Stuart was going to stay in Hamburg, cos he’d fallen in love with this girl Astrid [Kirchherr], who was part of a little set who called themselves the Exi’s, existentialists. They were very cool in black, tight trousers, little high-heeled boots. She was blonde, she had a short Peter Pan pageboy haircut, she looked dead cool. We’d never seen a chick like it. She dressed like a boy, a very slim little boy, so it was all, Fuckin’ hell, look at her! I think we all fancied her but she fancied Stuart, who’d been the one guy who’d never been able to pull anything in our band. We’d always pulled before old Stu, but he got these great shades and struck a James Dean pose, got his hair going groovy like James Dean, so she went mad for him. And their group used to really like Stuart. I think it went: Stuart, John, George, me, Pete Best. That was their order of preference. They took some great photos of us.
- Paul McCartney interview in Paul Du Noyer, Conversations with McCartney (2015) pp.34-35
society has forgotten just how hot paul was in his 20s. if i was john i would have a hard on at all times
what if I just jump off a bridge
We hear ad nauseam about Paul and George’s “fight” during Let It Be/Get Back but nowhere near enough about their beautiful tender exchanges like this one:
G: They sell boots that high, but not that tight, and not particularly leather, maybe softer. Groovy ones like, you know those Afghan coats, they’re embroidered, I’ve got boots like that, but the slippers, the slippers feel at home. And it is great, you just tuck your pants in.
P: You want boots of those? Yeah, I’ve got boots of them.
G: You know where you get them?
P: Yeah, you get them off me (gentle laughter).
I’ll give you them, I’ll never wear them.
G: Do you want to hear the song I wrote last night?
It’s just a very short one, called I Me Mine.
P: Yes
“I was pretty lucky on the LSD front, in that it didn’t screw things up too badly. There was a scary element to it, of course. The really scary element was that when you wanted it to stop, it wouldn’t. You’d say, ‘Okay, that’s enough, party’s over,’ and it would say, ‘No it isn’t.’ So you would have to go to bed seeing things.
Around that time, when I closed my eyes, instead of there being blackness there was a little blue hole. It was as if something needed patching. I always had the feeling that if I could go up to it and look through, there would be an answer. Now, I could go on about how the wordplay in Bing Crosby’s song ‘Please’ – ‘Oh, Please / Lend your little ear to my pleas’ – might be informing the wordplay in ‘And it really doesn’t matter if I’m wrong I’m right / Where I belong’. The fact is that the most important influence here was not even the metaphysical idea of a hole, which I mentioned earlier, but this absolutely physical phenomenon – something that first appeared after I took acid. I still see it occasionally, and I know exactly what it is. I know exactly what size it is.”
— Paul McCartney on “Fixing a Hole”, The Lyrics
John Lennon be like “I know you guys need money from our shows but I’m gonna cancel them for like two weeks anyways and run away with my boy bestie through Paris where we’re gonna share a single sized bed, get matching haircuts, and I’m gonna “let him have all the banana milkshakes he wants” if you catch my drift, haha. see ya!”
I think about this interview frequently.
military yaoi
x
BEATLES FANS OF TUMBLR (SPECIFICALLY MCLENNON FANS), I NEED YOUR HELP TO FIND A PHOTO OF THE BEATLES WHERE PAUL IS IN A CAR, HAS HIS HAND ON THE WINDOW, JOHN IS OUTSIDE OF THE CAR LOOKING AT PAUL, AND HIS HAND IS ALSO ON THE WINDOW. PLEEAASEE TAG ME IN THE PHOTO OR SUM 😭😭😭🙏🙏