📷 Paul McCartney Photographs 1963-64: #EyesOfTheStorm 📷
In a major exhibition, the @npglondon will display an extraordinary archive of rediscovered and never-before-seen photographs taken by Paul at the height of Beatlemania.
28 June – 1 October 2023: https://t.co/yaEoPSkGVe
some postcards sent by paul mccartney to ringo starr.
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"paul was always very good at postcarding. and they 𝒶𝓁𝓁 knew that i love postcards!"
paul's "outrageous big check" suit wasn't ready by the time of the event.
"so, i went to the party with the cotton and the stitching showing, and everyone said, ‘your suit’s not finished.’ i said, ‘yeah, i know. great, huh?’"
- paul mccartney, wingspan, 2002
each of the invitees to 'the ball', the launch party for wings' debut album 'wild life', recieved this handwritten invitation from paul mccartney
📍the ball was held on 8 november 1971 at the empire ballroom in leicester square, london
"i would come back from a run with a poem to share and having listened linda would say 'what a mind'
though the lines may not have been supreme, she wasn't merely being kind. she meant what she said.
it's going to make a man feel good, that kind of a thing."
- paul mccartney
the fool in tarot is portrayed as a young man standing on a cliff, holding a white rose - symbol of freedom from desires, in one hand; and in the other a small bundle, representing untapped collective knowledge.
it represents new beginnings, optimism, curiosity for knowledge.
paul mccartney on 'the fool on the hill':
marijke of 'the fool' used to read my fortune in tarot cards, which i wasn't too keen on because i tend to dwell on that kind of stuff.
it always used to come out as 'the fool' and i used to say "oh dear.."
i wrote 'the fool on the hill' out of that experience, about a person who's not taken seriously because he seems silly on the surface. the idea appealed to me.
[source: many years from now, barry miles]