The One Time Mclennon Doesn’t Top And Tail It

Early Paul McCartney song lyric and a doodle.

Drop everything, new John & Paul photo from 1974 just dropped!

John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney, May Pang and Harry Nilsson in LA, 29th March 1974. Photo taken by Mal Evans.

For Mal, the sunny afternoon of March 29 would bring pure magic in contrast with the previous evening’s lackluster proceedings. The McCartney clan showed up [at the Santa Monica beach house] out of the blue, this time with daughters Heather, Mary, and Stella in tow, and Mal was thrilled at the prospect of seeing John and Paul together again—twice in the span of two days, no less. And he was by no means disappointed, observing the two old friends reclining on the patio together and, later, walking along the beach, with May, Linda, and the McCartney brood trailing along behind them. “Nice to see him and John together,” Mal scribbled in his diary later that month.

At one point that afternoon, Evans reached for his camera and snapped a photo of the two old friends lounging at the beach house — flanked by their partners, Linda and May Pang, and Harry Nilsson. May would also take some Polaroids of the meeting at some point this day, but there's a very real possibility that Evans' picture is the last photo ever taken of the 20th Century's greatest songwriting duo. (It will be included in the upcoming collection of Evans' diaries and archives, slated for publication in 2024.)

“How Lucky Was I, to have those men in my life?”

I think Paul really spoke for all of us 😭

(The cropped versions are wallpaper friendly! 🥰)

This is a clip from the BBC interview Idris Elba did with Paul McCartney. It was produced by Mary McCartney. I just thought these were interesting visuals to put with this song.

The audio of the previous reblog of Paul's 'John was a darling then'-quote.

Paul talking about ‘Get Back’ on the ‘Fly on the Wall’ podcast with Dana Carvey and David Spade, 12th October 2022

“So, he sent me a little clip, which really saved my life”

“I loved it, I really loved it… it was like having an old home movie of yourself, but perfect. And you know I really… I forgave myself, when I saw that”

“We’re looking at each other, and, you know, that spirit was always there, from the minute I met John to the minute the Beatles broke up, and beyond actually, you know. There was always that sort of… we’re just two guys, goofing our way through the world”

Is it true that after recording "real love" Paul took jeff lynne in his arms and said "oh john, give us a kiss"?

It didn’t happen during “Real Love” recording, but during  ‘Free as a bird’ recording. Jeff Lynne said it in 2007, in an interview for Q Magazine.

At the end, after he heard ‘Free As A Bird’, Paul gave me this great big hug and said, ‘Oh, John, give me a kiss.“

I'm sure he'd prefer to be alive but there’s also no way that john lennon wouldn’t be a at least a little self-satisfied with the idea of his death permanently making him the center of paul’s universe. he doesn't seem like the "you need to let me go" type. he seems more like the "if you don't cry over me at least once a week I'm going to start flickering the lights on and off until you have a seizure" type