Joni mitchell let the wind carry me is such an insane song cause she hits you with "yeah my mom! Doesn't like when i wear makeup/revealing clothes/stay out late dancing with strange men but my dad! Says to leave me alone cause dressed like this i look like a beauty queen frim a movie!" And then goes on a long ass instrumental break to really let you think on that one and the next time she speaks it's to tell you that her mom blames herself for spoiling her daughter rotten while her dad just blesses her, confident that he's liberated her. Oh ok.

Domestic Paul appreciation post.

If you’re lucky enough, he’ll feed you some toast or cook you some potatoes and a steak. But you’d have to be John Lennon…

What if instead 4 biopics about each individual beatle, the four movies are all the same film edited from straightest to gayest.

My grandfather was a mclennon truther from the 60s until the day he died you are not of the same caliber

Every reference to John Lennon featured in the alternate music video for "This One"

"This One", is a 1989 Paul McCartney single featuring Paul singing about what he claims to be "George Harrison's" missed opportunity to tell John Lennon that he loved him. (when obviously it's Paul projecting onto Harrison, judging by the lyrics, and the way he handled it in this interview).

The song has two music videos. The first one (and most prevalent music video) was heavily inspired by The Beatles trip to india. The second music video, is extremely psychedelic (possibly in reference to the acid trips McCartney and Lennon shared) within it are many intricate references to Lennon featured in the scenes of the music video.

The first two references (White feathers, and a feathered hat), are featured between the timestamps 0:30 - 0:38

The music video opens with McCartney sitting at a desk, surrounded by white feathers, before everything fades to black and all that's visible is one singular white feather.

Julian Lennon recounted Lennon saying that if he were to pass away, his spirit would take the form of a White Feather:

The white feather then transitions into a pale blue feather sitting atop a hat:

I assume this hat was meant to reference Lennon's Feathered Hat that he wore in the 1967 Magical Mystery tour film:

Reference Three: McCartney illuminating along with the Moon throughout the timestamps 1:40 - 1:46

McCartney is "juggling" the Moon as it passes through its moon cycles, the Moon is illuminating very brightly, along with a glowing blue outline of McCartney. This alignment may be a reference to the lyrics in the 1970 Lennon song "Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)", where Lennon says: "we all shine on just like the moon and the sun"

Reference Four: A green apple seen throughout the timestamps 1:47 - 1:50

McCartney lip syncs to the camera, yet stops when he notices a bright green apple floating away. The green apple references Apple Corps (a company founded by the Beatles, however McCartney and Lennon played the most significant role in its creation). In some way, the apple represents McCartney and Lennon's relationship; Paul doesn't notice it fading away, until it's too late, and once he does notice it, it's too far up to retrieve and it becomes permanently lost.

Reference Five: John Lennon's Glasses, and him in Heaven featured throughout the timestamps 2:22 - 2:25

McCartney is seen wearing circular glasses with pink lenses a-like to Lennon's renowned circular glasses with yellow lenses. However, he can also be seen wearing pink lenses too:

Though, it's unlikely that this choice of switching Lennon's yellow lenses to pink ones was intentional, as I recall hearing that this music video was filmed in a barn, and therefore they were short of props and had to replace Lennon's yellow lenses with pink ones.

A few seconds after McCartney makes this appearance, a halo spawns atop of his head. It almost seems as though McCartney is "cosplaying" Lennon, and the Halo represents him having passed away, as John now remains an angel in heaven.

Reference Six: The closing scene: 3:51 - 4:27

Near the end of the music video, Linda and Paul sit beneath a tall tree, pointing at its branches. There are two references to Lennon in this scene, the first one being another sighting of a White Feather mentioned earlier (representing John's spirit), falling from the tree.

The camera then zooms out, and we get a clearer look at the tree that Linda and Paul are sitting under.

I'm unsure if this was meant to be a reference, or if it was solely coincidental. But in the comments of the music video, someone claimed that the tree looked like the one from the Strawberry Fields Forever music video:

References to Paul grieving John:

There is this very short part of the music video throughout the timestamps 0:32-0:36, where McCartney has his head down and you can see a shimmering tear fall from his face, and splash into a small pond. There are also many references to doves throughout the music video, which are considered a symbol of the "peaceful journey after death"

I'd also like some help uncovering this freeze-frame, as I have no idea what it means:

I doubt it was just added for no reason. It says "Ocean", yet there wasn't much I could find about Lennon and any correlation he might have with the word "Ocean". Maybe it's about someone else, or maybe I am missing something.

Is "Call me Back Again" by Paul McCartney about John Lennon?

During one Wings live performance's at The Rock Show Wings Over America Tour, in 1976, the band was playing the song "Call me Back Again", and during the performance, McCartney changes the lyrics to the chorus. As what was meant to be "I've called your name, every night since then", was changed to "I've called your name, John, every night since then".

McCartney has made this change of saying "John" not once, but twice (he does it at the Myer Music Bowl, in Melbourne 1975, and he did it again during The Rock Show Wings Over America Tour, in LA 1976). This lyric change is solely featured of live performances of the song, and cannot be found on any official releases.

