Paul And His Vest 🥰

Yoko Ono and John Lennon photographed by David Bailey, 1971.

December 16, 1974. An extract from John Lennon’s interview with Jim Hartz on the Today Show, NBC Television Network, NYC. Sounding generally positive towards the possibility of working again with his former bandmates, John tries to answer a question about his “celebrated” feud with Paul McCartney. (source)

“If I get… married, divorced [pause] it’s celebrated. So The Beatles had a divorce and Paul and I were always, sort of, the out front ones… and so our “celebrated” feud. You know, Lennon/McCartney was… that was… we wrote the songs… and it was bigger. And I think we were…  I put it down now to probably –  we all – actually we were all probably very nervous about suddenly being on our own, although we all really wanted to get away from each other for a bit after living in a room together for ten years.”

(I added subtitles, though I may have missed a couple of words. Enjoy.) 

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I am NOT okay :))))

such a small syntax thing but paul writing ‘john and i and yoko’ in this bit of the lyrics is soooo telling and crazy. even though grammatically it should be ‘john and yoko and i’ he still can’t bear to separate himself and john/give yoko credit before himself/see john and yoko as an entity. he’s literally putting himself in between the two of them, whether consciously or not.

They look like frightened huddled little marmosets confronted by a massive heron

Now And Then: The Last Beatles Song (Short Film), 2023

Paul and George

Photo by Ringo Starr: “I knew it would happen one day and it looks like it did. Paul’s finally gone off his head. A real nut!”

Scanned by Doug Pratt from Ringo’s Photo Album magazine (1964). Posted here with his kind permission.

John Lennon & George Harrison at the Futurist Theatre in Scarborough, England | 11 December 1963 © John Varley

The Beatles jamming during the Rooftop Concert (1969)