This made me think of you 😊
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"A shoe-less Lennon opened the door and ushered me into a large sitting room. He was on the telephone to his son Julian and gestured for me to sit on the sofa alongside. After telling Julian he had to go since "there's a fella here come to take me picture," he asked if I didn't mind if we watched the telly for a bit first. The program John was most interested in was a live transmission of Queen Elizabeth's daughter Anne's marriage to Captain Mark Phillips at Westminster Cathedral in London. Sitting alongside John Lennon with our feet up on the coffee table watching the then shaky live pictures on the TV it was a far cry from the madness of Beatlemania. After about ten minutes he said, "come on, do you fancy a cup of real English tea?" after an enthusiastic yes on my part he said "then we can get these daft 'happy-snaps' out of the way." What a joy."
— Michael Brennan about photographing John Lennon in Los Angeles on November 14, 1973.
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John Lennon & Paul McCartney in Plymouth, England | 13 November 1963 © Jeff Hochberg
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John and I didn’t often talk about the Beatles, largely because it was the one subject other people, particularly in the media, were always asking him about. He’d been answering questions about the group’s history for so long, rehashing its mythology over and over again, that by now the subject bored the hell out of him. “It was like a marriage,” he once told me. “I enjoyed the beginning more than I enjoyed the end, when we were doing those live shows and nobody could hear the music over the screaming. Everyone else was having a good time yelling and shouting, but we were suffering up there. We were just going through the motions. We couldn’t hear our own selves singing.”
Excerpt From ‘We All Shine On’, Elliot Mintz
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Cher: The night I took a drunken John Lennon to the Playboy mansion - and he stripped stark naked in front of me in the infamous secret Grotto
Walking into an Italian restaurant in Los Angeles one Sunday evening I bumped into John Lennon and his friend Harry Nilsson and they asked if I could take them to Hugh Hefner's house for movie night.
'John's dying to see the Playboy Mansion,' Harry pleaded.
Hef held parties all the time, many of which became notorious as drunken orgies with some of the Playmates, but his Sunday movie nights were calm and casual affairs for friends to enjoy cocktails and dinner before watching a new release.
I didn't have anything else going on that night in 1974 so I agreed to drive them to Hef's and realised too late that they were drunker than I'd thought. There were about 50 people there and just as the movie was about to start, the two of them put on aristocratic English accents and started chanting, 'Hef! Hef! Hef!' except with the accents it sounded like 'Huff! Huff! Huff!'.
Mortified, I could tell Hef was starting to get annoyed.
'Stop that!' I told them. 'Come with me.' It was like I became the mother and they were two 14-year-old boys.
Giggling and falling over each other, John and Harry followed me out into the grounds. Sitting them down inside the infamous Grotto – it was like a huge cave that one end of the swimming pool went into – I went to find a drink and when I came back they were standing in the middle of the Grotto naked but still in the water, thank God.
'This is not pretty what I'm seeing,' I said when they started to emerge from the pool. 'Guys, please do not come out.'
I was trying not to laugh, but it was impossible not to as they threatened to wander around the mansion naked. It took me ages to get them back in their clothes. It was like herding drunks.
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Pattie Boyd on herself, George, John and Cynthia being spiked with LSD-laced coffee by their dentist, John Riley
Our dentist, John Riley, had turned us on to acid. He and his girlfriend invited John, Cynthia, George, and me to dinner at his house in Hyde Park Square one evening sometime in 1965. [...] We had a lovely meal, plenty to drink, and at the end George said, “Let’s go.” We were planning to see some friends playing at the Pickwick Club. John Riley’s girlfriend jumped to her feet. “You can’t,” she said. “You haven’t had any coffee yet. It’s ready, I’ve made it - and it’s delicious.” We sat down again and drank the coffee she was insistent we should have. But then we were really keen to get away and John Lennon said, “We must go now. These friends of ours are going to be on soon. It’s their first night, we’ve got to go and see them.” And John Riley said, “You can’t leave.” “What are you talking about?” said John Lennon. “You’ve just had LSD.” “No, we haven’t.” “Yes, you have,” said our host. “It was in the coffee.” John Lennon was absolutely furious. “How dare you fucking do this to us?” he said.
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March 22, 1974 - May Pang, John Lennon and Mal Evans attend the Los Angeles premiere of 'The Rocky Horror Show' stage musical at The Roxy Theatre.
