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‘I spend a lot of time dreaming. I’m like a cat: I watch the shadows on the wall... I watch the park change through my window. I spend most of my time here.’

— The bedroom, sun’s almost gone, December 3rd, 1980

"Seeing as it’s Thanksgiving, we thought we’d make tonight a bit of a joyous occasion by inviting someone up with us onto stage. And ah, I’m sure he will be no stranger to anyone in the audience when I say it’s our great privilege and your great privilege to see and hear Mr. John Lennon!" - Elton John

john lennon and elton john // november 28, 1974

madison square garden, new york city

★ John Lennon at The Top Ten Club, hamburg, April 1961

John Lennon dressed up as Elvis Presley at the party for the Magical Mystery Tour Premiere, December 21, 1967. ㅡ From The Beatles Monthly Book n°55, February/1968.

“He was like our own little Elvis … We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.” (in a 1987 interview, Paul explains that the other Beatles idolised John)

Stu, John…George & Paul

Photograph of John Lennon taken in the late Stuart Sutcliffe’s studio in Hamburg, Germany | April 1962 © Astrid Kirchherr (I) (II) (III)

John and George visiting Stuart Sutcliffes room. Photographed by Astrid Kirchherr.

“After Stuart’s death, John and George really cared about me. They used to come and see me in my home. It was actually John’s suggestion. John said, ‘Can I see where he used to paint?’ So I said, ‘Of course, you can.’

“In that moment, I had to take a picture of them. I just grabbed this old chair and put it there. And John was so full of emotion, being in the same room where his friend was just painting, that he nearly burst out in tears. And George was all a bit worried. So I just said to George, ‘Well, stand behind him.’ You could see how quickly George understood what it was all about, death and being alive.

December 16, 1974. An extract from John Lennon’s interview with Jim Hartz on the Today Show, NBC Television Network, NYC. Sounding generally positive towards the possibility of working again with his former bandmates, John tries to answer a question about his “celebrated” feud with Paul McCartney. (source)

“If I get… married, divorced [pause] it’s celebrated. So The Beatles had a divorce and Paul and I were always, sort of, the out front ones… and so our “celebrated” feud. You know, Lennon/McCartney was… that was… we wrote the songs… and it was bigger. And I think we were…  I put it down now to probably –  we all – actually we were all probably very nervous about suddenly being on our own, although we all really wanted to get away from each other for a bit after living in a room together for ten years.”

(I added subtitles, though I may have missed a couple of words. Enjoy.) 

They look like frightened huddled little marmosets confronted by a massive heron

Photo by Ringo Starr: “I knew it would happen one day and it looks like it did. Paul’s finally gone off his head. A real nut!”

Scanned by Doug Pratt from Ringo’s Photo Album magazine (1964). Posted here with his kind permission.

Paul McCartney in the British film  Eat the Rich

Yoko Ono and John Lennon photographed by David Bailey, 1971.

"... I'm a troubadour, I've got my little guitar, I'm in a field and I'm writing about the stream and daffodils and the sunshine and whatever's occurring to me." - Paul McCartney, The Lyrics, 2021

Never late for some Mclennon ❤️

Ok, we’re used to the eye f*cking on stage, but this is on a whole new level.

Wish they had kept this in the video.

John Lennon’s Shoes

paul mccartney, 1961 ⚲ sefton park, liverpool taken by his brother, mike mccartney ♡

the beatles : “mad day out” photoshoot by don mccullin in july, 1968 ꩜