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John, Paul, George & Ringo in their own words with illuminating quotes by those who loved and worked with them Fan Account

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The Beatles Speak @thebeatlesspeak.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
George - “With our love, we could save the world." Ringo - “I think we should have understanding and love and peace. I mean, peace and love has been my situation." #globalbeatlesday #thebestles
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The Beatles Speak @thebeatlesspeak.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
John - “If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that's a problem. Peace and love are eternal.” Paul - “I still believe that love is all you need. I don't know a better message than that." #globalbeatlesday #thebeatles
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The Beatles Speak @thebeatlesspeak.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Ringo with Rory Storm & The Hurricanes #ringostarr
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The Beatles Speak @thebeatlesspeak.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Photos of Paul captured by Dezo Hoffman #paulmccartney
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The Beatles Speak @thebeatlesspeak.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
We used to go down Dungeon Lane to the beach where the lighthouse was, on the Mersey shoreline. Two lads who were tougher than me robbed me of my watch there one time. I was ten. They lived in the next street - their garden backed onto ours - 1/2 #paulmccartney
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The Beatles Speak @thebeatlesspeak.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Beatles Pins #thebeatles
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The Beatles Speak @thebeatlesspeak.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
At the beginning I was annoyed [with John], jealous because of Yoko, and afraid about the breakup of a great musical partnership. It took me a year to realize they were in love." [Paul] #mclennon #paulmccartney #johnlennon #yokoono
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The Beatles Speak @thebeatlesspeak.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
"Paul can be very cynical and much more biting than me when he's driven to it. Of course, he's got more patience, but he can carve people up in no time at all, when he's pushed. He hits the nail on the head and doesn't beat about the bush, does Paul." John #paulmccartney #johnlennon #thebeatles
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The Beatles Speak @thebeatlesspeak.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
G: Maybe we should have a divorce. P: Well, I said that at the last meeting. But it’s getting nearer, you know? J: Who’d have the children? P: Dick James J: Oh yeah #getback25 #thebeatles One of my favourite interactions for the quick wit of J & P
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The Beatles Speak @thebeatlesspeak.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
“I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak. So I’ve been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I’m one of those people.” JOHN LENNON #johnlennon #thebeatles #beatles #beatlessky
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The Beatles Speak @thebeatlesspeak.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
“The past is gone and the future might not even be, the only thing we ever experience is the now, I try to enjoy the minute." George Harrison #georgeharrison #thebeatles
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The Beatles Speak @thebeatlesspeak.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
“My occupation is syncopation” Ringo Starr #ringostarr #thebeatles
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John Mc 𓅛🍻 @johnmcnwoods.mu.social · 08/04/2025
Wow! #TheBeatles
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The Beatles Speak @thebeatlesspeak.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Paul: "Haven't you written anything else?" John: "No.” Paul: "We're gonna be faced with a crisis." John: "When I'm up against the wall, Paul, you'll find I'm at my best." Paul: "Yeah, I know, John, I know… But I wish you'd come up with the goods." Get Back Sessions 8th Jan 1969 #thebeatles
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The Beatles Speak @thebeatlesspeak.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
I haven’t got the patience to practise to become a “perfect” guitarist you know. I’m more interested in the combination of my voice and the guitar I know and to write songs than I am in the instrument. So I never go through a day hardly without playing it whether I’m performing or not you know. John
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The Beatles Speak @thebeatlesspeak.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
I reading all the lyrics of Beatles’ songs and finding, or imagining, all kinds of hidden meanings. One phrase in particular staggered me: ‘keeping her face in a jar by the door,’ from ‘Eleanor Rigby’. This seemed to me pure surrealism. Alan Aldridge, The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics #thebeatles
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The Beatles Speak @thebeatlesspeak.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
“I remember going into the studio with him and watching how he worked. It was like a quilt—he just wove things together. I’d sit back and go, ‘You couldn’t buy this. What an opportunity.’” Joe English in The McCartney Legacy 2 #paulmccartney @mccartneylegacy.bsky.social
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The Beatles Speak @thebeatlesspeak.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
‘People have told me that the album's title indicates I like to struggle with things in my life. But I've never seen my life that way. The record's full of songs and words. That's all. At least, that's all I was trying to do. I don't any feel different now than I ever have 1/2… #johnlennon #Beatles
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The Beatles Speak @thebeatlesspeak.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
“Mind Games was actually a book that somebody sent me, which I wrote an intro to: 'I have read three important and revolutionary books in the last three years: Yoko Ono's Grapefruit, Arthur Janov's Primal Scream, and now Mind Games” - John #johnlennon #mindgames
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The Beatles Speak @thebeatlesspeak.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Breaking normal proceedings to share with you this great Glynn Johns interview. Chatty and very informative about who he has worked with and his recording methods. Enjoy! youtu.be/UZ8BA25T5GA?...
