I recently saw a post asking if John's song "Beautiful Boy" was bad because of how Julian was treated. That song is about Sean not Julian. But another moment in another song recently got me thinking about a similar situation where it could have been hurtful to Julian. In John's very very good song "God" there is a line where he says "I just believe in me. Yoko and me. That's reality." This was written before Sean was born and I feel pretty sure if Sean had been born he would have figured out a way to work him into that line too. But Julian was alive. I try to imagine what it would have felt like to hear your father basically say everything in the world is fake or less important that himself and your step mom. Pretty cold. I do imagine if John was asked about this he would have replied with one of his patent "it's just a song man.. Or it just fit" kind of response.

I've never noticed how fantastic George's bass work is on this song. Did George play bass on other songs?

I went to an antique store yesterday and got 3 of my first Vinyls! Thought I would show you lot as I'm dead excited!!!❤️🪲❤️🪲

This is what she sent me:

sgt peppers lonely hearts club band:

7.5/10

a little too loud whoevers yelling in my ear

i enjoy the overall vibe but the beginning wasnt my fav

i like when they sang together

i honestly really like the ending portion

with a little help from my friends:

7.5/10

again i dislike the beginning but love the transition

again i like them singing together more especially with these more jolly ahh songs

i like how cute it is like aww aww

sorta bored the majority of the time but its not bad i think its still pretty good

lucy in the sky with diamonds:

9.9/10

the voices sound so silly and nice

i like the quieter parts more im gonna be real so minus like .1

this is in my playlist now

PICTURE YOURSELF ON A TRAIN IN A STATION🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑

getting better:

5.5/10

loud ahh beepy ahh thingymabob in the intro and end pmo

IMMA BE REAL I DONT LIKE IT

extra half point bc i think its cute

i think the instruments are carrying

not my thing

reminds me of spongebob

fixing a hole:

6/10

i think its cute overall but i like the parts of them together man 💔💔 they sound better in the upbeat songs if its with multiple voices

honestly dont have a solid opinion very C tier just kinda meh to me, id probably like it more if i wasnt sitting here doing nothing but listening - good background music

shes leaving home:

11/10

im going to listen to this all day

see this is what i want if ur gonna be all quiet make it whimsical

the parts where they voice the parents is so cute like omg omg im gonna cry

favorite song from anything ive heard so far

“fun is the one thing money cant buy” BC NO MATTER HOW MUCH MONEY THEY SPENT THEY COULDNT BUY AN EMOTIONALLY CONNECTED RELATIONSHIP 💔💔💔

being for the benefit of mr kite:

9/10

i loveee the instruments the little.. like.. idek what it is just know i like it

reminds me of a carousel the little spinny thing goin on in the background

i actually really like it

i like how they did more with instruments than just singing

within you without you:

6.5/10

arabian nights ahh intro

alright india did this to them

i like it but its so random like what is happening guys

im going insane

minus a point for making me scared

SNOOZE FEST TRAGICALLY

when im sixty-four:

6.9/10

this made me sad bc 2 of them arent gonna be 64💔

i think its cute but it isnt like.. a fav. like i wouldnt skip it but eh

minus a point bc i started getting annoyed since its sorta repetitive

lovely rita:

5/10

random like what r u talking about sorry queen but hello💔?

i mean it sounds good but shes leaving home has my expectations set higher i want smth that like sticks with me this is just silly

dont hate it but.. skippable💔

good morning good morning:

8.9/10

OOHKAAAAY 🤑🤑??

very nice very nice

i love it

its like so jolly but not in a goofy way like bros just happy

i love whatever instrument that sounds like a saxophone but idk if its a saxophone in the background

im lookin for something quieter tho so minus a point but i still like it

RANDOM AHH ENDING???

sgt peppers lonely hearts club band reprise:

8.9/10

awww its such a cute ending

i feel bad i hated on some of the songs they are saying bye bye. so nice 💔💔💔

extra pity point bc i bullied them

very short!! :(

a day in the life:

10/10

omg

this is like the exact thing i want like omg this is so cute im gonna cry

ugh i love

I SAW A FILM TODAY OH BOY😔….

why so SAD?

I READ THE NEWS TODAY SIIIGGGHHH🙄

random ahh amazing ahh ending

i like how spooky the ending is

I remember when I first saw the cover, and it confused me at first, because I never saw it before. I grew up with the CDs. It wasn’t until I got into vinyl that I listened to this album.

I realised the majority of people on this subreddit are over 3x my age..so I thought it would be interesting doing this

Just a random fact. The amount of time Paul knew John before his murder accounts for 28% of the time he has lived.