Him including "John" in the lyrics isn't the sole reason why this song might be about John; The song takes place during McCartney's teenage years (implied from the lyrics; "I was just a little baby boy"), and he talks about conversing with someone on the phone almost every night of his youth. One of the closest people to McCartney during this time would've been John, so he is the only person I could imagine to have been speaking with on a daily basis via telephone or even just conversing in real life.

Now the part that confuses me is when McCartney brings up John "not calling him back", and the lyrics "I've heard your name every night since then", which leads me to think that the song is shifting from McCartney's youth to the moment in which the Beatles had broken up and it's aftermath. "I've heard your name every night since then" can be a reference to the interviews in which Paul was being asked if he and the other three Beatles (or maybe just John) might reunite. Paul's response to that being that John won't respond back to Paul about the offer.

Vincent Benitez (a music theorist) took on this perspective of the song as well, saying: “An Intimate Portrait intersperses a performance of Call Me Back Again with McCartney’s explanation of a short poem he had written at the time about his feelings about the possibility of a Beatles reunion”.

The demo of the song features different lyrics to the official release. Said lyrics being: "Call me back again, Only it's for one time, Come on Call me Back Again".

The demo also includes a lot more of a melancholic and feeling of longing to it, unlike the official release which is very upbeat and jazz-like. I can't think of anyone/anything McCartney would have such a longing for except for John and the relationship they had either in their teenage-hood or their time in the Beatles.

Also: in "Call me back again" video features a pair of men hugging:

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Okay lets go try

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The first time I ever saw The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan was not the first time it was aired bc I was barely a toddler, but a year or two later, as a re-run. Because my family had already seen it, they knew what a big deal it was, so when The Beatles came on after the commercial, I remember everyone running to the TV set from every corner of the house, grabbing me on the way (don’t remember who), shouting,  ”THEY’RE ON! THEY’RE ON! HURRY UP!!” Everyone from my mother, to my grandmother, to my great-grandmother, RAN to the living room so they wouldn’t miss a second of it. Everyone was so excited to see them again, they couldn’t even sit down. It was that big.

My Beatles Biopic actor suggestions:

John Lennon- Chris Fleming, because FUCKING GENDER GOALS

Paul McCartney- Clara Bow, because FUCKING DIVA

George Harrison- Rasputin, because FUCK EVERYTHING & THEIR WIVES

Ringo Starr-This 'My Little Pony', because FUCK the Haterz

I suddenly started to think John Is answering the I love yous in Silly Love Songs with his I love yous in Woman and now Im getting too emotional

please please please don't prove I'm right about this movie

Now and Then handwritten lyrics

that last part (never included in the demo)

"Remember when

we thought our life had ended

the gods had been offended

then we started again as friends

now we start again as friends

somehow we start again as friends"

(the doodle) (the phone number)

I reaally hate them cause every scenario works with them every single one just FEELS RIGHT. lovers from day one, pining forever, frenemies to enemies, soulmates who share different forms of cruelty, suddenly in love, hurt comfort pals, endless phonecalls, aaaa

From Imagine I'm In Love With You to It's like you and and me are lovers

I like the theory that the whole thing with John and Paul was in the end a songwriting game that went out of hand.

The idea that at first they were "pretending" to sing to each other, constructing the other as the object of love (and each of themselves as the lover), because that felt exhilarating and new and IT WORKED. The songs flew like an endless river, and the entire world was buying that tale. And they were above everything, the smartest kids in the music bussiness. Nobody could ever grasp the hidden meaning, but it was okey because it was just a game.

Of course, Im not saying it was something they talked about, or was verbally planned (maybe not in the actual terms), not even close, but they were AWARE of it. That's key. John would never named who he might be singing about, but he probably would have felt miserable after a particularly vulnerable song (but not "really" right?), and then Paul would have rushed to sing an answer, expressing in that act that the message had reached its "imaginary" recipient, the game is on.

But at one elusive moment, sooner or later, some kind of realizaton happens. Is it in Key West, is it in Cavendish that summer of 67, is in India, who knows when a mystery begins. But if you've been building this imaginary relationship for years, and you mix it with drugs and fame and competition, and actual real feelings, the mess happens. Is it mutual? Maybe the other doesnt believes you? Maybe he thinks its all part of the same game? Maybe you are imagining things that are not there?

Perhaps what they need is to get the game out into the open. They need to really see each other for wath they are. And they need to put the thing in actual words, no songs. But everything feels part of the same performance.

And the game is never over, and the feelings are still there. And now it has no resolution. Because everytime one sings to the other i love you or come back, its impossible to know if its real. And if they bring it to reality, the very successful game may collapse. And is painful if its real love, and is painful if its only a dream.

I guess I wanted to think about this after listening too many early beatle songs, and with that little scene in get back always present. From there to this point, somehow they managed to make a full circle, even if it never brought them a satisfactory (happy?) ending. But the tale is immaculate, perfect, new.

Also, this ineffable topic was discussed in much better terms by others in the fandom (@thecoleopterawithana, @amoralto) so I advice to explore their tags.