Shoutout To That One Mclennon Joke In The Rutles

artists for ceasefire!!

Paul’s Instagram April 4, 2024

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The first attempt at “I Saw Her Standing There” from The Lyrics

(v. 1 p 327)

You’re just seventeen You act like a queen Your…..are beyond compare So how could I dance with another When I see you standing there.

i’m sorry…

YOU ACT LIKE A QUEEN?

Also, totally gender neutral. It started out totally and completely gender neutral.

Michael Parkinson: What was sad too was the way it drove a wedge between your relationship, you and John – was it always a spiky relationship? I mean, you said you loved him-

Paul: Yes M: -and that love comes through in the book. Did he love you? P: Yeah. I don’t think it was… Yeah, I think he did actually. *laughs* We’ll check. Just excuse me for a moment. ‘John, come on, baby, did, yes.’ Yeah, I think he did, yeah. It wasn’t actually a spiky relationship at all. It was, uh, very warm, very close and very loving, I think. All The Beatles. We used to say, I think we were amongst the first sort of men to come out openly – and you remember, it was quite sort of strange in those days, we’re talking about a long time ago now when homosexuality was still sort of largely illegal – we used to say ‘I love him’ on interviews and the interviewers would get slightly taken aback, a man saying he loved someone. But I think, quite genuinely, we really did and I still do. Um, but the business thing came right in the middle of it, the lawyers came along with the business thing and I talked to John many years. Because the great saving grace was we did put our relationship back together.

M: You did, it-

P: Thank god for that! Because I don’t know what I’d do now with him gone if we hadn’t. I think I would be, uh, wracked with all sorts of guilt. But we did.

the way George is talking, I'm crying

I wanted to know what Paul's looking so lovingly at on the back of their cover so I recreated his hand placement and this is approximately where his left hand is pointing at.

Here is a clean copy for my John girlies:

“Yeah. That line was a joke, you know. That line was put in partly because I was feeling guilty because I was with Yoko, and I knew I was finally high and dry. In a perverse way, I was sort of saying to Paul, ‘Here, have this crumb, have this illusion, have this stroke… because I’m leaving you.’”

- John, when asked about the lyric ‘The walrus was Paul’ in “Glass Onion”. (Playboy Interview, 1980) 

“The Beatles is over but John, Paul, George and Ringo, God knows what relationship they’ll have in the future, I don’t know. You know, but they still, I still love those guys. Because they’ll always be those people that were that part of my life.”

These pictures together are really good!