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amoralto
“Paul and I have been talking about Brian. Linda rejoins us with fresh drinks, starts to turn away. LINDA: Oh! PAUL: It’s me, I’m your husband, sit down. DANNY: Yeah, sit down, we’re talking about the movie The Hours and Times in which the John Lennon and Brian Epstein characters spend a weekend in Spain in 1963. And the premise is that Brian is in love with John and that they have sex. That’s implied, it’s not on screen or anything. PAUL: Well, I’m sure Brian was in love with John, I’m sure that’s absolutely right. I mean, everyone was in love with John; John was lovable, John was a very lovable guy. DANNY:That’s not exactly what this is about. PAUL: (to Linda) Hey, this is supposed to be your interview. LINDA: Carry on. PAUL: But this is relevant in a way. OK, Brian was a lovable guy. And John was sort of more, you know, very middle class, and Brian was middle class, and they could relate to each other. DANNY: As opposed to working class – John, I mean? PAUL: Yeah, as opposed to working class. So they would kind of know about this, what’s expected of them, a little above people, a little superior. Then Brian invited him to come away to Spain. A couple of the guys whom we knew were sort of gay, with a bit of money, were going to Spain. I think the rest of us were a little peeved not to be invited, because somebody was getting a free holiday here. DANNY: Did you think John was going to have a gay sexual experience, or might have? PAUL: No, no, no, it didn’t occur to us. And to this day I don’t know. Now the gay bit, you tell me what you’ve heard, because I don’t know anything. DANNY: It doesn’t matter what I’ve heard. I want to know now, if you think it’s possible that something happened between John and Brian? PAUL: It’s more than possible, it’s more than possible, but, as I’ve said, ‘Come on, this is the fucking Beatles, everyone wants to imagine everything.’ I never got any clue of anything but total hetero. If I saw John doing something, it would be ass bobbing up and down, fucking some chick. There were no real clues whatsoever of John’s possible gay encounter with Brian. There were other clues, there were what straight people might call sexual deviancies. I wouldn’t call them that. I’d call it a bit of a lad on the loose. You’ve got to remember, we all got out of home, we got out on the loose, we got into the Reeperbahn, we got into London, it was all kind of there, and all possible.”

— Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney, interview w/ Danny Fields, c/o Danny Fields, Linda McCartney: A Portrait. (2001)

#this is so#i don’t even know where to begin#j&p#amoralto
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eppysboys

Adam Gustavson’s Artwork for Susanna Reich‘s ‘Fab Four Friends: The Boys Who Became The Beatles’

“It’s worth mentioning that visual documentation on the Beatles is abundant. So, yes, that is Paul McCartney’s mum’s couch, yes, the anti-macassars were white, and yes, she really had that lamp. In other cases, anecdotal evidence is necessary to fill in gaps or inconsistencies. For example, the red dyes used in the 1940s and ‘50s on budget model guitar finishes were often fugitive, causing what was once a warm sunburst finish to fade into an almost greenish hue when viewed today. The goal of this minutia level research is to seem invisible, to hopefully give a veneer of plausibility to imagined scenes in a way that doesn’t seem self conscious or gratuitous.”  Adam Gustavson

#art#beatles
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mclennonwasreal
“When Sam Taylor did her film [Nowhere Boy], she brought the script round and we chatted about it. She’s a very good friend. And I said, “Well, Sam, that’s not really true. John didn’t really ride on the top of the double-decker bus.” She said, “No, but it’s a great scene.” I mean, the character of Mimi, John’s aunt, I said to her, “She really wasn’t how she’s written in the script. She’s written as a very vitriolic, mean old bitch, and she wasn’t at all.” She was just some woman who was given charge of the responsibility of bringing up John Lennon, and it was not an easy job, you know? She was trying her best. She was kind of strict, but it was with a twinkle in her eye. I said, “I used to go around there and write with John, and she was okay. You’ve got to change that.” Some of the things she did change, but in the end we agreed that this is not a documentary, this is a film, and so she made inferences that weren’t there. Like, this whole idea of the first song we recorded, “In Spite of All the Danger,” being John’s ode to his mother. That’s not true, but in a film, it works better. I remember the session, and I remember all the circumstances around that – and we wrote it together. It did not appear to be an angst-ridden ode. We were copying American stuff that we were listening to. American songs were about danger, that’s why we put it in. But, for Sam, it worked much better in the film as an angst-ridden ballad.”

