The One Where Paul Couldn’t Get A Word In

Photo-realistic oil paintings by Klaus Voormann, depicting the years he spent with The Beatles in Hamburg, from 1960 to 1962.

Klaus was part of a group of The Beatles’ friends in Hamburg. His “memory drawings” of our Hamburg days are not only beautiful drawings in themselves, but capture the spirit of the times.

– Paul McCartney

The Top Ten Club ‘96  |  The Beatles play the Top Ten Club with Klaus on bass.

Ringo, Keiserkeller Dressing Room ‘96  |  Backstage with Ringo and Rory Storm in the Kaiserkeller dressing room.

Paul and Rosa ‘96  |  Paul is shown receiving slimming pill amphetamines to help sustain round-the-clock performances in the Kaiserkeller.

Stu Betkante

Daybreak ‘96

Breakfast with John ‘95

Breakfast with John ‘06

At the Kirchherr’s Bathtub ‘12 

Davidwache Police Station ‘96  |  Prior to being deported, Paul McCartney spends a night in the Davidwache Police Station.

Hamburg Doorways ‘18

[I am endlessly fascinated by illustrative records made by people that were actually there. Like Paul said, these seem to capture the spirit and the ambience of the moment, with an emotional acuity that photographs normally lack, limited to an instant as they are. Klaus Voormann is a blessing in the sense that he allows us a peek behind the curtains, placing us there with him in the scene, in a way that little else can. I wanted to gather all these pieces in one place, despite having seen some of them floating around. My sincere thanks to those who brought them to my attention in the first place.]

we as a collective do Not talk enough about how crazy the lyric "I've seen religion from jesus to paul" was

1. Goodbye (Home Demo) by Lennon-McCartney // 2. Tug of War by Paul McCartney

You are all I need

fabfour on "maxwell's silver hammer", but draw as unseen ‘the beatles: get back’ interviews

this part of let it be makes me want to sell my soul to the devil to have been with them in India. What the fuck sort of meta conversation is going on between J&P

P: “It’s incredible yknow just to sort of see us. What we’re doing, it’s incredible…”

?: “What were you doing?”

J: “yes, what were we doing?”

P (stuttering, pulling his hair): “well, y— err, I don’t really know, you know, but it’s like, we totally sort of put our own personalities on there […]”

Ringo laughing, cut to John grinning

the image of paul writing here, there, and everywhere at kenwood while john is sleeping and he’s waiting for him to wake up will haunt me till the day i die. just the softest and most romantic but also bittersweet picture. john awaking from his nap to find that paul has written one of the most beautiful love songs of all time at his poolside. and it being inspired by “god only knows” by the beach boys. and john telling paul while they were shooting help that he liked it better than any of his songs on the record. and john still saying in 1980 it’s one of his favourite beatles songs. and it being paul’s favourite song he’s ever written and him always bringing up john’s fondness for it. ripping my hair out.

That’s Not Paul…

a ‘Paul is Dead’ short comic by meee

some notes under the cut

i wanna preface by saying i don’t believe in the whole theory… i just like to indulge in it in an alternate universe sort of way ( not taking it seriously lol )

i realized drawing halfway in that i drew them in the sgt. pepper’s release day outfits ( which you can see here ) so it might not be accurate in terms of ‘replacing’ Paul ☠️

the boys’ speech bubbles are the color of their sgt. pepper’s uniforms ( hopefully it’s easy to read ! )

as for how i see the whole theory: i think george is suspicious of ‘Paul’ ( Billy ) and obvious doesn’t want to call him that or accept him. John’s just happy he has ‘Paul’ back with him but does has his moments where he gets paranoid about the situation. And Ringo’s just happy to be there HELP

i might make more stuff regarding the theory in the future just cause it’s fun but we’ll seeee thank you for listening

Paul Mccartney with his cats Mary, Tiger, and Thisbe.

Thisbe had three kittens: Jesus, Mary, and Joseph (Jesus famously ran away).

Paul, Thisbe, Pyramus (who he gifted to John), and Martha in 1967.