allen klein is the donald trump of the beatles story. in this essay i will
[August 1, 1965]
When Sherry Johnson was eleven, she found one day that she’s gonna marry a 20-year-old member of her church who had raped her. She became pregnant and in order to avoid investigation and criminal case, her family and church officials decided to make the girl a legal wife of this monster.
“My mom asked me if I wanted to get married, and I said, ‘I don’t know, what is marriage, how do I act like a wife?’” Johnson remembers today, many years later. “She said, ‘Well, I guess you’re just going to get married.’”
Johnson and her family also attended a conservative Pentecostal church and that other girls of a similar age periodically also married. One girl said when she was 10 she was raped by both a minister and a parishioner and later gave birth to a daughter. There were all documents confirming her and her child’s age, but still, the judge approved the marriage to end the rape investigation, telling her, “What we want is for you to get married.”
And nevertheless, America prefers to interfere in other countries’ internal affairs, like in Syria, calling it “defending freedom” rather than to change states’ laws and to protect American children from rape, coercion and molestation.
Today, Johnson is campaigning for a state law to stop underage marriage that has already become a norm in some states.
this is possibly my favourite scene from a hard days night. john playing around in the bath is what i live for
let’s not glorify &/or stay silent about the beatlemaniacs in the 1960s that stalked the beatles, clawed at/got grabby with them when they walked by, physically harmed any of their wives out of petty jealousy, broke security rules to see/touch them, etc.
it’s not a testiment to how great the band was; it’s a testiment to how harmful fandom culture can be to celebrities. it doesn’t matter how much they “loved” the beatles; it’s not an excuse to harass people.
me: *dedicates life to a band*
me: *has fan account*
me: *knows everything about them*
me: *skips their songs on shuffle*
in a heartbeat au
[PAUL: It’s like… we have to get back, we’re on our way home.
JOHN: Yeah.
PAUL: There’s a story…there’s another one “don’t let me down” “Oh!darling, I’ll never let you down” Like we’re…..
JOHN: It’s like we’re lovers
PAUL: Yeah
JOHN: we’ll just have to camp it up for those two]
1. Paul admitting that ‘two of us’ ‘don’t let me down’ and ‘oh darling’ is about them.
2. John confirming it and adding how the songs make them look like lovers.
OH!DARLING
TWO OF US
DON’T LET ME DOWN
CONFIRMED MCLENNON SONGS BY JOHN LENNON AND PAUL MCCARTNEY
GOODNIGHT
your relationship doesn’t have to be toxic to be a bad one. it can be unfulfilling, exhausting, loveless. and someone doesn’t have to be terrible to you for you to leave them. if you aren’t primarily happy in your relationship, you have a valid reason to not be in it. don’t beat yourself up because your situation “could be worse.” if it isn’t what you want, you don’t have to stay in it.