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10.08pm
4 November 2010
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vonbontee said:
Pretty funny how Sitar Soul didn't know about that other thread! I agree that those long “Is it A or B?” threads are pretty pointless and counterproductive. But I can't go as far as some of you and claim that I don't care, because I DO care; I like to know the facts about who played/sang what. Not that I have any personal stake in either camp – like, I would'nt be disappointed (or relieved) to learn that it was actually Ringo, not Paul drumming on “Dear Prudence “. But I still want to know.
This sounds like the start of another thread. If you could ask Paul or Ringo one question…
6.36am
29 September 2010
Offline You're ALL wrong: It's Billy J. Kramer! Sheesh! Ohhhhh….different version…..sorrrrry…..
I thought they all had colds when they recorded the PPM album, PLUS they'd been recording all day: could that explain George's raspiness?
4.30pm
14 December 2009
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CranberrySauce said:
If you could ask Paul or Ringo one question…
“The movement I need is on my shoulder?? What does that mean?!”
(One question wouldn't do it – I've got dozens!}
Paul: Yeah well… first of all, we’re bringing out a ‘Stamp Out Detroit’ campaign.
7.03pm
1 May 2010
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I'd ask Paul “Would you marry me?” 
I'd ask Ringo “Would you marry me? Oh wait you're already married” 
Here comes the sun….. Scoobie-doobie……
Something in the way she moves…..attracts me like a cauliflower…
Bop. Bop, cat bop. Go, Johnny, Go.
Beware of Darkness…
8.41am
10 November 2009
Offline Why would John sang just that bit? 
It's George. No doubt. Also some people says that Devil In Her Heart was sang by John and not George. 
For me, both songs are George. 
Let me take you down 'cause I'm going to...Strawberry Fields.
1.07pm
13 November 2009
Offline I was listening to Cry Baby Cry yesterday, and the opening lines sound a bit like George. I think they had similar voices.
Ad hoc, ad loc, and quid pro quo! So little time! So much to know!
1.48pm
8 April 2010
Offline Sheik of Araby sounds a bit like Paul in some parts
3.53pm
6 October 2012
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First, this is an amazing site! Thanks to those who helped on my first question posted just 8 days ago. I only created my account late last week and it feels great to be surrounded by kindred spirits. Almost more importantly, I’m so grateful to be in touch with those who are actually bigger fans of THE BEATLES than I am and can answer some of my Fab Four questions.
Now, my next questions. While taking back to back “Magical Mystery Tours” on consecutive days in Liverpool during the summer of 2000, the tour guides claimed that John Lennon wrote “Do You Want To Know A Secret ?” based on a line that Cynthia Lennon used to him to broach the subject of Brian Epstein’s homosexuality. “Listen, Do You Want To Know A Secret ?”
I know that John says that he based the song on “Wishing Well” from “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”. He also wrote the song while living in Brian’s “secret” apartment that had been previously used for homosexual liaisons.
It’s not really possible that John didn’t know that Brian was gay by late 1962 or early 1963.
Therefore, is it believable that Cynthia didn’t realize that John knew about Brian’s homosexuality when they first got married and moved into Brian’s apartment? Maybe she just didn’t know about the prior purpose of where she was currently living.
Were my “Magical Mystery Tour ” guides embellishing the truth?
Could John and Cynthia living in Brian’s “secret” apartment sparked the writing of the song – the secret being the apartment itself and not Brian’s sexual orientation? Or the fact that the rest of the world didn’t know about Brian?
How plausible is it that John gave the song to George Harrison to sing since he may have wanted to divert any more attention from Brian than he was already getting? (I know that this is a stretch and they wanted to give George a song for “Please Please Me “, but now I’m beginning to wonder.)
OK, leave it to the new “Beatles Bible” member from San Francisco to ask such questions, but if I was led astray by my Liverpool tour guides, I’d like to know.
Thanks in advance for your help!
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4.56pm
25 September 2012
Offline I am new as well, and really enjoy this site and forum. I had been reading the site for about a year before I made my account and its a great place. Also love any questions because we get to see what people who have been die-hard Beatle fans for longer then I have been alive, and well I get to put my two cents in so its nice.
I think it sounds like embellishment, but thats just my take on it all. John may have been inspired by all of those factors but unfortunately we will never know beyond what has already been said =/
6.25pm
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1 May 2011
Offline I think its pure fabrication personally and have no reason to doubt John’s account of being inspired by his mother singing the line when younger. John was candid about most things throughout the 70’s so why not that. There is nothing more to George singing DYWTKAS than John giving him a song to sing, i dont think John felt he could sing it himself anyway, tho neither did George when looking back on it.
