It’s just about a gang of weirdos who love each other singing from the literal rooftops and, for a few minutes, bringing colour to a grey city. It’s about how all good things must come to an end but by simply happening they’re still significant. It’s about the constant battle between art/people/LOVE against forces that want them to conform. It’s about how friendship can literally change the world. It’s about hope. It’s about the power of dreaming. It’s cold and their fingers are going numb and the uniformed police officers, ever-present in the background, are making them unplug their instruments. But they just plug them back in!!! Maybe they can’t finish the concert but they’re finishing the song if it’s the last thing they do and they’ll even crack some jokes while they’re at it. Poetic cinema…
like have you ever seen john lennon and richard iii in the same room
Some things never change
Paul McCartney and his daughter Heather recorded a punk song together, where Heather reads the label of a baby formula can.
Why the Beatles and Paul McCartney are trending now? What I missed?
The Beatles recording session mistakes are pure gold and here are some of the best moments:
0:06: JOHN: That’s not it!!
0:57-onwards: *weird noises*
1:35: PAUL: And if you saw my love, I’d love her… *pfffff*
2:01: JOHN: There’s nothing you can do that can’t be done PAUL: I believe you, Johnny! JOHN: There’s nothing you can sing that can’t be sung. PAUL: There sure is! *continues random ‘Johnny’, ‘you’re right, boy!’*
2:20: JOHN: I’m ready to sing for the world, George. If you just give me the backing!
3:41: *loud guitars* JOHN: Little less of George! It feels I’m singing in a sock.
4:22: “RINGO!!”
4:36: PAUL: We’ll do it anyway, We’ll just blast that bit, that one bit.
5:47: JOHN: Don’t slow down, for Christ’s sake. Or I’m giving you no more drugs!
6:22: JOHN: I just can’t get anywhere near ‘light’ now.
6:34: PAUL: I’ll try to remember, John. And if I don’t it’s just too bad, isn’t it?
6:50: PAUL: George, what did it sound like? Were the bass doing a funny thing, did it sound any good or did it sound like just utterly crap? [..] I did it well, see. Told you! Meh, hello to you and see how you like it.
…and my personal favorite:
3:59: PAUL: Do that again. [to George:] You made a mistake. I KNOW YOU DID! GEORGE: No. *mumbling and grumbling*
Part who-even-fucking-knows anymore of John having a very pleasant face + a complementary GIF that is second on my list of favourites of him and his lovely nose and eyes and hair and mouth and I’m gonna stop before I get in trouble but you should all know where I’m heading with this.
There's only one true cast to play The Beatles
I swear last post, but I had to post that!
Paul McCartney in Beatles '64 (2024)
January 26th, 1969 (Apple Studios, London): As the Beatles work on the arrangement for Octopus’s Garden’, Ringo tells Paul about the basis for the song, piquing George’s memory of what he was once told about octopuses. (Note: John’s on drums. This clip from the sessions is shortly followed by Heather sharing her personal octopus anecdote with John - which I can’t make out, unfortunately - and more animal banter.)
GEORGE: Hey, it was somebody – he was telling me octopuses go and pick up all the seashells. You know about that?
RINGO: Yes, that’s why I wrote it! ‘Cause the guides told me [about them] on the boat in Sardinia. [inaudible]
GEORGE: Yeah. [to Paul] You know about that? They collect all nice-looking things and make a garden around where they are and just with all their groovy things to sleep behind.
RINGO: Yeah.
GEORGE: [laughs] It’s great.
The Beatles on The Morecambe And Wise Show. Filmed 2nd December 1963, aired 18th April 1964 (part 1, 2, 3)
One of them says, “It’s nice out, isn’t it?”
So the other one says, “Yes, I’ll take mine out too”