I’m holding out very little hope that the movies will actually be any good so I’m just praying they don’t have any actual misinformation/play into old false narratives that’ll make a new generation of people misunderstand the Beatles. That is probably also too much to ask
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Four of the current teenage idols, Paul, George, Ringo and John - better known as the BEATLES - are causing a riot in the LADIES’ world of hairdressing. At least their fans are. Every day in Scotland more and more teenagers are walking into hairdressing salons and asking to have shoulder-length locks cropped into a short jagged pudding-bowl cut. And the Beatle-boys reckon that the Beatle-girls are paying them the greatest compliment ever. They calmly accepted it when boys copied their eye-tickler hair style. Now that girls are coming in on the act, John Lennon, one of the popular group who took Glasgow by storm on a visit last year, says: “Now we’re even influencing girls’ fashions - TERRIFIC.” But many hair stylists are not happy… One said: “This is a shocking style for girls. It’s too short, too unruly and too boyish to be attractive. Several girls have asked for it on impulse and then regretted it.” Another said: “I try to persuade the girl and if that doesn’t work I give her an adaption. I make it slightly longer and smoother than the Beatles have it. To have the original a girl would have to be very beautiful. The style is very severe.” Blonde Roweanne Bailie can understand why a girl has her hair cut like a man’s. Roweanne, from Garnethill, Glasgow, said: “I think the boys are marvellous. Some girls copy Brigitte Bardot, I copy the Beatles.” Another fan with a Beatle haircut is Jacqueline Archibald, a Glasgow theatre usherette. “Lots of my friends are having their hair cut like the Beatles.” She says, “It’s definitely all the rage.” The title of the Beatles latest release? “She Loves You.”
Give the girls their Beatles haircuts, you cowards! From the Daily Record, 16th August 1963.
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what if we entangled our financials and made our creative partnership into a pseudo-marriage and then got real-married to our actual girlfriends within a week of each other while we were going through the nastiest pseudo-divorce (which, because of how legally entwined we are, is worse than an actual real-divorce) in history
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you know how being songwriting partners is like marriage and songwriting is like sex and making an album is like being pregnant and songs are like your children. i don't even have anything to add to this it's just like. ok! yeah! what more can any of us do with this? you said it, man. sure!
People were reblogging this like it applies to other people. No, listen. This is about a specific guy. One guy in particular said all of this. This isn’t me romanticising music - Paul McCartney is mpreging himself with songs. He literally said this. He songwriting married John Lennon and then they had songwriting sex together in John’s attic which Paul called “Daddy’s Room.” Do you understand? I am barely even paraphrasing the words that came out of his mouth. This isn’t about the art of creation, it’s about inventing a pseudo-marriage with your best friend when you are 15 because it’s the 1950s and you’re repressed and British and they haven’t invented bisexuality yet and this is the only way you can have sex with him and have his babies, and then you spend the rest of your life Saying Things instead of admitting you think your friend’s hands are sexy and you want to suck his fingers. But you do still call his hands beautiful. You say this with words that are in the bible. And by you I mean just this one (1) guy (Paul McCartney) who did in fact say this about the guy he wrote songs with (John Lennon). It was a specific instance of these words coming into existence from the vocal cords of Sir Paul McCartney. No one else said all of this.
much attention has been paid, deservedly so, to coming up live for the pretty baby of it all but im personally obsessed with the lyric change from “i know that we can get together/we can make it, stick with me” to “i know if we could get together/we’d hear music endlessly.” it’s a little heartbreaking and a little adorable bc here’s paul in 1979 knowing john isn’t writing and pleading to him to let him help and then the studio version of that very song ends up inspiring john’s return to music
#mclennon#paul mccartney#john lennon#coming up#ive been so fascinated by 1979/1980 mclennon lately#and of course these lines follow the “you want some peace and understanding” line#not subtle man#would have been super cool if they could’ve had this conversation by actually speaking to each other but whatever
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you know how being songwriting partners is like marriage and songwriting is like sex and making an album is like being pregnant and songs are like your children. i don't even have anything to add to this it's just like. ok! yeah! what more can any of us do with this? you said it, man. sure!
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too many people IS so much meaner than how do you sleep in hindsight bc hdys is just a group project of “let’s write the most clever rhyming couplets we can about how paul sucks” but too many people is paul smiling as he leans in to whisper into john’s ear that “you may think you’re hot shit now but i’m going to come out of this so much happier and more successful than you will ever be and you will wake up to realize you ruined your own life.” and wouldn’t you know that’s exactly what happened. can’t you just imagine that song haunting john as he sat in the dakota during the late 70s, cursing his writer’s block and deciding to throw paul with his guitar out of the house rather than concede that he had been right?
ok feeling the need to clarify a little bit here bc i had the thought and posted it without really thinking it through. i meant to define "meaner' less on impact and more on intent, and while of course john very much intended to be very mean, the result itself is, by his own admission, a lot of projection. luckily for john, paul cared about his opinion on his music more than anyone else's. i say luckily because im not entirely sure to what degree john really knew his own strength when it came to hurting paul. i very much could be wrong on that, and it is pretty clear that it did hurt paul for a long, long time, seemingly to this day. but as an outsider doing textual analysis, not only john did walk it back (and then walked it forward again when his own career wasn't doing well comparatively), but paul mccartney the musician has been pretty well vindicated by time and we live in a world where ram is credited for being ahead of its time instead of panned as a confusing mess. but who knows yoko, maybe john wouldve proven paul wrong in the 80s.
tl;dr: to me hdys reads like an explosion of uncontrolled anger that hit paul hard because he was standing right next to it while too many people is a blade to the throat.
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paul, on "percy thrillington", the fictional character he tried to convince everyone wrote the orchestral version of ram
too many people IS so much meaner than how do you sleep in hindsight bc hdys is just a group project of “let’s write the most clever rhyming couplets we can about how paul sucks” but too many people is paul smiling as he leans in to whisper into john’s ear that “you may think you’re hot shit now but i’m going to come out of this so much happier and more successful than you will ever be and you will wake up to realize you ruined your own life.” and wouldn’t you know that’s exactly what happened. can’t you just imagine that song haunting john as he sat in the dakota during the late 70s, cursing his writer’s block and deciding to throw paul with his guitar out of the house rather than concede that he had been right?
#i don’t mean to downplay the happiness john got from his relationship with sean but it’s well documented how depressed he was in that era#meanwhile paul’s on tour every five seconds screaming out thinly veiled songs about how much he misses him#pride can hurt you too#paul mccartney#john lennon#too many people#how do you sleep#not really a#mclennon#post but I’m tagging it anyway