It was fifty-four years ago today...

[selenak]

It's one of those occasions that made it into pop legend, and, as quoted at length in this post, inspires a lot of rock biographers to vent their inner purple prose stylist to this day: July 6th, 1957, aka The Day John Met Paul. Now I've quoted the most florid best descriptions of the meetings itself already, plus in Bad Brückenau I'm far from most

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[ponygirl2000]

A wonderful celebration of the anniversary!

[selenak]

I just couldn't let the day pass without posting about it. :)

[ponygirl2000]

As an aside I like how in interviews their accents make fete sound like "fate." Very fitting!

[selenak]

:) Bob Spitz who minus the Yoko aversion wrote the best Beatles biography so far calls the relevant chapter "A Simple Twist of Fete".

St. Peter's in Woolton put up this plate:

[beagle_agent]

"Couldn't you sing, "She loves you. Yes! Yes! Yes!"' At which point we collapsed in a heap and said, 'No, Dad, you don't quite get it!' That's my classic story about my dad.
Hilarious story! Could have happened today...

Great post, wonderful celebration of this day!

Astrid

[selenak]

It so could. Here's a photo of Jim and Paul which I spotted on tumblr the other day and which proves the famous eyebrows are genetic (and unplucked *g*):

[beagle_agent]

Yes..the eyebrow. I wonder if any of his children got it...not sure, but I tend to think it is Mary. But maybe just because she looks a lot like Paul.

The older he gets the more he looks like his dad. When he was younger, he had a lot of his mother in his features, but the older he gets, the more he resembles his dad. Only the hair is different LOL.

Astrid

[selenak]

I think James does, but because he's blond it's harder to tell. Bea does look a lot like Paul as a child, down to an identical mouth, but again, blonde, so the eyebrows don't stand out the same way.

True about Paul resembling Jim more and more in old age. Though in this particular photo, you can see the resemblance even when he's young!

[local_max]

Excellent post. I too get a kick out of Paul's dad saying "Couldn't you just say 'Yes! Yes! Yes!'"

Alan Pollack's writing about Beatles songs is, of course, a joy to read.

[selenak]

Paul's dad sounds very endearing in most stories told of him, and I so love that one. *imagines She Loves You with "yes!yes!yes!"*

Alan Pollack's Beatles commentaries are awesome, even though I disagree with him about the Spector version of The Long and Winding Road. :)

[agent_bob]

Great post. Do you know where I can find the Let it Be transcript?

[selenak]

Doug Sulpy's book has the lot, albeit in indirect speech, for copyright reasons presumably. And there are several direct versions online in excerpts, which I would track down and link if my hotel online connection weren't so bad. (I reviewed Sulpy and quoted; try the "beatles" or "book review" tag of my journal.)