I've Always Wondered About The Key West Incident. "We Ended Up Crying – About, You Know, How Wonderful

I've always wondered about the Key West incident. "We ended up crying – about, you know, how wonderful we were, and how much we loved each other, even though we’d never said anything". Does that we only refer to John and Paul or to the four Beatles ?

Actually, he has changed version quite a few times. But the official one is that it was just him and John, because this story comes from the song “Here Today” (song he wrote for John) and the line “What about the night we cried”:

“WE WERE IN KEY WEST IN 1964. WE WERE DUE TO FLY INTO JACKSONVILLE, IN FLORIDA, AND DO A CONCERT THERE, BUT WE’D BEEN DIVERTED BECAUSE OF A HURRICANE. WE STAYED THERE FOR A COUPLE OF DAYS, NOT KNOWING WHAT TO DO EXCEPT, LIKE, DRINK. I REMEMBER DRINKING WAY TOO MUCH, AND HAVING ONE OF THOSE TALKING-TO-THE-TOILET BOWL EVENINGS. IT WAS DURING THAT NIGHT, WHEN WE’D ALL STAYED UP WAY TOO LATE, AND WE GOT SO PISSED THAT WE ENDED UP CRYING - ABOUT, YOU KNOW, HOW WONDERFUL WE WERE, AND HOW MUCH WE LOVED EACH OTHER, EVEN THOUGH WE’D NEVER SAID ANYTHING. IT WAS A GOOD ONE: YOU NEVER SAY ANYTHING LIKE THAT. ESPECIALLY IF YOU’RE A NORTHERN MAN.“

— Paul explaining the line “What about the night we cried?” from Here Today (Source: Guardian Unlimited, 2004)

This is from an interview on Daily Mail:

“THAT WAS IN KEY WEST, WHEN A CONCERT HAD BEEN POSTPONED, BECAUSE OF A HURRICANE IN FLORIDA. AND SO WE HAD TO HIDE OUT FOR A COUPLE OF DAYS, AND ENDED UP IN THIS LITTLE HOTEL SUITE TOGETHER.‘ONE NIGHT, WE GOT PRETTY DRUNK AND ARGUED AND LAUGHED, AND IT ENDED UP US BOTH CRYING, BECAUSE IT WAS, YOU KNOW AT THE HEIGHT OF YOUR DRUNKENNESS, WHEN YOU’RE ALL, “HEY MAN, I LOVE YOU, MAN. NO, I LOVE YOU, MAN.”’‘THAT WAS PROBABLY THE ONLY TIME WE JUST GOT THAT KIND OF INTIMATE WITH EACH OTHER"

This is from an interview in 2011 with Terry Gross:

MR. MCCARTNEY: I seem to remember we had some time off in Key West, Florida, and it was because there was a hurricane, and we’d been diverted, I think, from Jacksonville.So we had to spend a night or two in Key West, is where we ended up, anyway. And at that age, with that much time on our hands, we really didn’t know what to do with it except get drunk.And so that was what we did. And we stayed up all night talking, talking, talking like it was going out of style. And at some point early in the morning, I think we must have touched on some points that were really emotional, and we ended up crying, which was very unusual for us, because we - members of a band and young guys, we didn’t do that kind of thing. So I always remembered it as a sort of important emotional landmark.GROSS: Do you remember what you were talking about that led to that?MR. MCCARTNEY: Probably our mothers dying, because John and I shared that experience. My mother died when I was about 14, and his died shortly after - about a year or so after, I think. So this was a great bond John and I always had.We both knew the pain of it, and we both knew that we had to put on a brave face because we were sort of teenage guys, and you didn’t talk about that kind of thing where we came from.

Once or maybe twice I’ve heard this story by Paul in which he has randomly added George or Ringo too. But I’m 100% sure it was just him and John. Don’t ask me why he does that, it’s the same “We loved john” story (when Paul has to say he loves John he never says “I” he always adds random people like George Harrison and says “We all loved John”)

He probably doesn’t want the scene to be too intimate, dear god he has a serious problem with showing affection toward John in public.

