But You Know It's Not Allowed: A Case for Imagine as a Lennon/McCartney Song
When Paul McCartney decided to include secret messages to John Lennon on Ram ("you took your lucky break and broke it in two" being the type of message he admits to, "I find my love awake and waiting to be / what can be done for you, she's waiting for me" the type he doesn't), he must have known how John would react. This was after Lennon Remembers
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It was a very important moment for John and Paul - not so much for George.
It's struck me from interviews I've seen of Linda that she does have a certain type of charisma. It's not surprising people liked her. It's just - John liking her is not something you would think about. It's not surprising, it's just odd.
(I mean, he was her favorite Beatle. That's got to count for something.)
Ha ha, may well have gone like that.
It occurs to me that one reason why Yoko's relationship with John was a success, while Cynthia and Paul not so much, was that she didn't take John's paranoia personally. I think both Cynthia and Paul, in their different ways, thought that if they showed John they were trustworthy he would trust them. Cynthia stayed by his side and tolerated mistreatment, thinking he would soften. Instead he abused her and abandoned and was still incredibly paranoid about her. Paul didn't let John's issues run the game, but I think he took it very, very personally when John expressed paranoia towards her. They were supposed to be mates, after all, so when John was suspicious of him, afraid that he would take Yoko or only cared about himself, he took it personally. Yoko was more realistic: probably because, as a paranoid person herself, she understood the mindset. John's paranoia was, at the end of the day, about John's paranoia: Not Cynthia, Paul, or Yoko.
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