The Fact That John And Paul Had A Modus Operandi For Getting People Out Of The Band By Making The Manager

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PAUL McCARTNEY in WINGS OVER THE WORLD (1979)

The Quarry Men’s banjo player, Rod Davis, recalls, “I had bought the banjo from my uncle and if he’d sold me his guitar, I might have been a decent enough guitarist to keep McCartney out of the band. I might have learnt guitar chords, I might not, and that was the big limitation really. McCartney could play the guitar like a guitar and we couldn’t, and let’s face it, a banjo doesn’t look good in a rock’n’ roll group. I only met Paul on one other occasion after the Woolton fête and it was at auntie Mimi’s a week or two later. He dropped in to hear us practising. From my point of view, I was the person he was replacing – it’s like Pete Best – you’re the guy who doesn’t know. Some things had gone on that I was unaware of.”

(Best of the Beatles: The sacking of Pete Best by Spencer Leigh, 2015)

John Lennon, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr during rehearsals for The Beatles' first appearance on Ready, Steady, Go, 4th October 1963. Part 1 (part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7, part 8, part 9, part 10)

With thanks to @i-am-the-oyster for bringing this video to my attention!

The Beatles in Stirling, Scotland. 30 April 1964

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I love the different Beatles members *checks notes* an eight-year-old boy, the ghost of a Victorian man, your mom and a woman whose rich husband just died under suspicious circumstances

WINGS backstage at Elstree Film Studios where they were rehearsing for their UK tour. September 1975.

we as a fandom really underexamine how often crushing loneliness is a recurring theme in paul’s songwriting