The Private Lives of The Beatles.

[Dax]

I have been a Beatles fan since the first time I heard "Love me Do" way back when. I never bothered with finding out what they were like when they were out of the public eye. To me their music was all I needed to know about John, Paul, George & Ringo.

Then a few weeks ago I happened upon a book "The Love You Make: An Insider's Story of the Beatles" by Peter Brown & Steven Gaines published in 1983. Brown was a personal assistant to their manager Brian Epstein, a senior executive at Apple Corps and was best man at John's wedding to Yoko Ono in March 1969.

The book deals with the personal lives of the Fab Four and I was really surprised to find out what absolute bastards they actually were. They treated most women with contempt and cheated on their wives from day one. John Lennon was the worst of the bunch while Paul and George weren't far behind. Ringo wasn't even a good drummer according to the book and apparently Paul was a better drummer than him.

While his wife was away, John let Yoka Ono move into his house while he was still married to Cynthia and he and Yoko had the audacity to be sitting around in their dressing gowns when she returned.

While visiting Ringo, George blurted out that he was in love with Ringo's wife Maureen and a week later George and Maureen slept together. Paul kept his girlfriend Jane Asher locked away so that she wouldn't leave him for another man.

I'll always love their music but as human beings they really sucked big in my opinion.

[mallyboppa]

They were Just People !

Bob Dylan had something to say about "Idols "

Woody Guthrie was my last idol
he was the last idol
because he was the first idol
I’d ever met
face t’ face
that men are men
shatterin’ even himself
as an idol
an’ that men have reasons
for what they do
an’ what they say
an’ every action can be questioned
leavin’ no command
untouched an’ took for granted
obeyed an’ bowed down to
forgettin’ your own natural instincts
(for there’re a million reasons
in the world
an’ a million instincts
runnin’ wild
an’ it’s none too many times
the two shall meet)
the unseen idols create the fear
an’ trample hope when busted
Woody never made me fear
and he didn’t trample any hopes
for he just carried a book of Man
an’ gave it t’ me t’ read awhile
an’ from it I learned my greatest lesson

you ask “how does it feel t’ be an idol?”
it’d be silly of me t’ answer, wouldn’t it . . .?

[Audiogen]

They were Just People !

I thought Paul was a Walrus?

[mallyboppa]

Eric Burdon was the Eggman

[Din Djarin]

I thought Paul was a Walrus?

Walruses (Walrussians?) are people too!