This isn't a fan photo at all. But it is one that I like. Here is Paul speaking to the press about his broken engagement to Jane Asher in 1968. He is at his father's home, Rembrandt.
Good for Paul? Paul wasn't the one to break up with Jane Asher,she left him because she came home unexpectedly early from touring with her theatre company and found Paul in bed with another woman and Jane and Paul had been lovers since April 1963 just a few weeks after she turned 17 and Paul turned 21 2 months later,and they were engaged to be married for 7 months at the time when she found him with the other woman in their bed in July 1968.
Alistair Taylor one of Brian Epstein's assistants and friends,and a friend of Paul's said in his 2003 book,Yesterday:My Life With The Beatles,that Paul was devastated and in very bad depression after Jane left him and he would call Alistair at 1 in the morning and ask him to come over,other times he would come over his house at this hour and wake Alistair and his wife out of their sleep.
And Paul cried a lot,and drank liquor hard,and Paul told him how much he loved and needed Jane,and how she wasn't just his woman but his closest friend.Paul said he opened up everything inside himself to Jane,including about his pain from his mother Mary dying when he was only 14 and he dealt with that,and that Jane knows what makes him tick.
Even after he had met Linda three times,including spending a weekend with her in LA in June 1968,he tried very hard for a while to get Jane to forgive him and take him back.But all his letters were returned unopened,and all of his phone calls were ignored,so there was nothing that he could do. Jane understandably was very hurt,shocked,betrayed,and couldn't forgive and trust him again and she had self respect and self esteem.
Paul wrote a lot of beautiful love songs about and for Jane,and a lot of great songs about the arguments they had which were all his fault because he was being sexist and selfish and wrongly often pressuring her to give up her acting career and just totally devote herself to him,and she rightly refused,she said she loved acting and she had been doing it since she was in her first film at age 5,and she said she didn't want to give it up.
I once read an online article many years ago and I don't remember who it was by,but it was by a rock music critic that said that Paul wrote Let It Be after he had a vivid realistic dream where he saw his mother Mary alive after she had been dead for 12 years,and she told him just to accept things as they are,and that he also wrote The Long And Winding Road,soon after Jane left him,and they are both sad songs.
It makes sense that Paul would write Let It Be soon after Jane left him because his mother was the first very significant woman he loved who left him,and Jane was the second.
Here is a very good 1999 E! True Hollywood Story,The Beatles Wives which has interviews with people close to them and explains how truly sexually wild The Beatles were,especially the early Beatles during their touring years with their totally fake cleaned up image wearing the suits and ties many of these were young women groupies, many who were just teen girls who were screaming in their concerts, and in addition to all of the affairs with women they had while John,George and Ringo were married to their first wives and Paul had his girlfriend British actress Jane Asher since April 1963 just 2 weeks after she turned 17 years old and Paul was 2 months away from turning 21 and who became his fiancé on Christmas day 1967.
Then in early July 1968 Jane came home unexpectedly early from touring with her theatre company and she found Paul in their bed with another woman and she ran out of the house and Paul’s life forever devastated. On July 20,she announced on the popular BBC talk show Dee Time,that her engagement to Paul was off and they had been lovers for 5 years and they were engaged for 7 months by then.
All of this was totally left out of Ron Howard's totally sanitized inaccurate Eight Days A Week: The Touring Years documentary.
Good for him!! Forget Jane; Linda is the best woman he was ever with!
ReplyDeleteGood for Paul? Paul wasn't the one to break up with Jane Asher,she left him because she came home unexpectedly early from touring with her theatre company and found Paul in bed with another woman and Jane and Paul had been lovers since April 1963 just a few weeks after she turned 17 and Paul turned 21 2 months later,and they were engaged to be married for 7 months at the time when she found him with the other woman in their bed in July 1968.
DeleteAlistair Taylor one of Brian Epstein's assistants and friends,and a friend of Paul's said in his 2003 book,Yesterday:My Life With The Beatles,that Paul was devastated and in very bad depression after Jane left him and he would call Alistair at 1 in the morning and ask him to come over,other times he would come over his house at this hour and wake Alistair and his wife out of their sleep.
And Paul cried a lot,and drank liquor hard,and Paul told him how much he loved and needed Jane,and how she wasn't just his woman but his closest friend.Paul said he opened up everything inside himself to Jane,including about his pain from his mother Mary dying when he was only 14 and he dealt with that,and that Jane knows what makes him tick.
Even after he had met Linda three times,including spending a weekend with her in LA in June 1968,he tried very hard for a while to get Jane to forgive him and take him back.But all his letters were returned unopened,and all of his phone calls were ignored,so there was nothing that he could do. Jane understandably was very hurt,shocked,betrayed,and couldn't forgive and trust him again and she had self respect and self esteem.
Paul wrote a lot of beautiful love songs about and for Jane,and a lot of great songs about the arguments they had which were all his fault because he was being sexist and selfish and wrongly often pressuring her to give up her acting career and just totally devote herself to him,and she rightly refused,she said she loved acting and she had been doing it since she was in her first film at age 5,and she said she didn't want to give it up.
I once read an online article many years ago and I don't remember who it was by,but it was by a rock music critic that said that Paul wrote Let It Be after he had a vivid realistic dream where he saw his mother Mary alive after she had been dead for 12 years,and she told him just to accept things as they are,and that he also wrote The Long And Winding Road,soon after Jane left him,and they are both sad songs.
It makes sense that Paul would write Let It Be soon after Jane left him because his mother was the first very significant woman he loved who left him,and Jane was the second.
https://janeashersource.tumblr.com/post/180597293425/amoralto-when-it-ended-it-was-awful-jane-came
Here is a very good 1999 E! True Hollywood Story,The Beatles Wives which has interviews with people close to them and explains how truly sexually wild The Beatles were,especially the early Beatles during their touring years with their totally fake cleaned up image wearing the suits and ties many of these were young women groupies, many who were just teen girls who were screaming in their concerts, and in addition to all of the affairs with women they had while John,George and Ringo were married to their first wives and Paul had his girlfriend British actress Jane Asher since April 1963 just 2 weeks after she turned 17 years old and Paul was 2 months away from turning 21 and who became his fiancé on Christmas day 1967.
DeleteThen in early July 1968 Jane came home unexpectedly early from touring with her theatre company and she found Paul in their bed with another woman and she ran out of the house and Paul’s life forever devastated. On July 20,she announced on the popular BBC talk show Dee Time,that her engagement to Paul was off and they had been lovers for 5 years and they were engaged for 7 months by then.
All of this was totally left out of Ron Howard's totally sanitized inaccurate Eight Days A Week: The Touring Years documentary.
Here is the show on my channel,
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiyQgp9kn-7OkOkAIrxTezg
thanks
DeleteGood for her!! Forget Paul; Jane gave him the freedom to be a Beatle and with Linda it was all downhill from there
ReplyDeleteHow long does it take to get comments posted on here?
ReplyDeleteI check at least once every 24 hours, sometimes more frequently.
DeleteDoes Paul still own Rembrant/have it as his Liverpool base?
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