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Glyn Johns: Recording The Beatles, The Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Eagles...
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The Beatles Speak @thebeatlesspeak.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
“The Beatles exist apart from myself. I am not really Beatle George. Beatle George is like a suit or shirt that I once wore on occasion, and until the end of my life, people may see that shirt and mistake it for me.” George Harrison #georgeharrison #thebeatles
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Beatles Books Podcast @beatlesbookspod.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Mick Fleetwood talks about the closeness of Lennon and McCartney, 1990.
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The Beatles Speak @thebeatlesspeak.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
"I'm very good at forgetting who I am, because as far as I'm concerned Paul McCartney is a name given at birth and at the beginning of The Beatles he split off into a celebrity and I remained as me." May 1997 #paulmccartney #happybirthdaypaulmccartney
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The Beatles Speak @thebeatlesspeak.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
“Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I'd rather be out playing.” #paulmccartney #happybirthdaypaulmccartney
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The Beatles Speak @thebeatlesspeak.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
“One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.” #paulmccarntey #happybirthdaypaulmccartney
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The Beatles Speak @thebeatlesspeak.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
I'm about halfway through McCartney Legacy Volume 2 - having just read about Jeff Cummin's artwork on Wings Over America so I was delighted to see this on the interweb this morning @mccartneylegacy.bsky.social #paulmccartney #WingsOverAmerica
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The Beatles Speak @thebeatlesspeak.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Celebrating Paul McCartney’s 83rd birthday with quotes throughout the day “I don’t work at being ordinary” #paulmccartney #macca #happybirthdaypaul #thebeatles
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The Beatles Speak @thebeatlesspeak.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Paul and Brian #brianwilson #paulmccartney #thebeatles
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The Beatles Speak @thebeatlesspeak.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
"I was approached to do a film script for the Beatles. I said it would have to be an absolutely original script. Paul McCartney said do whatever you like … we finally get this little note from Brian Epstein, that it wasn’t suitable for the Beatles … by page 25 they had committed adultery....... 1/2
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The Beatles Speak @thebeatlesspeak.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
"Most people have come to know the time that John Lennon & I spent together as The Lost Weekend. I am always surprised by how many people are under the impression that our time together lasted only a single weekend" - May Pang #johnlennon #maypang
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The Beatles Bible 🍏 @beatlesbible.com · 13/06/2025
13 June 1964: The Beatles perform two shows in Adelaide, Australia. John Lennon: "Australia was a high moment, like the first time in America… There were more people came to see us there than anywhere. I think the whole of Australia was there." www.beatlesbible.com/1964/06/13/l...
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The Beatles live: Centennial Hall, Adelaide
The Beatles played their second night of shows at the Centennial Hall, Adelaide, Australia, on 13 June 1964. They performed two sets, as on the previous day, each to 3,000 people. Around 4,000 fans we...
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The Beatles Speak @thebeatlesspeak.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
“I love the Beatles. What more can I say? I’m not gonna lie to you. I love ’em. They make me happy. And I think they were the best, and still are.”  Liam Gallagher #thebeatles #beatles
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The Beatles Speak @thebeatlesspeak.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
#thebeatles #georgeharrison
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The Beatles Speak @thebeatlesspeak.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Artwork by Paul McCartney
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The Beatles Speak @thebeatlesspeak.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
‘He's like my professor, Professor Paul. Yeah, we've been working on stuff for little chunks of time over the past couple of years. He also helped seal the deal for me in getting the Stones gig.’ Andrew Watt on Paul McCartney, Rolling Stone 2025 #paulmccartney
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The Beatles Speak @thebeatlesspeak.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
I'm listening to John and Paul: A Love Story in Songs – 'The… on Everand. Check it out: www.everand.com/audiobook/84... A fresh, revitalising, trope-busting read. #thebeatles #johnlennon #paulmccartney @ianleslie.bsky.social
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John and Paul by Ian Leslie (Audiobook) - Read free for 30 days
'The first new Beatles story in decades - and the one that will make your heart burst.' CAITLIN MORAN 'Ian Leslie has done the impossible, and breathed new life into one of the world's most studied b...
