John 😭

Really Love You

Ringo love must feel so good.

This is, by no means, original thought. However, after the release of Beatles ‘64, I just want someone to make a Beatles film that is for us. Forget the mainstream and do what Cynthia said had never happened - people getting the emotion right instead of just the facts. The Beatles story isn’t a success story, it isn’t a rags to riches story, it isn’t an even a story about genius, it’s a story that has the power to change the world and one that will be told for ever. We are living in an era where we get to witness a myth being made and so in tribute to the oral tradition, we need to be the myth-makers. Someone needs to tell the story. I hope it will be Paul. I fear it won’t. Perhaps he can’t or shouldn’t, perhaps he won’t be believed. He definitely won’t be if everyone, including him, keeps recycling the same tropes. We know there’s no new stuff to be created, but there is a new light to be shed on what we know is there. This is beginning to sound a bit like the discovery of the Book of Mormon. No one needs another religion, but we do need is for someone to actually attempt to approach this seismic cultural event with an honest and open perspective.

Yoko allowed John to believe he was the genius. John’s canonisation (his manufactured image does him no favours) means that we can forget that Paul was the revered one in the 60s. He was the chosen one - in every way. John clocked it at their very first meeting.

“I half thought to myself, He’s as good as me, I’d been kingpin up to then. Now, I thought, if I take him on, what will happen?”- John

He took a risk, he made his choice and then never again believed in his own ultimate superiority. The story he’d told himself growing up, was that nobody was capable of spotting his genius because they were all below him. Surely a trauma response to being abandoned by his parents. Never could stand to be ignored, forever desperate to be seen and yet incapable of taking off the armour of cruelty. Look at me! Paul was the same, not armour but a wall of charm. Underneath John was soft and Paul is that almost impenetrable wall. They let each other in, and each betrayed the other. Those instincts of self-preservation that John spoke about.

Anyway, he took the chance on Paul, because he wanted to be somebody and Paul and him together made that a real possibility. Also, Paul was fucking hot and clever and talented. He was also a non-conforming weirdo who made everything look effortless and wouldn’t join John’s gang and wouldn’t let him lead. I wonder if this was Paul knowing, from the first moment of seeing John as was then confirmed by subsequent sightings and (I suspect) recces, strategically carried out to observe John (oh that bus worship carries some significance beyond an appreciation for public transport), that he knew how to handle John. Handle and manage John, in order to make him his very own.

(Is it him? Does it matter, because Paul has told us he “noticed” John many times, even before the chocolate bar.)

But, all the Paul adulation, especially John’s own uncontrollable, unconditional veneration, got to be too much. He couldn’t keep his jealousy in check. No quantity of material objects, women, money, food, fame soothed the ache for long enough. He thought Yoko, and because I am sure this is what Yoko promised him, was the only person who would always be in awe of him. She wasn’t, and the really tragic part is that Paul was from the jump, he still is and his faith never waivered.

If only they’d been able to maintain the connection and never lose the ability to read each other’s minds.

They burned too brightly. They loved too hard.

Did Yoko consciously position John as abandoned by everyone, and constantly remind him of that fact (reinforced with whatever went on with Janov), in order to make herself irreplaceable as his one and only ever loyal saviour?

If she didn’t, how long before she realised the full extent of what she’d taken on?

Peak Paul behaviour, tbh

Paul McCartney talking about wanting to get arrested at the Beatles rooftop concert, The Beatles Anthology (1995)

John and Paul ❤️

In honor of 1967, here are some of Paul's favorites from the year. (worn often)

This tan grid overcoat. He wears it into 1968.

Vests grid and MMT

Pink and blue tunics.

This shirt makes it's first appearance, he wears it during get back and well into the mid 70s.

Green shirt

This fuckass scarf.

This sports(?) T-shirt. The jacket is also worn during Our world live prep.

Ancor shirt from 1966 (first pic 66). Is there a red one, or is it colorized? The colors look pretty natural if so.

Stripey blazer, also worn during Sgt. Pepper press release.

1966 tour jacket. (First pic 66) not to be confused with the similar Apple Jacket (below) which he begins wearing late in the year.

Honorable mention to this gray sweater he wears once, I like to think it's the same one from 1963.

Another thing I've noticed is that the Beatles either share clothes (All of them!! Its not mclennon uwu as some claim), or buy matching sets, which is also possible since I've seen them match.

Why?

John and Paul being protective of each other - REUPLOAD

I had to add a few things.

Sources: ULM vol. 1

Paul McCartney & John Lennon 1968 Full Interview

ULM vol 5: Never Apart pt1/2

ULM vol 5: Never Apart pt 2/2

Paul McCartney suffering from a bad stomach virus during Beatles Interview

I'm sorry but I really don't remember where I got the discussion about an old Winch :( It was somewhere on tumblr.

Thx @genderlessginger for reminding me of Paul defending John in this 1966 interview! <3

Now and Then: A McLennon Masterpost

“I could have told John to LISTEN…”

my insides are hurting

they make me so sad

how i miss them