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MY TOP 10 FAVORITE ANSWERS FROM PAUL IN TODAYS TWITTER Q&A - This man will be the death of me, I swear.
Paul McCartney signing autographs for a fan in a Liverpool bookshop, February 1963.
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I was listing Married Life from UP and I just felt … soft. I think this is like a little AU? One where John didn’t die, he divorced Yoko, used his time to rebuild his relationship with Julian, and when Linda passed away, he supported Paul and moved to his house, and soon they married. i just…cried when I was drawing this.
“I told John to close his eyes because I could feel this tension between him and Paul. I did them (together) afterwards; I got them looking different ways because there was such a tension.”
ㅡ David Bailey about John Lennon and Paul McCartney photoshoot in 1965
John Lennon at manager Brian Epstein's west London home for a photocall for the launch of The Beatles' new album Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | 19 May 1967
“I will tell you my first and my last memories of The Beatles.”
“The last was in 1967. Brian Epstein had hired me to shoot some record sleeves. It all happened in February during the recording of Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. I had to build a photo studio inside the Abbey Road studio building, in a room next to their recording studio. I stayed there for one week. They needed group pictures of the four, so I had to wait a long time since it seemed there was always one of them hanging around somewhere – talking to the angels!”
— French photographer Jean-Marie Perier.
John Lennon in A Hard Day’s Night (1964)
eras that have irreparably damaged my psyche:
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old man john
Paul wasn’t planning to write about Liverpool – until he heard “Strawberry Fields” and it lit up his competitive edge. These memories were something he and his dearest friend still shared – Paul remembered Strawberry Field, and he knew John well enough to know what it meant to him. But he also knew what Penny Lane meant to John – that was the street where he lived with his mother, Julia, before she left him. Strawberry Field was down the road from his Auntie’s house; the place he’d go to contemplate his exile from the home he’d known on Penny Lane. These twin songs went together as a concept single. “Strawberry Fields” and “Penny Lane” are their most famous combo, linked together forever though it’s been decades since they’ve existed in that form. They play off each other as a John/Paul dialogue. While Paul does his people-watching on Penny Lane, John is a mile away, hiding in the tall grass of Strawberry Field. – Rob Sheffield, Dreaming the Beatles