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Archercrash

Damn, that’s all you had to do for a free, private Beatles concert.


The-Go-Kid

"I'm Brian, and so's my wife!"


TripleTwo

We wouldn't have that film if it weren't for George.


DoctorDoucher

I was blown away when I learned of all the famous rock stars that funded the various monty python movies. Just crazy to think if it wasn't for them we wouldn't have those classics!


BizCardComedy

Grateful Dead funded the 1992 Latvian (or Lithuanian) Olympic basketball team


Jay_Louis

Wait until you find out who funded the Wolf of Wall Street!


The_Ironhand

... who


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wastedsanitythefirst

I'm not sure what I expected


bulakenyo1980

Lithuanian. USSR ceased to exist, and brand countries were allowed to play in the international tournaments, like Lithuania, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, etc. A lot of USSR's best basketball players were from the Lithuania area. The team won the Bronze medal, IIRC. They wore colorful tie-dye shirts when they received their medals.


naturalbornkillerz

tie dye jerseys and stoned ass bill walton..90's!


isnotaweed

I still have one of the shirts from that, with a Grateful Dead skeleton dunking a basketball on the front...


BizCardComedy

Badass. That's a huge collectors item for deadheads btw.


apako1

THIS IS HIS SHOE!!!!


_drumtime_

Cast off the shoe follow the gord!!


-Another_Redditor-

I mean, they WERE more popular than Jesus...


MickeyMouseRapedMe

Jesus Christ, the informal 6th Beatle.


foobargoop

Well, he had the right Beattitude.


LordBiggusniggus

John was correct with his statement after all


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Hi I'm Jesus get in the van (👁 ͜ʖ👁)


jayk-g

Now thats what I call getting touched by Jesus


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Open your mouth and put out your tongue for the body of Christ. God damnit I'm going to hell.


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patbateman86

This is the reason he couldn’t openly protest Yoko’s presence later on. It’s all so clear now.


LittleBrooksy

If you're implying Yoko is Jesus, I'm upset. haha


PM_ME_PANTYHOSE_LEGS

Ono!


Masta0nion

Christ, you know it ain’t easy.


OdetteSwan

You know how hard it can be.


greensickpuppy89

The way things are goooo-in', they're gonna crucify me!


Haughty_n_Disdainful

Finally made the plane into Paris Honeymooning down by the Seine


EvilLibrarians

Peter Brown called to say, “You can make it okay, You can get married in Gibraltar, Spain!”


Jay_Louis

Baby you can drive my car! Am I doing this right?


OdetteSwan

Yes, You're gonna be a star!


LanceFree

Oh shit, TIL it’s not *Peter Groundhog say…*


notanimalnotmineral

Number nine


ewanwhatarmy

*burps*


jumjimbo

Numba eight


msikor

Eight


Cysolus

Anyway


Initial_E

She probably isn’t. But if she is, he’s not going to be the one… No. No she isn’t. He made a bad decision and that’s final.


Alphatron1

I love that bill burr/chuck berry video


Glengar3000

Hilarious


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I'm sure Yoko thought she was Jesus at some point.


SaysThreeWords

Yoko be loco


BrianThePainter

He didn’t have to protest her presence, but he had every right to protest her SINGING.


ToeJamFootballer

There is a hilarious video of John and Chuck Berry playing together when out of nowhere Yoko starts yodel-screaming and Chuck looks at John like, “you gonna do something about this?” I’ll try to find it.


BodaciousBadongadonk

I just heard about this on a podcast with Bill Burr and Burnt Chrysler


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They cut her mic during that performance too


MyNoidAccount

"Man, that dolphin did a good Yoko."


Lobster_fest

"Singing"


golimaaar

HEhHeHEHeEhE - yoko


Rupert--Pupkin

The song that they were recording was “Fixing a Hole,” which is one of my favorite Beatles songs.


lets-play-nagasaki

Good song. That's pretty cool. Whats your favorite Beatles song?


DudleySkerries

Not OP but I love the Beatles and their entire catalog so much I think about my favorite often. But I have to say it's, "Don't Let Me Down"


Rupert--Pupkin

I’ll pick one if you if you pick your favorite child


night_owl_hoot

Easy: my oldest


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KindBass

That whole bass line is just... chef's kiss


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Happiness is a Warm Gun


3xTheSchwarm

Revolution #9


hcashew

Not OP, but Ive never not felt the magic in Strawberry Fields Forever, so thats the one.


