo by Ellen King.

The story behind the photo:

“The first thing I noticed about George was the fact that the camera just doesn’t do him justice. Don’t get me wrong, I think he’s very attractive in pictures. But he’s far cuter in person. His features are almost perfect. His hair is very, very dark and his eyes are chocolate brown. He also has beautiful black eyelashes and eyebrows. He isn’t as talkative as Ringo, but he is very sweet and friendly. I asked him to look right into [Fifteen Magazine photographer] Ellen King’s camera, and to give us his sexiest look. He thought this was very amusing, but good-naturedly did what I asked him to do.” - Ginger Sommers, Fifteen Magazine (December 1964)