1966 Press Conference

Q: Why did you subject yourself to a public apology in front of television cameras?

JOHN: If I were at the stage I was five years, I would have shouted we’d never tour again, pack myself off, and that would be the end of it. Lord knows, I don’t need the money. But the record burning, that was a real shock, the physical burning. I couldn’t go away knowing that I’d created another little pocked of hate in the world. Especially with something as uncomplicated as people listening to records, dancing, and enjoying what the Beatles are. Not when I could do something about it. If I said tomorrow I’m not going to play again, I still couldn’t live with somebody hating for something so irrational.

Q: Why don’t you tell your fans all this?

JOHN: But that’s the trouble with being truthful. You try to apply truth talk, although you have to be false sometimes because this whole thing is false in a way, like a game. But you hope that if you’re truthful with somebody, they’ll stop all the plastic reaction and be truthful back and it’ll be worth it. But everybody is playing the game and sometimes I’m left naked and truthful with everybody biting me. It’s disappointing. I can’t express myself very well, that’s my whole trouble. I was just commenting, in my illiterate way of speaking.

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mclennonlovebot

4 years ago

Sir please thats my emotional support stack of books that i havent read

Domestic terrorist masterpost

Masterpost of identified insurrectionists who participated in the violent attempted overthrow/coup of the US government on 7 January 2021.

Richard “Bigo” Barnett of Gravette, Arkansas, who broke into the Capitol and stole mail from Speaker Pelosi’s desk.

Jon Schaffer from heavy metal band Iced Earth under record label Century Media Records.

Known Nazi Matthew Heimbach.

Nicholas Rodean of Frederick, Maryland.

Photos and IDs courtesy of @HomeGrownTerrorists on Instagram.

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mclennonlovebot

4 years ago

this whole discussion about a Mulan life-action baffles me. Like… I love the fun with Mushu and all but? Why do we need a Disney remake of the movie when there is

a pretty much epic

beautiful

actually Chinese version

with great characters

and Mulan’s more accurate story

readily available???

Since 2009??

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mclennonlovebot

4 years ago

After Their Breakup The Deal Was That John Could Say Things About Paul, But If You Did

After their breakup the deal was that John could say things about Paul, but if you did – if anyone said anything bad about Paul, John would take a swing at you. He’d say, “You can’t talk about Paul like that.” Paul was his best buddy. If you were talking to Paul, and you said something derogatory about John, he’d get up and leave. Paul was more of a peaceful guy, but John had that hot head, and he would say, “You wanna talk about Paul? Let’s go.” You weren’t allowed to say anything bad about Paul or John to each one of them. They would defend each other to the nth degree – which I liked. I thought that was great. You knew that they were connected at the hip. Honestly, the two of them as friends, there was never a time when they wouldn’t have fought for the other guy. They would just write songs. That’s how they fought: writing songs. – Alice Cooper

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mclennonlovebot

4 years ago

thanksgiving sucks go help some natives survive. help our families too.

mi’kmaq fishing sovereignty post: https://ysera.tumblr.com/post/632357902965932032

navajo/hopi covid relief fund: https://ysera.tumblr.com/post/631833415079133184

sovereign bodies/mmiw database fund: https://ysera.tumblr.com/post/631828874798497792

navajo water project: https://www.navajowaterproject.org/

more efforts and posts about indigeneity: https://ysera.tumblr.com/tagged/ndn/

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mclennonlovebot

4 years ago

an explanation is not owed

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4 years ago

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mclennonlovebot

4 years ago

Beatles discuss business sometime in early 1969 (John is offscreen to the right I’m pretty sure)

“anytime is paradise when i’m with you” ahshhshdh y’allllll

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mclennonlovebot

4 years ago

January, 1964: John works on the composition of ‘If I Fell’.

JOHN: So I hope you see that I / Would love to love you / I hope that she won’t cry / When she learns we are two / We’re two / Gonna be the two two of us in love / Two two of us in love…

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