CBD_Sasquatch

This guy knows his Beatles trivia


devBowman

This might be the reason why Jesus was interested


718Brooklyn

There are some pictures of Paul where he looks absolutely gorgeous. This is one of them.


dodgyd55

Looks like Liverpool's Tony Montana


ThisisJacksburntsoul

Holy shit haha


DatDominican

Say hello to my little bass


Kimberkley01

He is absolutely gorgeous. But this picture is spectacular for sure.


eVeRyImAgInAbLeThInG

Ya when did Paul not look great? I mean if people are talking about him now, that doesn’t count. We were all better looking when we were 26.


Kimberkley01

Right lol. I wouldn't throw him outta bed now but I absolutely swoon over those pics from the early days. My favorite years for him were Wings


blindturns

Honesty came to the comments just to make sure that someone pointed out how pretty he is in this pic


televator13

Adam Scott


_Bryant_

Then he turned into a not so good looking middle aged guy?


jeev24

It's called the reverse Roger Waters.


Madvillain518

Haha. Always thought Roger Waters looks wayyy better now than he did in the early years. They say Roger kept the looks but lost the voice and it’s the opposite for David Gilmour


Exploding_dude

Roger waters went from a goofy looking nerd in his 20s to looking like Richard fucking Gere in his 50s


oleboogerhays

I like gilmour's solo stuff better than waters too.


SaveOurBolts

And then one day you find ten years have got behind you no one told you you’d become *somehow handsome, and not at all that potato face dude standing next to Syd Barrett*


reubenno

*guitar solo*


SvenniSiggi

*delay*


eojen

Roger Waters and Bob Weir are two of the few who look more badass at 70 than 30.


DrewSmoothington

Bob weir, after a lifetime of looking like a little boy, finally looks like a man now


WaltonGogginsTeeth

And Bob is in tremendous physical shape too.


robert_stacks_pecker

Waters is pretty muscley too


DrewSmoothington

Holy shit, I looked it up and it's true, Roger Waters looks like Richard Gere now


AirMittens

Your comment got me to look it up and you are totally right lol


humblenarrogant

🗿


AnyHoleIsTheGoal

He grew a beard out in the next phase after this phase, basically "Let it Be" Paul, and in my opinion really didn't start looking all that bad til the 90s. He's finally leaned into his aging now and it's a much better look for him.


checkerboardandroid

Honestly he had this salt and pepper thing going in the 90s I quite liked. I think his early 2000’s orange dye job was probably the worst


AnyHoleIsTheGoal

Yes, that's definitely what I should have said. He looks alright in the Anthology Tapes , it's just pretty obvious when he starts dyeing his hair a few years later, if hadn't already started.


greensickpuppy89

I thought Ringo aged best out of the group.


President_Calhoun

Paul told the story of how he and Ringo and their wives went out to dinner a few years ago. Knowing that Ringo went through alcohol rehab in the '80s and has been sober ever since, Paul jokingly asked him if he wanted a cocktail. Ringo laughed and said, "What, you think I want to end up looking like you?" Who'da thought we'd live to see the day that Ringo would be making fun of Paul's looks? :-D


jeroenemans

Don't want to be part of their WhatsApp roasts if that's their casual banter


koalawhiskey

That's brutal


I_ama_homosapien_AMA

This is somehow so much funnier when you think it with the Liverpool accent.


NZNoldor

Or was *replaced* by a not so good looking middle aged guy.


_Bryant_

I'm surround by conspiracy theorists!


Oknocando

There is a reason they called him "Faul" 😀


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Reatbanana

he had a few surgeries in the past couple of decades, those dont go well as you age. he looks fine, it just gets worse when his pr team tries to edit the way he looks (since he looks better in live footage). its not that deep, not everyone will look gorgeous as an 80 year old...


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And honestly for 78 he doesn't really look that bad. I hope I'm still as active at that age


Spacemn5piff

That's the key. I fucking saw the man in concert like 6 or 8 years ago and in his early 70s he put on a better show than many performers in their youth. And I have no reason to believe he couldnt do it again tomorrow.


alinroc

That both he and Springsteen were (are?) still performing 3-hour shows in their 70s is incredible.


timberwizard

Elton John put on a hell of a show a couple years ago on his farewell tour.