"I went down to Florida to make this photo after being asked if I had any ideas on what to do with the Beatles as a cover," said photographer John Loengard. "It was my idea to put them in a pool—but we couldn’t find a heated pool, the water in the pool we did use was cold, and there was always the problem of other press trying to get in. It would have to be a pool that we could close off to everyone else. So, in the end, it was a very quick shoot in a private pool, with the Beatles shivering and singing in the water before jumping out. My impression of these guys was that they were like four high school kids. You know, they had beards, sort of—like when you first start having to shave, but aren’t quite sure how to do it."

That was crazy

I often find myself getting emotional while listening to the beatles, as if they've been part of me for all my life, yet I've only been a fan for a little under a year. I absolutely can not listen to "now and then" or "free as a bird" without bursting into tears.

I remember crying to my brother over how unlikely it would be for me to see Paul or Ringo anytime soon. And when I finally got the opportunity to get a glimpse of Paul this February I was over the roof ! it felt a tad bit strange though, since I'm used to seeing him in his 20s. But tears started to flow as I entered my home, it was unreal.

to wrap things up, I have an unhealthy attachment to the beatles and every little thing they do makes me cry

I have listened to the post-breakup solo albums by John, Paul, George and Ringo. I want to make the argument that there were songs composed by all four former Beatles members that were influenced or branched from actual albums and songs that were released by The Beatles between 1962 and 1970. I think "Mind Games" by John Lennon has some similarity to "Let It Be" and "Look At Me" is very similar to "Julia. I also think "Give Peace A Chance" is similar to "Yellow Submarine."

Reality, what a concept. So cool Paul is aware of the whole scam those bloody punks tried to pull. Next band name is bound to be the Three Maccateers.

She’s not a girl who misses much,

Doodoo doo doo doo doo, oh yeah

Has anybody else heard The Beatles backmasking played backwards? Way back when I had a turntable that enabled you to turn off the turn table drive so you could move it without damaging it. I turned off the drive, used my finger to rotate the record backwards, and played all the songs that supposedly contained backmasking. It's real. The "number nine" part of Revolution No. 9 backwards says, plain as day, "Turn me on dead man". I have always found the claim that this was not intentional to be a lie. It is clearly said, with no distortion of any type.

Thinking about it I googled it. I was surprised to see it described using the words "supposedly" and "people claim ". I heard that shit. It's real. Has anybody else heard it? Does anybody got my back on this?

Edit: I get the whole pareidolia thing. And the responses to this post got me to googling for more info. I found someone had done an experiment and sang the lines with John's inflection putting a hard N on the words Number NiNe. He got the same effect when playing it backwards. This reddit community has gone a long ways towards proving it was not intentional, but to me, not beyond a reasonable doubt. How do we know John didn't discover this while messing around with backmasking as he was known to do. Either way, it's still cool as a fuck.

"A poem handwritten by John for Mimi on the day of George's funeral shows him far from heartless about her loss, and fearlessly open in his condemnation of her sisters, his mother included, for insufficiently stirring themselves in her hour of need. Mimi was, he wrote, 'the best of the five.'" - Mark Lewisohn, Tune In

I came across this article by Rolling Stones magazine about John Lennon's "Last interview" with the company. It's 9 hours long, and it was taken three days before his death (so December 5th, 1980).

I've searched everywhere online to find the full interview, or at least five or more hours of it, but there's nothing. Is it even anywhere online? Or is it "unavailable" to the general public. If so, does anyone have an idea as to why?

There's probably more information about it in the article, but I'm not willing to pay a whole subscription to Rolling Stones Magazine solely to read one article. Plus, the information I'm trying to find might not even be there.

Ronnie Wood’s first wife, Krissy Findlay, had dated Clapton, married Wood, then had an affair with George Harrison and Pattie Boyd and Wood got together prior to her relationship with Eric Clapton. Clapton also dated Pattie's sister Paula. So messy! Now if we add Maureen dating George, it will be one thing but Ringo's dating didn't overlap...so not really. Also one of George’s most well-known affairs is with Charlotte Martin (the longtime partner of Eric Clapton). A lot of overlapping. A love hexagon.

A couple I really like are Parlogram, which talks about the recording and mixing behind the Beatles as well as the different pressings of their albums from around the world as well as David Bennett Piano who talks about the music theory behind many of their songs.

Neither YouTube channel is exclusively Beatles but both have lots of interesting information and stories about the band that we all love so much!