November 17, 1974 - May Pang And John Lennon Attend The"Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band On The

Bob Dylan is really such a funny dude to exist. you’re a teenager who’s really obsessed with this one folk musician. ok. normal. then you hear said folk musician is in the hospital and what do you do? drop out of college and travel all the way from minnesota to new york to see him. and while you’re there you might as well become a folk singer yourself. okay sure. you sound a little weird but damn can you write. you get signed to a record label. record an album. does pretty well. record another album. does really well. now you’re famous. you go on tour in the uk. you sing at the march on washington. you release another album, and another. you’re the spokesman for a movement, for a generation. you’re a poet. you’re a golden child. thing is, you hate all that. so you learn electric guitar and everyone else hates all that and boos you and you cry but who cares? they can keep booing you, you’re still bob dylan. you keep going with this electric thing. someone calls you judas but at least you’re not christ. oh yeah and you’ve been on and off with the second most famous folk singer of your generation. well that’s over now. you marry someone else. you get in a motorcycle accident. finally a fucking break. you don’t appear in public again until woody guthrie (remember woody guthrie?) dies and you perform at his memorial concert. you change up your musical style. you make friends with george harrison. you’re not getting good reviews but who cares? youre bob dylan. you act in a film. sure. you go on tour again. you’re having problems with your wife. you go on tour again but this time it’s this vaudeville thing and everyone’s on drugs. joan baez is there in drag as you. you make this weird, bad, half-improvised film where you’re there with your ex and your wife. everyone has signed up for these psychological mind games and no one wins. you convert to evangelical christianity. everyone hates it. you drop it. you release some of your most negatively reviewed music. you form the greatest supergroup of all time. great. you have a resurgence in popularity. even better. you get a nobel prize. you don’t even show up to claim it. you’ve been considered one of the greatest musicians of all time for sixty years. they make a movie about you. it stars one of the biggest actors of the day. and now over sixty years after you dropped out of college and traveled to the east coast, people are writing fanfic of you getting topped by johnny cash.

John Lennon noticing fans waving at The Beatles during the Rooftop Concert on January 30th, 1969

happy anniversary to john lennon seeing a ufo. august 23, 1974.

Ughhhh this has so many flaws but here you go! This song ruined my life 😀

And here are the still versions :(((

October, 1973: John sings his own brittle, crooning rendition of ‘Be My Baby’ by The Ronettes. (Note: The number was originally recorded for - but left off of - John’s Rock ‘N’ Roll LP. It was eventually released on the unauthorised Roots LP. This is an alternate rough mix of the track.) 

I am so sorry….

John Lennon at the Astor Tower Hotel in Chicago, IL | 11 August 1966 © Harry Benson

"I hadn't seen them in a while and we all had changed. They had lost some of their innocence and were more cynical. They were also getting a lot of negative publicity in the United States after John's comments about The Beatles being bigger than Jesus Christ. I joined them in Chicago and Lennon was getting a lot of flak from the press. He was in his hotel room in tears and saying: 'Harry, me and my big mouth.'"~ Harry Benson

"This morning he and Paul lamented: 'We forget we're Beatles. We shall have to be more guarded in the future.' Outside the hotel pro-Beatles teenagers demonstrated AGAINST the apology. One 15-year-old shrieked: 'John has sold out to the adults.'" ~ Daily Express

My headcanon about The Lovers That Never Were is that Paul pulls a No Words situation. Like in No Words -where he inserts a deeply personal thing we later (way after the fact) find that it was something John used to say to him- Paul throws in TLTNW phrases that are not his but Johns. Like, for instance, "if we can't be lovers we'll never be friends", that sounds sooo much like something 67/68 (specially 68) John would say. That kind of black/white yes/no relationship breaker.

But at the same time, the protagonist of TLTNW complains that the other person is running away from him and does not answer anymore, as if that person had thrown the stone and then hidden his hand, as if he did not want to take charge of the situation that he himself started. And that also feels like John hiding behind other people or not going to face to face meetings.

Anyway, TLTNW, nice vocals.

John Lennon at EMI Studios in London, England | 30 March 1967 © Frank Herrmann