All the beatles knew Brian was gay early on in their time together but were more intrigued than anything, it certainly wasnt an issue.
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9.49am
31 March 2008
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Hi Fab4Fan. I’ve never heard that story before, and (for all it’s worth) I’ve read as many quotes and interviews by The Beatles about their songs as I can get my hands on. However, in Liverpool there’s a strong tradition of folklore, and stories you won’t hear anywhere else get passed around, so it *may* be true. Alternatively (and I mean this quite affectionately), the Scousers can bullshit like the best of them, so I’d be tempted to put it in the fabrication category.
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4.01pm
13 April 2011
Offline Hi – yes I’ve heard this story before too, and the subject of possible BE/JL gay relationship it comes up quite a lot in the latest JL biography, and indeed that the song title at least is about this.
Let’s not forget the two went off on holiday togtether just after Julian was born, leaving poor Cynth at home with the new-born!
4.13pm
3 May 2012
Offline I don’t think there was anything to that though. John and Brian were good friends, as well as colleagues of sort. Nobody says anything when anybody else goes on holiday with their friend/s, so why is this any different?
The only thing that I have heard from a reliable source (or something close) is that John was inspired by the start of the Disney song, and that’s the only thing I’m likely to believe.
Moving along in our God given ways, safety is sat by the fire/Sanctuary from these feverish smiles, left with a mark on the door.
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4.16pm
13 April 2011
Offline Well song title/inspiration there are all sorts of stories really … even the fact that BE kileld himself is that his love for JL was unrequited, or even that he pushed and promoted them so hard at the beginning becuase he was so ‘in love’ with them.
4.25pm
3 May 2012
Offline Sitting on a cornflake said
Well song title/inspiration there are all sorts of stories really … even the fact that BE kileld himself is that his love for JL was unrequited, or even that he pushed and promoted them so hard at the beginning becuase he was so ‘in love’ with them.
Yeah I’ve heard all kinds of things – it’s really quite amusing reading them all.
And I’m sure that Brian did push them a lot. I would say that it was because he could see a good buisness oportunity in them though.
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4.27pm
13 April 2011
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4.53pm
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1 May 2011
Offline Sorry but stories about a possible requited love relationship experience between John and Brian are complete and utter garbage. The stories have been going for years based on little more than rumour, titilation and selling power, at least since when Bob Wooler made insinuations to a drunk John at a birthday party in 1963 and John battered him senseless.
If something had of happened the beatles would have known and it would have come out at some point, probably during the Anthology, or John would have said something – and all that John said was that Brian was in love with him. In the Anthology book John is quoted as saying that on all that happened on holiday was that John and Brian would sit in cafes and John would say “does he turn you on?” (not a direct quote) and that whilst it was an intense relationship it was never consumated.
I actually think its quite insulting the idea that something had to happen because they went on holiday together. That 2 men, one gay the other not, cannot go on holiday together without them having sex.
The idea that Brian topped himself due to being helplessly in love with John. What next? People believing Paul died and was replaced by a lookalike? Oh. Erm. Maybe there are clues in the songs; one of those authors should spend their nights and days finding out – would save rubbish being printed.
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6.51am
25 August 2012
Offline Sitting on a cornflake said
Hi – yes I’ve heard this story before too, and the subject of possible BE/JL gay relationship it comes up quite a lot in the latest JL biography, and indeed that the song title at least is about this.Let’s not forget the two went off on holiday togtether just after Julian was born, leaving poor Cynth at home with the new-born!
And, months later at Pau’s 21st birthday party, John beat the shit out of some guy who implied that said holiday was some sort of clandestine homosexual affair. 
As for leaving Cynthia alone with Julian, I’m still inclined to believe they never would have married had John not knocked her up. Ironically, shortly before that, Paul had been in the same situation with his then-girlfriend Dot Rhone, but ultimately called off the engagement once she had a miscarriage.
And what’s this about Brian killing himself? I always thought his overdose was ruled as accidental, a la Heath Ledger’s.
1.33pm
31 March 2008
Offline He had at least one suicide attempt before then. There was a note, to his mother I think.
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12.23pm
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1 May 2011
Offline Where is there no question mark at the end of the title? Surely it should be ‘Do You Want To Know A Secret ?’.
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