— Paul McCartney on the movie Nowhere Boy, interview for Rolling Stone (via mclennonbook)

Source: mclennonbook
#prev: i agree#nowhere boy was really my introduction to john's story when i first became interested in them#and though there are many things that are wrong i still thing the movie captured his personality and motivations quite well#it does a good job of showing who john was (and part of why he was that way) to somebody who only knows little about him#nowhere boy
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muzaktomyears

In 1980 Peter Brown, a former assistant to Brian Epstein who later ran Apple Corps, managed the Beatles and was best man at John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s wedding, started work on the definitive account of the Beatles. With the American author Steven Gaines, he spoke to the three surviving band members alongside wives, girlfriends, managers, friends, hangers-on and everyone else in the Fabs’ universe. The book promised to be the last word in Beatles history. Then in 1983 The Love You Make was published, and all hell broke loose.

“They were furious,” recalls Gaines, 78, still sounding pained at the memory. “Paul and Linda tore the book apart and burned it in the fireplace, page by page. There was an omerta, a code of silence around the Beatles, and they didn’t think anyone would come forward to tell the truth. But Queenie, Brian Epstein’s mother, told us above all else to be honest.”

“Even she didn’t think we would be quite so honest,” adds Brown, 87, his upper-crust English tones still in place after five decades in New York.

Why did The Love You Make, retitled by Beatles fans as The Muck You Rake, incite such strong feelings? The suggestion of an affair between Lennon and Epstein on a holiday to Barcelona in April 1963, only three weeks after the birth of Lennon’s son Julian, had something to do with it, but more significantly it was taken as a betrayal by a trusted insider. Brown and Gaines locked the recordings in a bank vault and never looked at them again — until now.

#buckle up fellas#the beatles
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tweeterwilbury

have you considered that like. Maybe. Perhaps. It’s the color of the sun cut flat?? It’s covering this crossroads I’m standing at? Or maybe it’s like. The weather or something. Idk. But mama. You’ve been on my mind!! Just had to let you know.

#just something to consider!!!!!!
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no-reply95

“[All These Years] Tune In set a lot of things right about the early years, it really did set down what had occurred yet I still read to this day vast amounts of stuff that are patently wrong about those years… So therefore I think when Volumes 2 and 3 come out the same will happen, people who want to think that John and Paul were lovers will still think it and they’re probably gonna think that I didn’t put it in because I didn’t want to put it in but no… If I find that they’re lovers I shall put it in but I can tell you that I’m not gonna find that they were lovers, because they were not.”

Mark Lewisohn, Fans On The Run Podcast, 2022

#ive only just seen this now and LMAO#i really wanna read tune in soon so i can try and figure out what goes on in this man's head for myself as i read#this quote of his is so funny thats such a thing to say#very professional historian of him#to have made up his mind about the matter#lewisohn#beatles#tune in
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adjit

I think we need to get more comfortable with the idea that sometimes shitty, racist, homophobic, bigoted people are still incredibly talented.

I feel like every time I see a post addressing someone’s shitty behavior the post also takes the time to mention that they’re not even good at [x] anyway. And that’s just not always true? Equating being good at a skill as being morally good is just not necessary. Someone can be a fantastic writer, can have a beautiful singing voice, can create breathtaking artwork, and still be a horrible person.

I know part of this is probably just the instinct to dislike everything about a person when you dislike them, but I also think this mindset leads to people defending creatives way past where they should, because if bad people create bad art, then if this person creates art that I like and resonates with me, then they can’t be a bad person!

And you know. That’s just not true. Those two things are simply completely unconnected and I think it’d be healthier if we all started disconnecting them in our heads.

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big-blueboy-scout

You must kill the voice in your mind that tells you that good art is only made by moral, upstanding people. The most monstrous people you have ever met are capable of art that would make you weep. It is the contradiction at the heart of the human experience.

We create to create, not because we are good or bad. We critique the worldview and beliefs forwarded by that art, but the craft of the art can still be excellent.

Creation is not ethical or moral. It is human.

#yea
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