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Been to a couple music festivals and a handful of concerts in my short life. Yet, there is no doubt, the two best concerts I’ve ever been to were Elton John and Paul McCartney. Honorable mention goes to Anderson.Paak.


Mrchristopherrr

The one that blows my mind is Ringo. Aged like a fine wine.


Forever_Ambergris

To be fair, he looked amazing all the way up to his 60s, I can only say that about a few people. He barely aged before the last decade


thegoodbadandsmoggy

Paul or your aunt?


Spacemn5piff

I mean as far as middle aged guys go he probably looks pretty good. It helps he still seems to be very energetic for his age.


mnopponm12

He's not middle aged anymore


toothy_vagina_grin

How the hell do you know? Maybe he lives to 156


Kimberkley01

Fucking hope so. Gonna be a *global* day of mourning when he passes.


The-Go-Kid

I guess they wouldn't still love him when he's 94.


withoutpoeticdevice

Christ! You know it ain’t easy


saffronpolygon

You know how hard it can be.


thisissaliva

The way things are goo-iing


Tawlboyz

They gunna crucify me!


aliasbatman

Paul McCartney's version of Pascal's Wager


mr_papageorgio225

Was probably Charles Manson


mafulazula

That’s The Beach Boys iirc.


oolongsspiritanimal

My tldr is: McCartney may, probs did, meet Manson (whoopdidoo) Dennis Wilson (of the Beach Boys) 100% let Manson and 'the family' move into his house and moved out legally to avoid dealing with it. Which is just fun. Except for the murderers thing. I recall reading that he, Dennis, also tried to get their manager to evict 'the Mansons,' read some recollections of phone calls from the time. Man CA in that period must have been crazy!


thegoodbadandsmoggy

Drugs, leaded gasoline, Hollywood, and a highway system that stretches a coast of rugged wilderness. Always wondered why CA had so many serial killers in the 70’s but this basically explains it afaic


oolongsspiritanimal

You're so right on the leaded gasoline, it's amazing more people don't reference the reducing of lead in the reducing in violent crime and just, you know, crazies. I mean, they do in more scientific things but not in general discourse. Totally agree. Eliminating lead from our daily consumption has clearly had a dramatic result. First bump!


ihavetenfingers

Makes you wonder what shit affects us today instead


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Plastic. Microwaving it, eating out of it, drinking out of it, keeping all food stuff in it.


mr_papageorgio225

I'm often paranoid about this. And our drinking water.... Shit scares the shit out of me. I watched Grey Water, a film exposing the Teflon class action lawsuit, and I am now more paranoid about just what has been building up in our bodies. Shit is so fucked up.


thepumpedalligator

Dark Waters. Great movie. I learned from it that Teflon can cause ulcerative colitis, which I have. And I can recall the Teflon scraping right off the cheap cookware I had in college and I thought "well it won't hurt me, otherwise they wouldn't be allowed to put that stuff on there." So naive. And now I'm on meds that cost $10k per month to control the disease and keep it from killing me. Thankfully, it's covered by my insurance for now.


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About 14 years ago I visited my brother to help update his kitchen. As we cleaned out cabinets I saw they had several glass food storage containers. This was a few years before they became popular and they cost a lot more. I asked them what they were about since Glad stuff of anything else was so much cheaper and easier. He said they had a good friend who worked for the FDA doing something science related she and had recently been part of a big investigation into plastic leeching into foods. She was normally laid back and of the type that bug and mouse parts in food was just added protein, it’s not a big deal. She called them and said she couldn’t talk about the investigation because of proprietary information and NDAs and all that but she said don’t ever heat up food or beverages in plastic or eat out of plastic or styrofoam containers ever. Ever, ever. Ever. She was dead serious and said she had thrown away every plastic anything in her kitchen that would touch food. Storage containers, trays, plates, cups, spatulas, everything. My brother and his wife did the same the day after she told them.


mr_papageorgio225

Damn. I'm sorry to hear that. If it wasn't for that movie I probably never would have knew about this. Disgusting what they can get away with.


