“The last time I met him [George], he was very sick and I held his hand for four hours…I kept thinking, ‘he’s going to smack me here.’ But he didn’t. He just stroked my hand with his thumb and I thought ‘Ah, this is OK, this is life. It’s tough but it’s lovely.” —Paul McCartney
“Whatever bad things John said about me, he would also slip his glasses down to the end of his nose and say, ‘I love you’. That’s what I really hold on to. That’s what I believe. The rest is showing off.” —Paul McCartney
"In fact, after he died, the thing that helped me the most, really, was talking to Yoko about it. She volunteered the
information that he had...really liked me. She said that once or twice, they had sat down to listen to my records and
he had said, 'There you are." Paul McCartney
"I tell you, Larry, there is no other band, there will never be any band like them ever, for eternity. They are the best, I say to you Larry, here in 1965, that the children of 2000 will be listening to the Beatles. And I sincerely mean that.”
—Brian Epstein
John Lennon singing “Yesterday”, “Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey” & a shortened version of “My Sweet Lord” in his hotel room in Syracuse, New York on his 31st birthday in 1971 surrounded by friends & guests 🤍
John Lennon cries while singing an early demo of Real Love & I'm Stepping Out and it somewhat maybe(?) seems to be about Paul (?)
"Was I just dreaming, or was it only yesterday
I used to hold you in my arms
And now a baby and another on the way
[…Farm(?)]
Why must we be alone?"
after the recording of free as a bird, paul, rjngo & george took this picture outside of the studio, when a (rare) white peacock came into the shot last minute
“I said to the other guys, ‘That’s John!’ Spooky, eh? It was like John was hanging around.” —Paul McCartney
john lennon as interviewed by john lennon (yeah, himself ), if he had done anything particular w/ paul mccartney
addressing a rumor that hadn’t actually existed until he created it
unprompted it seems
beatles logo doodles in paul’s paris diary
1961
(taken from the lyrics by paul mccartney)
i wonder if paul or john had done the john signature w/ the clef, v cute
(their faces 😭❤️) “I was thinking the other day, 'I wish I had sat and just hugged John all the time when we were together. l'd just sit around and hug him forever. That's the depth of my feeling for him." —Paul McCartney in 2020
“When John passed away so suddenly that night, I felt as though half of me flew away with him. Spring came and went. I was surprised that the leaves were shining so intensely when John was no more. It seemed like a crime, that everything else was still so alive.” —Yoko Ono
this is a picture of paul mccartney that freddie mercury drew when he was a teenager
freddie eventually was at live aid performing on stage with him
it’s just so sweet and inspiring i love it
Paul McCartney performs ‘Let Me Roll It’ (Glastonbury 2004) & changes the lyric from ‘you’ to ‘he’
“You gave me something, I understand
*He* gave me loving in the palm of my hand”
“When I painted him [John] recently, I found myself saying: ‘How did his lips go? I can’t remember.’ Then I would think: ‘Of course you know, you wrote all those songs facing each other.’" - Paul McCartney
(📸 paul & john during rehearsals for the shakespeare skit)
"He and I used to have a deadly rivalry. I don't know why. He was older and a strong friend of John's.
When I look back on it I think we were probably fighting for John's attention."
—Paul McCartney on Stuart Sutcliffe
“It’s still weird to even say, ‘before he died.’ I still can’t come to terms with it. I still don’t believe. It’s like, you know, these dreams you have, where he’s still alive; then you wake up and… ‘Oh.’” —Paul McCartney
He was always saying, ‘I wonder what Paul is doing.’ I remember him saying, ‘Do you think I should write with Paul again?’ I said, ‘Absolutely. You should because you want to. The two of you as solo performers are good, but together you can’t be beaten." - May Pang
“We all have albums, singles, everything, zooming up the charts. Isn’t that nice? Separately; But together.”
—John Lennon on The Beatles being *individually* on the top charts in ‘74
“…John was the kindest person I ever knew. He was the only one of the four of us who would give his soul. The three of us would hesitate, but John would give you anything without hesitation. And I loved the man dearly. We were friends all the time.” —Ringo Starr, 1981