Having Three Brothers.

the iliad//the song of achilles

The great thing about me and John is that it was me and John. End of story. That’s the one great thing that I can think, whereas everyone else can say so-and-so, so-and-so. That’s the nice thing. When we got in a little room it was me and John sitting there, it was me and him who wrote it, not all these other people who think they know all about it. It was me, I must know better than them. I was the one in the room with him.

Paul McCartney, 1989. (via amclennonblog)

Paul and John, 1967

McLennon ♥

“I just saw a girl who said she saw John Lennon walking down the street in New York wearing a button that said, "I love Paul.” she asked him, “Why are you wearing an ‘I love Paul’ button?” and he said, “Because I love Paul." - Harry Nilsson

Now, if I write a song, I’m always cross-checking in my mind, ‘Would John have let me write that line or is it just too soppy?’ Sometimes, I just think, ‘Too bad, it’s my song.’ But I’m always cross-checking with him.

Paul McCartney on writing in a post John Lennon world (2010 Daily Record Interview)

JOHN: (following a vocal mistake) “You’ll have to bear with me or have me shot. I’m sorry.” PAUL: “Yea… well…” JOHN: (jokingly) “Sometimes I feel less than useless at these sessions. I really do. Of course… Cynthia understands. I often talk to her about it when we get home. I say, ‘Sometimes Cynthia, I just can’t get the note.’” PAUL: (joking about John’s mistake, in an overly dramatic voice) “Look, Terrence… If you want to resign from the amature dramatics… DO!” JOHN: (whining, playing along with Paul’s joke) “It’s just that I put alot of money and thought into the whole thing.” PAUL: (jokingly) “Yes, but let’s face it!! You’re crap!!” JOHN: (laughs) “…Well, alright alright!! Who’s father was it that got the hall in the first place!!” PAUL: (continuing to joke) “You were only doing walk-ons, and you were farting those up!!” JOHN: “Oh, give us a kiss!! Ha!!” oh,give us a kiss!

(via beatlessoul)

Scan - The Beatles, Germany, June 1966. Scanned from The Beatles: Inside Beatlemania.

“John loved George, and George loved John. Their friendship was a very special one.” - Yoko Ono, Rolling Stone, 17 January 2002 “‘The thing is, I knew George longer than any of the guys in the Beatles. Doesn’t mean I knew him any better, mind, but I knew him longer. He was the kid in the school uniform with the big quiff who got on the bus the stop after mine. And sometimes he’d sit down next to me and we’d start talking rock’n’roll. We shared our records, we learnt chords together, we even tried to make a guitar together. We did the whole teenage bonding thing, trying to pull birds, hitchhiking to Harlech, all the formative stuff.’ He falls silent for a moment. ‘I can’t quite believe it’s over. It’s just a really sad feeling sometimes. Same with John, except with John’s death there was all this anger too. The jerk of all jerks,’ he hisses, referring to Mark Chapman, Lennon’s murderer, ‘to shoot someone like John Lennon.’ He shakes his head. ‘And now Georgie’s gone too,’ he says, quietly, ‘It’s not a nice feeling, really. Not nice. At all.’”- The Observer interview with Paul McCartney, 18 September 2005 “I loved George, George loved me.” - Ringo Starr, Concert for George, 2002