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John Lennon meets Paul Mccartney, 6th July 1957

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John Lennon in every Beatles movies

I love his freckles and I always draw him with little dots on his nose and cheeks 💜

Paul’s freckles! He’s got them, sadly mostly unseen by 60s cameras.

Sketches of John Lennon by his fellow student Helen Anderson at the Liverpool College of Art | 1959 © Helen Anderson

"Bit scruffy. I think he was wearing checked shirts in those days. Tight trousers, pulled in. Either old cords or something. Tony Curtis in the front, D.A. at the back. Buddy Holly glasses. He was very spotty at the time. He certainly wasn't a scouser. No, he wasn't. And obviously he had quite an informed home education from Mimi because he was quite eloquent in his language. He was bright but he was lazy." ~ Helen Anderson

Paul came across in 1963 as a fun-loving, footloose bachelor who turned on his charm to devastating effect when he wanted to manipulate rivals, colleagues or women he fancied. (...) He had enormous powers of persuasion within The Beatles. He would get his own way by subtlety and suaveness where John resorted to shouting and bullying. John may have been the loudest Beatle but Paul was the shrewdest. I watched him twist the others round to his point of view in all sorts of contentious situations, some trivial, some more significant, some administrative, some creative. George told me that when he joined Paul and John in the line-up of The Quarry Men in 1958, Paul was already acting as though he was the decision-maker in the group. According to George: "I knew perfectly well that this was John's band and John was my hero, my idol, but from the way Paul talked he gave every indication that he was the real leader, the one who dictated what The Quarry Men would do and where they should be going as a group." This made sense to me because, from what I saw for myself in 1963 and later, Paul's opinions and ideas tended to prevail with The Beatles, particularly on matters of musical policy such as whether a new number was worth recording or whether the running order for the group's stage show needed altering slightly. I didn't see any of the others resist him. They seemed to welcome Paul getting his way by winning arguments with John. When Paul wanted something badly enough from Brian Epstein he would speak softly, wooing the man rather than intimidating him. Epstein's defences would melt away as Paul looked him straight in the eye. In terms of song lyrics, Paul's idea of romantic was 'Michelle', John's was 'Norwegian Wood'.

John, Paul, George, Ringo & Me: The Real Beatles Story, Tony Barrow (2005)

J/P sketch from today

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Sooo how are we feeling beatles people? 👀 are we feeling good, are we feeling normal, not even just a tiny bit insane right now? 🫠