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Mar 28, 2011 20:10

Daily annoyance for this long-suffering Beatles fan:

1) Coming across a fanboy who interprets the lyrics from Here Today as an attack on John. Quoth the fanboy: "Didn't understand a thing - Paul is saying John was daft". Head. Desk. (The verse in question goes - "What about the time we met? Well, I suppose that you could say that we were playing ( Read more... )

(some) people are stupid, jimi hendrix, philipp norman, harrison, beatles

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selenak March 29 2011, 07:03:45 UTC
:) And beaming Mike on the other side. That wedding must have been a fun one by all accounts and snapshots. Here's Paul giving the speech:



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airie_fairy March 29 2011, 07:23:38 UTC
JAAANE.

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selenak March 29 2011, 08:05:42 UTC
More Jane at Mike's wedding:





They were undeniably a drop dead gorgeous couple. And here's Jane on July 20 1968 just before breaking the news in a BBC interview that their relationship is over:



(The song actually predates the event, but it's pretty hard not to think of For No One here.)

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airie_fairy March 29 2011, 08:21:36 UTC
As lovely as that is from an aesthetic point of view, I'm going to go ahead and counter with this:


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selenak March 29 2011, 08:34:55 UTC
Awwwww, and also LOL at the "Win!" expression. Here she is with brother Peter:



and with Paul again:



And on a note of "it's a small world", here's Jane's husband, Gerald Scarfe, with Paul's daughter Mary:



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airie_fairy March 29 2011, 08:38:09 UTC
SO MUCH GINGER.

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selenak March 29 2011, 10:07:35 UTC
That family looks like it had the patent on ginger, doesn't it? And on artistic gifts, between mother Margaret teaching music (she taught George Martin playing the oboe, in another case of small world), Dr. Asher being a groundbreaking pioneer, Peter's acting and singing and Jane's acting. When you read the biographies you rather get the impression Paul fell for the lot of them, and no surprise.

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