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The Beatles in Salzburg, Austria | 13 March 1965 © Alfred Strobel

“George told me once that I smelt like home. I got all paranoid, you know, thinking I smelt of fish and chip shops or dirty bars or something. But he said no, I just always smelt of home.” — Paul McCartney

“It used to be PaulnGeorge… as one word. They were the kids from the grammar school. That’s how we referred to them. For ages we didn’t even know George really, he was just ‘Paul’s mate’.” — Len Garry

“The papers try and stir things and act like there’s some kind of problem, but at the end of the day, I love him, he’s my mate and that’s all there is to it.” — George Harrison

“Paul and George always ganged up on people. Like Stuart. They could get pretty bitchy.” — John Lennon

“They used to spend all of their spare time together. Even the school holidays.” — Hunter Davis

“George didn’t mind slagging Paul off. But he HATED other people doing it.” — Tom Petty

Everyone always talks about a good thing coming to an end, as if life was over. But I'll be 40 when this interview comes out. Paul is 38. Elton John, Bob Dylan... we're all relatively young people. The game isn't over yet. Everyone talks in terms of the last record or the last Beatle concert... but, God willing, there are another 40 years of productivity to go.

John Lennon interviewed by David Sheff for Playboy, September 1980

The fact that it’s 45 years later and Paul, Elton and Bob are still performing kills me. You were right Johnny 🥺

I miss autumn and her beauty

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whatever . destroy my beatles

imagine co-owning a company with your boy bestie/creative partner and your employees end up calling you "[boy bestie]'s princess" how do you even live that one down

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Moonlit hill by George Davis

Paul by Linda, 1968

What I liked about Paul when I lived there in London [September and October 1968] was the books that were around and painting. Paul would say, ‘Let’s paint,’ and he and Ivan Vaughan would get paints and go down in the basement and the three of us would paint on the canvas. It was fun. Paul is so much more cerebral than people think, because he was quote ‘the cute Beatle’. I hate this ‘Was it John or was it Paul?’ thing because they were both talented. They were both artists. They are equal for number one.

(Linda McCartney in Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now by Barry Miles, 1997)

Linda by Paul, 1968