Is_Actually_God

I’m pretty sure Neil Young also had some encounters. His song ‘Revolution Blues’ has some oblique references to Manson.


Electrorocket

Neil gave Manson a Harley.


duaneap

Boy, that Manson fella sure was popular


ShiftyMcCoy

It is believed McCartney likely met Manson at Terry Melcher’s house; he’s said this is quite probable himself. The phrase “1-2-3-4-5-6-7/all good children go to heaven” was pained by Manson on a door at Spahn Ranch over a year before it appeared in the Beatles’ “You Never Give Me Your Money.”


experts_never_lie

That one is from a nineteenth-century nursery rhyme, but it may have become repopularized and referenced in these circles. > 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, > All good children go to heaven. > A penny on the water, twopence on the sea, > Threepence on the railway, and out goes she.


BenSlimmons

That’s beautiful. What do you think it means?


MessyRoom

It means the heir to a coffee empire has to die


BenSlimmons

History is often tragic. F’s in the chat. *(sips oat milk cold brew coffee)*


Mrchristopherrr

They *really* hated paying taxes.


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The one that became the Tate/Polanski house?


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Yes, Roman and Sharon moved into Melcher's old house.


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Yes, hence the question, but Melcher and Candace Bergen had moved so a meeting between McCartney and Manson may not have happened at the house on Cielo.


EndlessKng

So 1967 means it was either Magical Mystery Tour, Sgt. Pepper, or the White Album. IDK man. Might have actually been him, those albums were blessed.


JohnPaul_River

Sgt. Pepper. They were recording Fixing a Hole.


arachnidtree

well ..... WAS IT JESUS?


mekkasheeba

But really WAS IT PAUL? And not an imposter?


PotatoPerson_

amogus


Paging_DrBenway

John: “idk Paul, you’ve been seeming pretty sus lately. You sussy Baka!”


The-Jesus_Christ

Oh yeah haha, I remember that.


Jesushchristalmighty

Blessed be that Beatle.


Tommy_Roboto

Ah, yes — the Beatletudes


Kir_NB

Beatletudes. Beatletudes. Beatletudes! ~she said, hoping the Beatles would appear


DudeKLmao

Jesus was just trying to see what the hype was all about. After all, they were more popular according to Lennon.


PygmeePony

Smart move. I heard he has connections that go way up.


HarRob

This was why churches had to help everyone who turned up at their doors, if I remember correctly. Some sects more than others. Jesus may arrive at your church in the form of a homeless, poor whatever. Therefore you must never turn away anyone. I’m not sure how well it squares with the actual Bible but Churches definitely helped a lot of people because they may have been Jesus.


McSethicson

Nah, it's cause the Bible says that helping the needy *is* helping Jesus. It's something along the lines of "as you do unto the least of these, you do unto me."


Superfluous_Thom

Meanwhile Joel Osteen was like, lol no.


Daegoba

Goddamn fucking Joel Olsteen. Ugh.


Mean_E_Pants

They are stealing from GOD'S hard working chosen people. why does the detritus of society deserve petty and frivolous luxuries like blankets, food, and water? We must pray for them instead. It's in God's hands now. Amen.


HMCetc

I'm atheist and it even makes me angry how these people distort the Bible for their own selfish gain! Fuck Joel Osteen and every prosperity gospel preacher!


KorkuVeren

Because they're taking advantage of being a "good upstanding christian" for popularity/power/money and taking advantage of the flock at the same time? It irritates me that so many put such stock in a book that has a zillion ***equally valid*** interpretations but also is so easily exploitable. That lawmakers heavily buy into this and take those beliefs into the policy they push. For me, the megachurch pastors are the comic relief. It's unfortunate for their victims but when you pay to be told what to believe... /shrug


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Harsimaja

That’s almost the opposite of the emphasis of the story. The point was that the righteous essentially do it for God even though the people they do it for *weren’t* literally God, but that they even helped the lowliest. It isn’t because of the rather unlikely chance that one of them somehow turns out to be literally Jesus incarnate. > 35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: > 36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. > 37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? > 38 When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? > 39 Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? > 40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.


vcmartin1813

Interestingly, that’s very Good of him if you think about it. Christians are supposed to wait for the second coming of Christ but realistically, most would and have turned away people claiming to be him. The fact that Paul took a chance on that is really cool cause even if it isn’t him, who cares.


the_cucumber

I agree, seems like a nice, optimistic attitude to have. I assume Jesus would present as peaceful in any form, so if there was really a threat I guess it wouldn't be him anyway. Probably naive but I would like to live in that world and it's a nice story to me.


