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I've always wondered about the Key West incident. "We ended up crying – about, you know, how wonderful we were, and how much we loved each other, even though we’d never said anything". Does that we only refer to John and Paul or to the four Beatles ?

Actually, he has changed version quite a few times. But the official one is that it was just him and John, because this story comes from the song “Here Today” (song he wrote for John) and the line “What about the night we cried”:

“WE WERE IN KEY WEST IN 1964. WE WERE DUE TO FLY INTO JACKSONVILLE, IN FLORIDA, AND DO A CONCERT THERE, BUT WE’D BEEN DIVERTED BECAUSE OF A HURRICANE. WE STAYED THERE FOR A COUPLE OF DAYS, NOT KNOWING WHAT TO DO EXCEPT, LIKE, DRINK. I REMEMBER DRINKING WAY TOO MUCH, AND HAVING ONE OF THOSE TALKING-TO-THE-TOILET BOWL EVENINGS. IT WAS DURING THAT NIGHT, WHEN WE’D ALL STAYED UP WAY TOO LATE, AND WE GOT SO PISSED THAT WE ENDED UP CRYING - ABOUT, YOU KNOW, HOW WONDERFUL WE WERE, AND HOW MUCH WE LOVED EACH OTHER, EVEN THOUGH WE’D NEVER SAID ANYTHING. IT WAS A GOOD ONE: YOU NEVER SAY ANYTHING LIKE THAT. ESPECIALLY IF YOU’RE A NORTHERN MAN.“

— Paul explaining the line “What about the night we cried?” from Here Today (Source: Guardian Unlimited, 2004)

This is from an interview on Daily Mail:

“THAT WAS IN KEY WEST, WHEN A CONCERT HAD BEEN POSTPONED, BECAUSE OF A HURRICANE IN FLORIDA. AND SO WE HAD TO HIDE OUT FOR A COUPLE OF DAYS, AND ENDED UP IN THIS LITTLE HOTEL SUITE TOGETHER.‘ONE NIGHT, WE GOT PRETTY DRUNK AND ARGUED AND LAUGHED, AND IT ENDED UP US BOTH CRYING, BECAUSE IT WAS, YOU KNOW AT THE HEIGHT OF YOUR DRUNKENNESS, WHEN YOU’RE ALL, “HEY MAN, I LOVE YOU, MAN. NO, I LOVE YOU, MAN.”’‘THAT WAS PROBABLY THE ONLY TIME WE JUST GOT THAT KIND OF INTIMATE WITH EACH OTHER"

This is from an interview in 2011 with Terry Gross:

MR. MCCARTNEY: I seem to remember we had some time off in Key West, Florida, and it was because there was a hurricane, and we’d been diverted, I think, from Jacksonville.So we had to spend a night or two in Key West, is where we ended up, anyway. And at that age, with that much time on our hands, we really didn’t know what to do with it except get drunk.And so that was what we did. And we stayed up all night talking, talking, talking like it was going out of style. And at some point early in the morning, I think we must have touched on some points that were really emotional, and we ended up crying, which was very unusual for us, because we - members of a band and young guys, we didn’t do that kind of thing. So I always remembered it as a sort of important emotional landmark.GROSS: Do you remember what you were talking about that led to that?MR. MCCARTNEY: Probably our mothers dying, because John and I shared that experience. My mother died when I was about 14, and his died shortly after - about a year or so after, I think. So this was a great bond John and I always had.We both knew the pain of it, and we both knew that we had to put on a brave face because we were sort of teenage guys, and you didn’t talk about that kind of thing where we came from.

Once or maybe twice I’ve heard this story by Paul in which he has randomly added George or Ringo too. But I’m 100% sure it was just him and John. Don’t ask me why he does that, it’s the same “We loved john” story (when Paul has to say he loves John he never says “I” he always adds random people like George Harrison and says “We all loved John”)

He probably doesn’t want the scene to be too intimate, dear god he has a serious problem with showing affection toward John in public.

to be clear the first one is the original. i just riffed on it because it’s a powerful message.

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Every time I see someone try to say John’s ‘more feminine features’ came out in the 70s, I want to bloody scream.

I would really like to know what people you see every day that has convinced you that a underfed, heroin riddled skeletal frame is what counts as ‘feminine features’. 

The man was bulimic, lived off of heroin and was depressed as all fuck… but okay, sure, keep telling yourselves that’s ‘his natural feminine features’.

Just kindly never talk to me.

I just realized why this further annoys me, literally just…

When shit like this happens in the modeling industry it’s ‘horrifying’ and ‘needs to stop’.

Happens to a man in an emotionally and mentally abusive relationship?

Suddenly it’s ‘attractive’ and ‘his feminine features coming out’. 

John Lennon was not healthy in the 70s. At all. Physically, emotionally or mentally. Gushing and cooing over it, in any way, is disturbing. 

Physical ‘features’ that come out as result of self-starvation, drug and alcohol abuse, depression and deteriorating relationships/being in an abusive relationship are not attractive. They are symptoms and silent cries for help.

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