Spring sunrise.
“George told me once that I smelt like home. I got all paranoid, you know, thinking I smelt of fish and chip shops or dirty bars or something. But he said no, I just always smelt of home.” — Paul McCartney
“It used to be PaulnGeorge… as one word. They were the kids from the grammar school. That’s how we referred to them. For ages we didn’t even know George really, he was just ‘Paul’s mate’.” — Len Garry
“The papers try and stir things and act like there’s some kind of problem, but at the end of the day, I love him, he’s my mate and that’s all there is to it.” — George Harrison
“Paul and George always ganged up on people. Like Stuart. They could get pretty bitchy.” — John Lennon
“They used to spend all of their spare time together. Even the school holidays.” — Hunter Davis
“George didn’t mind slagging Paul off. But he HATED other people doing it.” — Tom Petty
The Beatles perform at the Scala Theatre during the filming of A Hard Day’s Night, 1964
the fact that John and Paul had a modus operandi for getting people out of the band by making the manager do it....... i am obsessed
Paul McCartney and Linda Eastman (later McCartney) at the Sgt Peppers Lonely Clubs Heart Band press launch, May 19th, 1967.
This was Paul and Linda's second meeting after they met 4 days prior at a Georgie Fame concert while Linda was with the Animals, and Paul was with some friends on May 15, 1967. Yesterday was 58 years since the couple first met. (X)
“It was widely believed that Lennon’s relationship with McCartney was at its lowest point at this time, but Van Scyoc {Gary Van Scyoc, bassist on Some time in NYC, 1972} saw ample evidence that this simply wasn’t the case. “You would read in the New York Post that they were at each other’s throats. I had a copy of the paper in my kit bag, and as I walk into the session, John is on the phone with Paul in Scotland for an hour-and-a-half and they’re yakking it up. That doesn’t really sound like two people who are at each others throats, does it?”
Richard White, Come Together : Lennon and McCartney In The Seventies