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John Lennon @johnlennonofficial.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
John Lennon and Yoko Ono Debut on Multiple Charts www.forbes.com/sites/hughmc... This week, Power to the People earns an impressive start on three U.K. charts, crashing inside the top 10 on all of them at the same time.
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John Lennon Charts A New Top 10 Single, 45 Years After His Death
John Lennon’s Power to the People live EP debuts in the top 10 on three U.K. charts, earning the rock, Yoko Ono and The Plastic Ono Band new smashes.
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The Beatles Speak @thebeatlesspeak.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
“Sgt Pepper is special for me because I was born on 29 May & it came out on 1 June. So when I was being born in St Mary’s Manchester it was being played on hospital radio. It still contains some of the greatest Beatles songs like A Day in the Life & Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.” NOAL GALLAGHER
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The Beatles Speak @thebeatlesspeak.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
‘Talking is the slowest form of communicating anyway.Music is much better.’ John Lennon #johnlennon
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The Beatles Speak @thebeatlesspeak.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
“I took one look on the Ed Sullivan Show and it was ‘Fuck school. This makes it.’ I memorized every Beatles song and went to Shea Stadium and screamed right along with all those chicks.”  Joe Walsh #thebeatles #beatles
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The Beatles Speak @thebeatlesspeak.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
“Music is like a psychiatrist. You can tell your guitar things that you can't tell people. And it will answer you with things people can't tell you.” Paul McCartney #paulmccartney #thebeatles #beatles
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The Beatles Speak @thebeatlesspeak.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
‘I had no schooling before I joined The Beatles and no schooling after The Beatles. Life is a great education.’ Ringo Starr Anthology 1995 #ringostarr #thebeatles #beatles
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The Beatles Speak @thebeatlesspeak.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
'I declare that The Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species, a young race of laughing freemen.' Timothy O'Leary #thebeatles #beatles
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The Beatles Speak @thebeatlesspeak.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
“The Beatles were what raised me. My love for music, I feel 95 per cent owes to the Beatles and Paul. It's insane to think about.” Billie Eilish NME Magazine
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The Beatles Speak @thebeatlesspeak.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
“Watching from the wings, I was transfixed by this group performing their second single, ‘Please Please Me’. It was a pop epiphany. The Beatles didn’t look that different from the other acts – they were all wearing suits and ties – but they exuded an attitude that was blunt and honest 🧵… #thebeatles
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The Beatles Speak @thebeatlesspeak.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
As read in McLegacy V2 (my shorthand) John did actually call Paul in New Orleans to say he wasn’t coming. Hasn’t Paul always claimed that he didn’t believe John would even consider it? #paulmccartney #johnlennon @mccartneylegacy.social.bsky.com
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The Beatles Speak @thebeatlesspeak.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
“We were the army that never was. And the music came out of that. My picture of it now is there was a ship going to discover the new world, and the Beatles were in the crow’s nest, on the same ship, and we just said ‘Land Ho!’” John Lennon #johnlennon #thebeatles #beatles
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The Beatles Speak @thebeatlesspeak.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
He breaks all the rules. He invents such unusual chord changes that [the] first time you hear them you think, ‘Did he really mean that?’ His writing is so simple yet so meaningful, it’s good, logical music 1/2 ….. Tony Dorsey, Trombonist and Arranger Venus and Mars #paulmccartney
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The Beatles Speak @thebeatlesspeak.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
“They'd come on stage, and over the last couple of minutes, just before the curtains opened and they met the public, well, there'd be five of us, just the five of us on stage. And that was like a sacred moment for me. And that made it all worthwhile” Mal Evans #thebeatles #beatles #malevans
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The Beatles Speak @thebeatlesspeak.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
“They [John and Paul] seemed like giddy school chums. Hugging, patting each other on the back… like high-school buddies who hadn’t seen each other for a long time and really liked each other.” Bob Gruen on the 1975 Christmas meeting between L/M’s #johnlennon #paulmccartney #thebeatles
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