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John And Paul - Blog Posts
how it feels to have beatles songs like twist and shout and please mister postman as your favourites without some sewer-dwelling rat screeching “YOU CAN’T LIKE THAT IT’S A COVER” in your face
Crying sobbing shitting on the floor
“As I continue to write my own songs, I’m still very conscious that I don’t have him around, but I still have him whispering in my ear after all these years. I’m often second-guessing what John would’ve thought - ‘this is too soppy’ - or what he would’ve said differently, so I sometimes change it. But that’s what being a songwriter is about; you have to be able to look over your own shoulder”
“ I have to do this by myself these days. And if anyone asks me what I was like to work with John, the truth was it was easier - much easier, because there were two minds at work. Mine would be doing this, his would be doing that, and the interplay was just miraculous. And that’s why people are still listening to the songs we wrote. They didn’t just go away like your average pop song. The climate that the two of us created in writing wasn’t a soppy pop song climate. We created an environment in which we might grow, try new things, maybe even learn a thing or two.”
“John is gone I can’t sit around sighing for the old days. I can’t sit around wishing he was still here. Not only can I not replace him, but I don’t need to, in some profound sense.”
- Paul McCartney in his new book ‘The Lyrics’ 2021
My latest Songs Tinhat theory is that Paul recorded "Kreen-Akrore" as a response to "Cold Turkey".
"If *YOU* can make weird sex noises on a record under cover of being about something else, then *I* can make weird sex noises on a record under cover of being about something else!"
It makes sense that Little Lamb Dragonfly, a certified j/p pining tune, contains a musical echo of a Beatles song.
It's considerably less clear why the song in question is..... Rocky Raccoon
The more excerpts I read from that Ian "Monstrous Terf/Zionist" Leslie book the more I see that he just rewrote a bunch of tumblr posts. His contextual knowledge actually seems quite shallow - he just writes in the style of "anecdote we all know + reference to much-shared photo + oft-repeated quote" - a style directly lifted from tumblr. And his apparently not knowing abt the beetles photo on RAM from that talk he did with (puke) Tom Holland is a real tell as to the limits of his knowledge. I wouldn't be surprised if most of his research is posts rather than books/primary sources (whatever his bibliography says). His only original writing seems to be some psychology and some song analysis (tho he's stolen a lot of that too eg In My Life trutherism, originally promoted by OSD.)
It all paints a picture of a grimy little opportunist deliberately queerbaiting to sell his book made up of other people's uncredited or barely-credited research. The text I've seen presents that research without sufficient rigour and puts the book in the same category as all the other sloppy, fanfic-y beatles bios. And some fans are falling all over his grotty transphobic ass bc he's "making McLennon mainstream". With friends like that, who needs enemies? There's a better, non-derivitave, non-sloppy J/P book waiting to be written by a decent person. Ian can go back into the hole he crawled out of and take his chickenshit book with him.
McLennon Paris
McLennon scholars, I’ll be in Paris soon. Are there any specific McLennon related sites I should visit?
Under calico skies 💚
God bless you, Paul McCartney 🫡
John’s Search History 🫦 (pt 3)
Obsessed with them 💕
Sometimes I see a photo like this one and think, “Maybe we’re playing too small. It isn’t McLennon OR Starrison. It’s yes, and. Maybe the Beatles… is just two gay couples.” 🤣
Fav McLennon Christmas fics? Pls rec in the comments, I beg!
Everyone who got an advanced copy of the McLennon book yesterday - are you done reading it yet? Can you tell us everything and or send it to me? 😂😘
Poem is “Short Distance Friendship” by Lyndsay Rush 💜
Always on his mind 👀
I’ll get you in the end
Hmmmmmmm I wonder why John didn’t sing “to know HER is to love HER” instead? 👀
John on the possibility of a Beatles reunion in 1973
How many times do I have to say this? 😤 There’s simply nothing interesting or unusual about the fact that Paul authorized a 654-page biography about his time in a four person band and then the back cover only mentions his love for ONE of those four people. Idk why anyone would expect him to mention George or Ringo by name on the back cover or inside jacket of a 654-page book about their story!! 🙄🙄🙄 As I’ve said hundreds of times before on this blog, there is nothing to see here!! 🙂↔️
Right now, I love you more right now 🪐
Who would even notice that?? Unless you’d practiced writing his last name as your own a thousand times, like a schoolgirl with a gel pen and a fresh binder 😚
Beatles Alignment Chart
Pls make your best case in the comments
Reading We All Shine On by Elliot Mintz - and I can’t help but wonder how many secret Beatle children are out there… am I really supposed to believe that with all of John, Paul, George, and Ringo’s sexscapades that there aren’t a few, maybe even MANY, other Beatle kids??
Screaming, crying, throwing up
In my life, I loved you more
Ah yes, a very standard thing for one heterosexual man to say to another heterosexual man, using personal pronouns, alone in each other's’ company. Nothing to see here! 👀