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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[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!

[beagle_agent]

Yes, in this one it is obvious already which genes were stronger in him. It is always interesting to see two children in comparison....I found out that most of the time one child tends to the father's side and the other to the mother's.
So Mike got mother Mary's looks...would be interesting to find out if mannerism, mimic or body language, even tastes are the same. You won't believe how much is in the genes...I can see it in my daughter, it is not only copying or a question of education/puerile imprinting,it is really in the genes somehow.

Astrid