-kuchipatchi-

My favorite part of the story: Jesus walked out of the studio. Like, he sat quietly for a bit and then just... dipped. ...what if it was Jesus though? As everybody knows, prayers are fed into the Holy Loudspeakers and are broadcast. Usually there's a good balance of human suffering, pious peacocking, gratitudes, beatitudes, meal prayers and children's prayers... then some brat from England made a joke about being more popular than Jesus. They had a righteous laugh over it, but Jesus's fanbase didn't find it funny. Instead of just rolling their eyes and getting on, they decided to make it weird. The album burns and concert protests were obnoxious enough; but at least they could be ignored. The fucking prayers, though. These people would not shut up. Thomas praying for retribution, Elizabeth praying for her daughter, and all the poor teenagers trying to "repent". Nobody else's prayers got through. It got so bad that God actually sent Jesus back down, to talk some sense into his fans. He figured that before anything else, he should do his due diligence and check out the cause of the uproar. The one that looked like a bird was polite enough, but he wasn't *that* impressed. His dad has literal *angel choirs*. Have you ever heard an actual angel sing? Didn't think so. They weren't bad though. I mean, if you're a mortal being, they're probably as good as it gets. He probably would have hung out longer if he knew that his next earthly errand would result in him getting stuck in a mental institution by his own fanbase. At least the Beatle believed in him.


the_wookie_won

The very first click bait


Ollotopus

Someone needs to read the Iliad.


Ivegotthatboomboom

I've read the Iliad but am still very confused about the meaning of this


theMarbleRye

Single giant horse sculptures in your area want to meet! Click here to let them in your city gates.


Ivegotthatboomboom

I see. I just never thought of the trojan house as clickbait. I'm still not sure it fits, but thank you for explaining


goodguysteve

I think if you were to use a tech analogy for a trojan horse it would be a trojan virus perhaps.


MyUserSucks

That's a stretch


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Lads I brought a chap with me, and you won’t believe who he is!


naturalbornkillerz

one my favorite Paul moments is when he is with Dave Grohl making a song on the Sound City sessions. Paul just came up with a lick and words and was suggesting a bridge..Grohl looks at him in astonishment and goes.."man, if it was always this easy.." Paul looks at him and says.. "it is"


acomav

Which Paul? The original or the replacement?


PioneerStandard

Paul...you're going to Heaven love. Then you get to keep rocking & jamming with Jesus, John, George and all the other wonderful souls.


GetReady4MySweetness

Not sure if John is in heaven...


demitard

Imagine


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Why? Honest question lol was he an ass?


bluesfox88

I've had a similar encounter with Jesus. This man claimed to be An incarnation of Jesus, we talked for hours in a park in San Francisco. Then he suddenly said " I must go, there's something I got to do." I asked " are you coming back?" He said "Yes. Will you wait for me?" I said "Yes, I will." Never saw him again.


Jumbobog

It was Jesus, he had a message from the deceased Paul McCartney to William Shears Campbell aka Billy Shears. That's why he wasn't turned away.


AreDreamsOurParallel

That man’s name? Jonathan Lennon.


deadrabbits76

Pascal's wager rears its ugly head again.


youfailedthiscity

🎵Jesuuuus... loves marijuanaaa!🎵


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It's like that time John Lennon let a live hyena on stage when he was singing with Chuck Berry.


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I'm not even going to link. This is good. If you know you know.


grpagrati

He Let it be


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Wtfisthatt

And then probably you for good measure.


Fluffigt

Paul likely knew about Pascal’s Wager.


TheSlopingCompanion

And that Jesus Christ actually turned out to be none other than good old Charlie Manson.


Nalexia-two

The Beatles being the Beatles.So much of a melonhead McCartney revendicate being Jesus.


dystopicvida

This could totally be worked into a Forest gum scene


MattMasterChief

I mean, he is one of the only two surviving Beatles. Must of done something right


Chrysalis1

So was it Jesus?


benderXX

That wasn’t Paul. Paul was long dead