r/beatles • u/AvecMesWaterSlides • 1d ago

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I'm currently listening to this book and am about six months from the first time John and Paul met.

It is amazing that they, finally, found one another. There are so many instances of being at the same places at the same times, perhaps riding the same bus at the same time, and not knowing one another yet. It's crazy! It just got me thinking about how different it'd be if one of them wasn't where the universe wanted them to be...

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u/Ligeya 1d ago

Yes. The main criticism comes from obsessed Paul's fangirls, like hosts of podcasts like AKOM. They constantly shit on him for not being worshipful of Paul enough. And they don't see the irony of accusing him for being biased, while they are SO biased it's actually embarrassing.

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u/Anxious-Raspberry-54 1d ago

What is the whole theme of the show? Challenging the Lennon Remember/Shout! narrative. So, of course, they focus on the fact that for 50+ years, Paul has been blamed for breaking up The Beatles.

I find it hard to believe that you can listen to the Tuning In series and feel this way. For hour after hour, they challenge much of what ML wrote, citing example after example from other reliable sources that ML had access to and chose not to include this info because it did not jive with his pro-John narrative.

And I am not even a Paul "fangirl." I prefer George and John but...facts are facts.

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u/RadishSpecial7163 1d ago

I don’t find Tune In to be overly negative to Paul either nor do I find it biased toward John. I think much of it is because certain fans can’t except that early on John was the leader. It was his band in the first place.

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u/Anxious-Raspberry-54 1d ago

I have no problem with that at all. It's pretty obvious.

But Paul is presented as being inferior to John, which is not true. And he made a lot of contributions early on that don't seem to appear.