I Could Never Really Live Without You

You can tell which of the Beatles wrote each song cuz it’s usually like

Paul: I love you I love you I love you I love you (watch out there is a homicidal freak in your area and he IS going to get you).

John: I hate myself and want to die but also I’m on a lot of hard drugs, so that’s cool I guess (I love you too Paul).

George: I’m spiritually enlightened and also I smoke a lot of weed.

Ringo: the ocean. Sea creatures and submarines.

Different photographers different wiews

The father, the fellow artist, the lover, the beatle, the brother, the friend, the loved one, the young man, the troubled soul

John Lennon • October 9, 1940

Photographs by:

Cynthia Lennon / Yoko Ono / May Pang Kishin Shinoyama / George Harrison / Ringo Starr Paul McCartney / Astrid Kirchherr / Linda McCartney

PAUL MCCARTNEY & GEORGE HARRISON — trying to close a suitcase, 1964

It’s just about a gang of weirdos who love each other singing from the literal rooftops and, for a few minutes, bringing colour to a grey city. It’s about how all good things must come to an end but by simply happening they’re still significant. It’s about the constant battle between art/people/LOVE against forces that want them to conform. It’s about how friendship can literally change the world. It’s about hope. It’s about the power of dreaming. It’s cold and their fingers are going numb and the uniformed police officers, ever-present in the background, are making them unplug their instruments. But they just plug them back in!!! Maybe they can’t finish the concert but they’re finishing the song if it’s the last thing they do and they’ll even crack some jokes while they’re at it. Poetic cinema…

The Beatles at Brian Epstein’s home in Belgravia, London, 19 May 1967.

Photography by Barrie Wentzell.

like have you ever seen john lennon and richard iii in the same room

Some of my favorites pics of them for Now and Then Day.

I THINK THEY ROLLED UP THE WRONG MYSTERY TOUR GUYS

People questioning the whole re-release of Now and then 50+ years after the Beatles broke up is missing the point. The song is a gift to us who are lucky enough to enjoy the magic of the Beatles, of course, but it was never made for us. Alexis Peditris described this perfectly in the last paragraphs of his review for the Guardian:

This is McCartney letting go. This is him saying one last proper goodbye to the people he loved the most, the music that defined his life, his past mistakes, his wrong choices, his "what-ifs", his family, alongside Starr, the only person who knew exactly what it was like and who's been on this journey with him together.

This is the end of 40 years of grieving that began when that gun was fired in front of the Dakota in 1980 and continued when Harrison left them on a bed in his house in 2001.

This is him, at 81 years old, knowing this could be his last decade singing the songs that he wrote with John and George because there in the songs there will always be a part of them with him, and finally being at peace with it.

This is him saying,

Thank you for the good memories.

Goodbye.

Paul McCartney and George Harrison in Melbourne (June 1964)