thebeatlesordie:

Happy Anniversary, Lennon and McCartney.

↳ Who met 57 years ago today on July 6th, 1957. 

“I first met John on a thing called The Woolton Village Fete and I showed up there with his friend and my friend, a guy called Ivan. And we were backstage, they’d done a little set in the afternoon and they were getting ready to do one in the evening and John was loosening up a little bit, and he’d had a bit of a beer and I was pretty young and as he leaned over towards me he had this beery breath and I though “Oh dear, nu-uh”. I wasn’t impressed at all. What happened was we all started playing little bits and pieces sort of to impress each other. And I borrowed a right handed guitar- most of my friends would play right handed, obviously, and I had to learn how to play it upside down. So, I sort of did something- I did ‘Twenty Flight Rock’ by Eddie Cochran. And what happened was, John was quite impressed. I think it was just cause I knew all the words and that was like really cool in those days, to know all the words to ‘Twenty Flight Rock’. So, I played it for him and apperantly that’s what got me in The Beatles.“ -Paul McCartney

thebeatlesordie:

For I have got another girl,
who will love me till the end
Through thick and thin,
she will always be my friend.