The McLennon Thread: what were The Beatles really about? (evidence presented for consideration)

i'm the most normal beatles fan in the US

just yesterday for me, what a track!

I have zero problems with the idea that perhaps the most famous and celebrated songwriting partnership in recorded history may have been more than a couple straight as an arrow lads "opening up to each other"

why anyone would care or if it matters at all is another question, but again, I do think that great music is very often hampered by interpersonal relationships that may or may not be sexual but are certainly very intimate in a way that is difficult to describe beyond swingers or a polygamist cult if it was also a public entertainment and a job and didn't necessarily involve genitalia...or something like that?

rock n roll is hard, sometimes VERY hard, wink wink also I am asexual so I hope this comes off more exasperated and tired than creepy

why anyone would care or if it matters at all is another question

You haven’t spent much time around Beatles fans nuts, have you? There’s a huge tendency to treat the music and the story as an intertwined whole (which they are ofc), especially when you get past the basic received narrative of like The Compleat Beatles or whatever. And for those people (of which I’m one, albeit not an obsessive partly due to the fact that I have a shit memory & so can’t keep all the nerdy details properly filed & partly because I know it doesn’t really matter & that nothing’s more of a drag than someone who bangs on & on about the goddamn Beatles) the knowledge that there’s a story behind the story — or multiple stories behind the story — that there’s more to discover about a band we thought we knew everything about — that matters & we care.

When the Let It Be doc came out, I tried texting a little about it with my uncle, who is a huge Beatles fan… I couldn’t really get him to engage with talking about the music, he was solely interested in all the little relationship details, the “flowerpot conversation,” etc.