That Feeling When The Married Couple Next To You Starts Squabbling

Stevie Nicks during the Mirage Tour, 1982.

Q: "Is there a song on your album 'Imagine' that refers to Paul? Lines about a pretty face and the sound of Muzak?"

John Lennon: (smiling) "Er, there's a song which COULD be a statement about Paul. It could be interpreted that way. But then, it could be about an old chick I'd known."

ㅡ John Lennon interview for Alan Smith (Hit Parade), February, 1972.

Paul: I'll be overpowering this time

John (joking but serious): oh good. I like it when you're brutal

real talk paul mccartney is such a resilient guy if my mum died when i was a teenager and then my manager died at the peak of my fame forcing me to take a leadership position that all my bandmates/brothers would hate me for and then leave me and write songs talking shit about me and then my closest friend/songwriting partner/ex lover was shot outside his home and then my beloved wife and other musical partner died relatively young (of the aame disease that killed my mum) and then my baby brother died a couple years later (also of cancer) i wouldnt even be a recluse i would just kill myself.

John in the 1970s

John + Paul in Adelaide, being possibly the most in sync I’ve ever seen them

1989.

Drew this from a scene in Writing Letters (On My Wall) by @glowing-gold if you want to know what happens next i guess you'll have to read it! (don't worry it's great)

“Alright, then. Your turn.” “Hmm?” “You owe me. Paint me a picture. Something to get me through the rest of my dreary day.” Paul felt his stomach swoop. “Well… I’m not cooking.” “I don’t want to hear about bloody food , Paul. What are you doing, right now? Where exactly are you sitting?” Paul felt his skin prickle with heat.  “Well...” Paul started, not sure how far to take this. “I’m sitting in the kitchen.”

August, 1980: John talks to Playboy writer David Sheff about ‘If I Fell’.

JOHN: That’s my first attempt at a – at a ballad. Proper. That was the precursor to ‘In My Life’. It’s the same chord sequence as ‘In My Life’, but – just about ‘round D, and B minor, and E minor, those kind of – things. And uh, it’s… semi-autobiographical, but not that conscious, you know. It’s really about – it’s not about Cyn, my first wife. If I fell in love with you, would you promise to be true… I used to like intros like they had on forties songs, you know, that have a long intro, and then the song would start. So that’s all mine. The harmony’s Paul’s. […] So that shows that I wrote sentimental love ballads – silly love songs, as you call them – way back when.

The Beatles arrive back in London from Paris, 5th February 1964 - part two (part one)