…[John and Paul] are so totally in sync that they carry that through to a natural break, and you see John glancing to his side with this look of just fantastic joy, like they’ve just done something together that they never could have done on their own. - Joshua Wolf Shenk
It's suddenly The Office?
george martin sitting there not knowing what the hell george is talking about
How we could forget as a fandom about this incredible Dom!Cas moment!?
The husband and the brother are still watching for some reason...
The Beatles’ tv appearance in the Netherlands, 5th June 1964 (video here)
John shouting abuse at Paul, Paul giggling in response… sounds about right
In another life, I would have really liked just doing laundrey and taxes with you
This movie made me think Brian deserved a husband like George Martin
[John] was so excited about Yoko’s arrival that he could not stop talking and the subject on his mind was sex. He said that working always made him very “horny” and that he could not wait to “jump Mother’s bones.” He told me that when he appeared on stage with the Beatles, he would often demand that a female fan be held in the wings so that he could have a “knee-trembler” – which was Liverpool slang for quick stand-up sex – before or after the performance (or, occasionally, even between songs). “I was always obsessed with sex,” John confessed. “I’d run after girls and feel them up, put them up against a wall, that sort of thing.” He said he lost his virginity at age fifteen with his first girlfriend, Barbara Baker, a buxom, buck-toothed beauty. John then described the deflowering. “Barb wasn’t wet and I had a hell of a time shoving it in,” he said nonchalantly. “I was frantic to get inside her, and when I couldn’t, I got so frustrated and angry that I started to curse her: ‘You dumb cow, what’s wrong with you? You’re tight as a rat’s ear!’” John paused, shook his head and smiled. “It wasn’t her fault, of course. But what did I know? I was just a weird, psychotic kid covering up my insecurity with a macho façade.” Ruminating about his clumsy, often violent approach to love-making, he said that he never used to engage in foreplay; he would immediately attempt penetration. “I had no idea you were supposed to take your time,” he laughed nervously. “I thought the idea was to get in and out as quickly as possible.” He also told me that he would sometimes write his girlfriends erotic letters. “I wouldn’t be surprised if they show up one of these days, hopefully after I’m dead.” John paused briefly to sip the beer a light a fresh Gitane. “I think after my mother was killed, I felt betrayed by all womankind,” he continued. “I used to have fantasies about torturing women to death. I still have a lot of violent fantasies, but I manage to keep them under control.” He said that if he let his imagination run wild, he would imagine crucifying women, actually nailing them to a cross, and then disemboweling them. “It wasn’t until I met Yoko that I realized that men didn’t have to be aggressive, didn’t have to be macho, that men could be gentle and tender. That’s the lesson Yoko taught me.”
John Lennon: Living on Borrowed Time, Frederic Seaman (1991)
You can tell which of the Beatles wrote each song cuz it’s usually like
Paul: I love you I love you I love you I love you (watch out there is a homicidal freak in your area and he IS going to get you).
John: I hate myself and want to die but also I’m on a lot of hard drugs, so that’s cool I guess (I love you too Paul).
George: I’m spiritually enlightened and also I smoke a lot of weed.
Ringo: the ocean. Sea creatures and submarines.
The Beatles in their suite at the New York Plaza, 7th February 1964
File this under: things that remind me Ringo is the oldest
Can we talk about Your School?
Recorded in 1984, never released (except a clip on Oobu Joobu)
We're gonna talk it out someday All that is nearest and dearest I want it, you want it, they want it too And me? I want to love you Come on baby ... what have you've got Tell me that I learned a lot in your school, your school... I never thought [it meant/I'd learn] so much I'm just a poor fool in love, your school... I never felt the gentle touch until ..... I met you Oohhh you better tell me all you know Concerning this situation oohhoohooh I'd like, you'd like it, they always do... Me? I still wanna love you
I can't help but interpret this as Paul desperately wishing for a really deep and public reconciliation with John.
Two lyrics it puts me in mind of:
I never give you my number I only give you my situation And in the middle of investigation I break down
You Never Give Me Your Money
and
You must have learned something in all those years
How Do You Sleep