I can’t find the interview that I read it in yesterday and I know that stories change over time and that a slightly different account shows up Loving John but if May Pang is telling the truth and John actually told her that he wished that Sean was his and her baby and not his and Yoko’s then JAIL JOHN, JAIL FOR ONE BILLION ZILLION YEARS.
GET A JOB! STAY AWAY FROM HER!
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John, however, obviously couldn’t just waltz into FAO Schwarz, especially right before Christmas Eve, when it was packed elbow-to-elbow with shoppers. But one year, when Sean was barely a toddler, John asked me to call the store and see if they could shut down for an hour or two so that he could do a little last-minute gift buying. Not surprisingly, the management was not crazy about the idea. Closing its doors in the middle of their busiest sales season so that one celebrity—even a former Beatle—could purchase a few thousand dollars’ worth of presents was not smart business practice. But they did offer to let John into the store after its normal closing time.
I happened to be in New York that Christmas and joined John for his FAO Schwarz after-hours excursion. John was about thirty-eight at the time, but the minute we stepped through the door, he dropped about three decades. He literally became a kid again.
As part of the decorations, there was a giant toy train track suspended from the ceiling and snaking around the store—it must have been “fifty yards long—with big, chunky Lionel locomotives huffing and puffing along its rails.
“That! Let’s get that!” John exclaimed the second he saw it.
“And where would you set that up in the Dakota?” I asked him. “The dining room?”
“Okay,” he said, dejected. “Maybe not that.”
Excerpt From, ‘We All Shine On’, Elliot Mintz
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NEVER SEEN BEFORE photo of John Lennon at the Regency Hotel drinking a Dr. Pepper, taken by May Pang, 1970.
"Being both nervous and bold, I picked up my camera and aimed it at John. When he realized I was trying to take his photo, he looked at me and smiled with his can of Dr. Pepper. We were at the Regency Hotel in NYC." — May Pang.
cryptid......
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John Lennon & Paul McCartney on the set of television special The Music of Lennon & McCartney at Granada Studios in Manchester, England | 2 November 1965
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We were looking for Ringo, but we realized he must have come back here.
My Funky Fresh Blorbo !!!!!!!!
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"John learned to play upside down too because of me"
Photo showing George playing Paul’s bass upside down. The photo is from the Cavern on April 5, 1962. Pete is singing, Paul is on drums and George is on Paul’s Hofner bass.
I had to learn (to play guitar) backwards. I can play a right-handed guitar a bit, just enough for parties when people are hopefully drunk,” said Paul talking about the early days of the Beatles.
He explained that the other guys wouldn’t let him restring their guitars so he had to learn to play their guitars upside down.
“It’s funny. John learned to play upside down too because of me – mine was the only other guitar around for him if he broke a string or didn’t have his and he got pretty good playing mine,” said Paul.
“And when John wasn’t there, I’d pick up his guitar and play it upside down.”
- Paul McCartney, interview w/ Tom Mulhern. (July, 1990)
#I knew that Paul learned to play upside down #but I didn't know John did too #that's really sweet #effort goes a long way
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This rare photograph was discovered on a negative given to the owner of “The Beatles Shop” on Mathew Street in Liverpool: The Beatles (with Pete Best) and some fans, before or after a gig, presumably on July 13, 1961, at St. John's Hall in Tuebrook, Liverpool. This was their first hometown concert after having returned from playing Hamburg's Top Ten Club.
“Before Hamburg, we didn’t have a clue. We’d never really done any gigs. We’d played at a few parties, but we’d never had a drummer longer than one night at a time. So we were very ropy, just young kids. When we arrived in Hamburg, we started playing eight hours a day - like a full workday. We did that for a total of 11 or 12 months, on and off over a two year period. It was pretty intense. At first we played the music of our heroes - Little Richard, Fats Domino, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, the Everly Brothers, Ray Charles, Carl Perkins - anything we’d ever liked. But we still needed more to fill those eight hour sets. Eventually, we had to stretch and play a lot of stuff that we didn’t know particularly well. Suddenly, we were even playing movie themes, like ‘A Taste of Honey’ or ‘Moonglow,’ learning new chords, jazz voicings, the whole bit. Eventually, it all combined together to make something new and we found our own voice as as a band.” - George, Guitar World, 1992 (x)