Sunday Smile

[selenak]

Doctor Who review later, but I just saw some kind fan edited five minutes of highlights from the George Martin documentary with Paul and Ringo for YouTube. If you want to start (or end, depending on your time zone) your day with a smile, this is ideal, as everyone is being adorable and funny:

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[selenak]

I think it was both, because Paul has a track record of burying himself in work in times of emotional distress (btw: note George Harrison went to the studio that day as well, which I think is a subtle sign of how George H. was imprinted not just by John but Paul as well in terms of automatic responses to certain situations) but being with George M. was definitely the other and presumably greater reason.

As much as a comfort Linda was, she didn't know John as well as Martin did. And she didn't have the comforting authority and calm that George M. represents to Paul.

That, and George Martin had both loved John as well and known what it was like to be hurt by him. (When someone as restrained and discreet as Martin admits that what John said in the Rolling Stone Lennon Remembers interview from 1970 really hurt him, you can imagine how deeply it must have cut.) And he'd known John and Paul in their good days; Linda had been witness to the dissolving stage, but she hadn't experienced the good times with them.

It really was like running to daddy - running to the person who really served in that paternal role for Paul and had since Paul was 19 years old.

Yes, and given that home, with his own children of course Paul had to be the strong father figure, this makes even more emotional sense.

Have you seen the Making Of documentary of the Cirque de Soleil show Love? There is that scene when Paul comes for a visit and George Martin hugs him, which is very telling as well because that happened right in the middle of the Heather Mills separation disaster.