Flytotheway - All Those Years Ago

Just what is with the tension between John and Paul at the Plaza?

Paul not making eye contact with John as he walks past

John whistling in response because he, as we all know, doesn't care

George and Ringo's smiles immediately dropping when they see John come over

John barely able to raise a smile at Ringo's joke

What is going on?!

Weird behaviour between John Lennon and Paul McCartney at the Plaza Hotel, New York, February 1964 - part two (part one)

This is the take of (Just Like) Starting Over that includes the line

"the time has come the walrus said for you and me to stay bed again"

I have read about this take before, but the links to it are always dead. So I was super excited to find it.

I've decided not to credit my source for the sake of their privacy, but I hope they know I'm very grateful.

Full lyrics (my transcription):

Take 3

Our life together Is so precious together We have grown We have grown

Although our love is still special Let's take a chance and go away Somewhere alone

It's been too long since we took the time No one's to blame I know time flies So quickly

But when I see you darling It's like we both are falling in love again It'll be just like starting over Starting over

Everyday we used to make it, loveSo why can't we be making love It's easy

The time has come the walrus said For you and me to stay in bed again It'll be just like starting over Starting over

Why don't we fly off alone Spend a weekend at some old motel A little place without a phone A second honeymoon would do us well

Well well well well well

It's been so long to take the time No one's to blame I know time flies So quickly

But when I see you darling It's like we both are falling in love again It'll be just like starting over Starting over

Our life together Is so precious together We have grown We have grown

Although our love is still special Let's take a chance and go away Somewhere alone

Why don't we fly off alone A dirty weekend in some low motel A little place little place without a phone A second honeymoon would suit us well

Well well well darling

Ever think we used to make it love Why can't we be making love It's easy

The time has come the walrus said For you and me to stay in bed again It'll be just like starting over Starting over

Let's take a chance and go away Somewhere alone

Upon finding out that all four Beatles had naturally curly hair. here is my favorite naturally curly hair photo of each boy. Feel free to reblog with your favorite

George Harrison

I believe this is the only photo of George with his naturally curly hair.

Ringo

Paul

And of course, John is

None of them had super tight curls, but all the boys had natural curls, and I love that for them

Today in McLennon… Quotes where they are compared to famous love affairs

“John and Paul are essentially a legendary world-changing love affair that ends in heartbreak — like Burton and Taylor, but with no touching. They are the thing the other was looking for. A major part of their lives was settled the day they met at Woolton fair — they were completed, reborn and undone with each other.”  (Caitlin Moran)

“Out of the mouth of anyone else, “John” is just a name, a mere monosyllable. But when the name is uttered by McCartney, the ghostlike presence of John Lennon suddenly descends on the evening. Lennon’s name, so simply invoked by McCartney, takes on the power of a talisman, conjuring up an entire shared cultural scrapbook of images defining musical collaboration and the purest of camaraderie. McCartney owns the pronunciation of “John” the way Katharine Hepburn made “Spensah” Tracy her own.” (Interview with Paul McCartney, 2001)

like have you ever seen john lennon and richard iii in the same room

Those boys who are wearing their hair long are saying no to the masculine mystique. They are saying no to that brutal, sadistic, tight-lipped, crew-cut, you know, Prussian… big-muscle, you know, Ernest Hemingway… kill bears when there are no bears to kill and napalm all the children in Vietnam and Cambodia to prove that I’m a man, you know and be dominant and superior to everyone concerned and never show any softness. Well, these boys that are wearing their hair long are saying, ‘No… I don’t have to be all that crew-cut and tight-lipped, I don’t have to be dominant and superior to anyone, I don’t have to have big muscles because there aren’t any bears to kill. I don’t have to, you know, kill anybody to prove anything. I can be tender, and I can be sensitive, and I can be compassionate… and I can admit sometimes that I’m afraid, and I can even cry, and I am a man… and I am my own man’. And that man, who is strong enough to be gentle… that is a new man.

Feminist pioneer Betty Friedan talking about The Beatles in 1964, a year after publishing her book The Feminine Mystique. Featured in Beatles ‘64

George, Paul, and John with kisses (1965)

Now and theeeennn……..

First at all I apoligize for my grammatical mistakes, I'm not a native speaker and surely I am not fluent. Anyway today I rewatched Elliot Roberst's video on Now and Then and guys if before with his video on Get Back while he was commenting the infamous flirting moment between John an Paul as "This moment is very revealing...just perfect" on Now and Then he mentions clearly mclennon and in the end says "They’re letting us know that someday down the long and winding road across the universe, they will return to each other.”

I love this man aside from being a very good content creator he is such a fan

In conclusion his video as taken me to another content creator of my country, and the most interesting thing is the comment

He talks about the tape of Now and Then and the idea who was written for Paul: he says "è una cosa tanto romantica" it's such a romantic thing. My mind in the moment was blowing what a coincidence but for being clear he doesn't believe it because there a no clearly proofs, Yoko could have written that for organize the tapes why John should have written for Paul he didn't know he would have died... a very rational reasoning you can agree or disagree but it's not the point of my post

Te point is that I am always more convinced that even hetero men beatles's fans secretely HOPE John and Paul were a thing

The Beatles and Joan Baez backstage, Candlestick Park, San Francisco, August 1966.