It's queer! by Nelson Motta (O Pasquim)

"o pasquim" was a brazilian alternative weekly, known for its paradoxical and satirical nature, published between 1969 and 1991. it was recognized for its engagement with the brazilian counterculture scene of the 1960s and for its role in opposing the military regime. in 1970, the magazine published an article about john and paul (and brian) affair, written by nelson motta. here's the translation (with adicional notes) 👇

OMG, this is cannon for me.

(and ofc racism and suicide jokes are cringe)

And they say McLennon truthers appeared in 21th century lmao.

— St. Regis Hotel Interview, September 5, 1971 (via swaying-daisies)

Another example of their signatures merging. John Paulennon McCartney

Rolling Stone is getting McLennon

#75 "Dear Friend"

“Dear Friend” was an unsentimentally blunt pipes-of-peace offering, with the plea, “I’m in love with a friend of mine.” (Did he mean Linda or John? He undoubtedly meant both.) 

This is a comment made by a woman in an old forum, who said she spoke to an industry insider. I have read many similar comments (and I myself have been in contact with someone who claimed to have spoken to a couple of people who were once close to the Beatles) that have said that John and Paul's relationship was an open secret in the music industry. Maybe that's why Howard Stern is often asking Paul a lot of uncomfortable questions about John, and even suggested that "Maybe I'm Amazed" was written for John, lol.

do you ever think about how john wrote "everyday we used to make it love / why can't we be making love nice and easy" followed by the lines "it's time to spread our wings and fly / don't let another day go by, my love" and in a song where he also mentions taking off alone like they used to do in the early days... wild

Q: I always found it interesting that John got married a month after you.

Paul: I think we spurred each other into marriage. They were very strong together which left me out of the picture, so then I got together with Linda and we got our own kind of strength. I think again that they were a little bit peeved that we got married first. (October, 1986)

there's a story.

it's a sad one, this.

it starts - well, it's hard to say when it starts. maybe it started way before music was even a thing. maybe it started before time itself. maybe it doesn't have a start: suddenly everything just fell into place when those two teenagers sat in front of each other with guitars on their laps and played music for the first time. but, on record, one can say it really starts to be told out loud in the middle, towards the end. that's when it starts to truly be spoken of, sang of, wide open, undeniable. almost a cry for attention, for communication, "look, now i'm going to sing about this", because when everything else fails, they had music - they have always had music.

so it starts right before the big plot twist, before the season finale, before the breakup. or it starts right after that. nobody truly knows, really. real life stories are not divided in seasons, and this one is real. very, very real, very human. either way, this story starts to be told with two of us. it starts towards the end, but cries for the beginning, for the very beginning.

and then, it goes on, it goes on to plead, to beg, scream, to desperately reach:

the story sees confusion, it sees defeat, it sees someone who wants. someone who is trying, but failing because they don't know the way. someone who needs, who desperately needs, but doesn't know how to ask. they were on their way back home, but now, they've lost the way, they can't find the road. or, rather, the road is there, but it's all foggy. where's home? but they're trying. the many ways i've tried.

oh! darling this, dear friend that, who gives a fuck when 16 year old paul mccartney was putting out things like in spite of all the danger, his whole little boy heart out like

No cause literally. In Spite of All the Danger is a mclennon song and you can’t convince me otherwise

Does Paul think he got away with "This One" being about John and no one knowing? I'm just curious. Like I know people who aren't idiots realize it, but does PAUL himself think he pulled on over on fans.

And like..."This One" is way more direct.

It literally says "I do" in the first verse. Like if you squint, "Here Today" could be platonic, if you really squint, but "This One" just straight up can't be. It's completely and utterly romantic. And it reuses lyrics from "Here Today"

I just...

I really wonder how Paul would get out of this one if asked directly.

This morning my friend @accio-johnlennon sent me this beautiful video, and I nearly fell of the chair, so I thought I had to share it with you all, writing a bit about the song before.

‘Call me back again’ is a huge mclennon song, Paul wrote it in 1976, after he and John had the ‘lost weekend’ and got in touch again. Every word in this song is about John, if you watch the videoclip you can notice it’s about Paul’s teenage years, and he sings that every night he called someone:

Well When I, When I Was Just A Little Baby Boy Every Night I Would Call Your Number Brought Me Joy.

He even pronounces ‘joy’ as  John, a little trick he used in ‘Oh!darling’ too with the whole ‘Oh!darling/oh!johnny’ thing.

And he sings, desperately, that he wants that person to call back again. Now, who’s someone who Paul knew since he was a kid and in 1976 wanted to ‘call back again’? 

AND, In this video he even whispers ‘John’ when singing:

Oh - I’ve Called Your Name, John.

Paul sang “I’ve called your name, John,” in 1976. Let’s talk about John’s 1974 release #9 Dream. What lyric does that one have in it, you ask? 

Somebody call out my name (John). 

That’s an amazing catch @bakerstreetafternoon!

I’ve always believed that #9 Dream was about Paul, but never had anything concrete to back it up.  It’s all so speculative, but to me the whole song feels like them:

“so long ago” - self-explanatory

“I know, I know” - reference to another song of John’s written for Paul

“Two spirits dancing so strange” - possible reference to John & Paul’s mad dances

“I believe, yes I believe” - I always took this as a retraction/apology for John’s previous I don’t believe in Beatles line from God.

“music touching my soul” - I mean.  Music touching his soul.  GAH!

Also, the fact that (according to May Pang -  Thank you, May!) the song came to John in an actual dream, and we know dreaming about each other is a big thing with John and Paul.  

And finally that John dismissed this as a piece of nothing in 1980 adds to my belief that it was probably about Paul!  ;)

Oh my God @sweating-cobwebs! I forgot that he later dismissed #9 Dream, because he was really invested in it while he was recording and mixing it. Paul and John saw each other in California in May 1974, John wrote #9 Dream shortly after and started recording it in July. 

This just adds fuel to my crackpot theory that a lot of the songs he later dismissed as “nothing” are about Paul, including “It’s Only Love.”