When The Beatles Were Told To Help Decorate The Casbah Club, Owned By Mona Best (Pete Best’s Mother),

John smiling at Paul like this will sustain me for 100 years and I hope it sustains Paul too

I wanted to know what Paul's looking so lovingly at on the back of their cover so I recreated his hand placement and this is approximately where his left hand is pointing at.

Here is a clean copy for my John girlies:

Here’s the Let it Be excerpt spliced with the Get back scene. (Basically I synched the original audio with Peter Jackson’s restored film) see this post for more

August, 1980: John talks to Playboy writer David Sheff about ‘If I Fell’.

JOHN: That’s my first attempt at a – at a ballad. Proper. That was the precursor to ‘In My Life’. It’s the same chord sequence as ‘In My Life’, but – just about ‘round D, and B minor, and E minor, those kind of – things. And uh, it’s… semi-autobiographical, but not that conscious, you know. It’s really about – it’s not about Cyn, my first wife. If I fell in love with you, would you promise to be true… I used to like intros like they had on forties songs, you know, that have a long intro, and then the song would start. So that’s all mine. The harmony’s Paul’s. […] So that shows that I wrote sentimental love ballads – silly love songs, as you call them – way back when.

“You know, I think he would like it. In fact I said to them I hope somebody does this to all my crap demos when I’m dead… make them into hit songs”

With thanks to Joe Wisbey from the Beatles Books Podcast

just gonna leave this here…

edit: it’s so funny to me that Paul doesn’t allude to anything queer in his account of Parisian Beatlemania (he even uses these stereotypical old man voices to impersonate the fans) (bc he’s just *that* deep in the closet) yet George will immediately be like “yeah there were a bunch of gay boys clamoring at our door”

"Whoever slept with George woke up with him wrapped around them"

-Paul McCartney

"George told me once that I smelt like home. I got all paranoid, you know, thinking I smelt of fish and chip shops or dirty bars or something. But he said no, I just always smelt of home."

-Paul McCartney

"They used to jump on me. George used to wake me up by tickling my feet."

– Paul McCartney

"God, my mate George, isn’t he a good-looking boy!"

- Paul McCartney

"I knew George long before the others. We were good chums despite his tender years as it seemed to me then. We were always together. He lived near me in Upton Green and I lived in Ardwick Road, half a mile away, so we took the same bus to the same school, and then we got guitars at the same time. We went through the Bert Weedon books and learned D and A together and we were quite big buddies then. That was something I’d missed for all those years"

-Paul McCartney

"Thing is, there’s a lot about me and George that the public don’t know about, and I like it better that way. That night was very personal, and very special to me. It’s one of my favourite memories."

-Paul McCartney

"I'll always love him, he's my baby brother."

-Paul McCartney

George was always my favorite Beatle. ❤️

Paul genuinely shocked after hearing George owns 12 guitars.

The Beatles Anthology - Director’s Cut